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Books

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The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
Sara Kabir
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM The Shelf
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What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM What to read
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Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
Najmus Sakib
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM Non-fiction review
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Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
Touseful Islam
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM Literature
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Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
Rufaiya Zia Nuha
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM Books & Literature
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Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
Namrata
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM ⁠⁠Features
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Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
Dowel Biswas
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM Culture
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Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
Safiul Azam Mahfuz
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM Books & Literature
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An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
Emran Mahfuz
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM Books & Literature
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
Nawshin Flora
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM Books

Philip Hensher wins Royal Society Prize …for novel set in Bangladesh

19 May 2013, 18:00 PM

A contemplative bard reflects

19 May 2013, 18:00 PM

Darjeeling: demographic ivide

13 May 2013, 20:04 PM

Swindlers on the prowl

13 May 2013, 20:02 PM

Is there light at the end?

13 May 2013, 20:01 PM

Missives out of a war . . .

12 May 2013, 18:15 PM

Just cooked corpses

12 May 2013, 18:00 PM

Indian President launches Tagore book

12 May 2013, 18:00 PM

. . . Tales of the piercing kind

12 May 2013, 18:00 PM

Behind the celluloid tales

10 May 2013, 18:00 PM

Tagore and nationalism

10 May 2013, 18:00 PM

When Ocampo met Tagore . . .

10 May 2013, 18:00 PM

A very special birthday gift….

10 May 2013, 18:00 PM

The depths of a poetic soul

10 May 2013, 18:00 PM

A tale of Bangladeshi cinema

10 May 2013, 18:00 PM

From Thakur to Tagore

3 May 2013, 18:15 PM

In search of answers to life's meaning

3 May 2013, 18:00 PM

The travails of a bold woman

3 May 2013, 18:00 PM

The world of children

3 May 2013, 18:00 PM

When self-obsession is all . . .

3 May 2013, 18:00 PM

Pagination

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