Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
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Not every story ends with rejoicing. Not all questions are answered within one lifetime. Not everyone will get to fulfil their dreams. All my protagonists are incomplete until the end. And the end itself offers no catharsis. It’s the same darkness that was present when the reader met them the first time. I write about the world and the people within it the way I have experienced the world.
Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre
7 June 2026, 11:26 AM
Entertainment
Poetry / A woman-shaped exhaustion
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
News
Book Review: Fiction / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
Book Review: Nonfiction / The story of Bangladesh’s books
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative non-fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The flavours of Eid and the memory of home
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
The Shelf / Chand raat in Dhaka through the eyes of literary characters
27 May 2026, 23:33 PM
The Shelf
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
Two Palestinian writers, Omar Hamad and Ibrahim Massri, have been working since late 2025 to build a library in Gaza during the ongoing genocide. The Phoenix Library is located in the heart of Gaza City and, per a post from the library’s Twitter/X account, is fast approaching its official opening date despite the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine still being subject to Israeli apartheid violence.
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin, 2025) continues to solidify its place in the zeitgeist and its cultural impact well into 2026, with its recent win at this year’s US National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in the Autobiography category.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
The perils of youth in ‘Theft’
Review of Abulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Theft’ (Riverhead Books, 2025)
25 October 2025, 10:41 AM
Between silence and song: Early Bangla literature and the poetics of the ‘Charyapada’
Pandit Haraprasad Shastri read—and was deeply inspired by—Raja Rajendralal Mitra’s seminal work Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, published in 1882. That book was instrumental in inaugurating a whole new age in the history of Bangla language and literature.
24 October 2025, 19:37 PM
Carnival of carnage
War scenes creep like a daily soap to watch for seasons on mobile screens now;
24 October 2025, 19:37 PM
From the prayer hall
Whose bell rings in the temple tonight?
Whose hymn rises from the Gospel's heart?
And in the call of Esha,
does the muezzin still implore—
"Come, come toward salvation"?
Across the purified valley of night,
from the world's scattered prayers,
24 October 2025, 19:37 PM
Let the queen rest in peace
Yukito Ayatsuji’s debut novel The Decagon House Murders was first published in Japan in 1978 and translated into English in 2020.
23 October 2025, 14:55 PM
Charting the south’s path
The book examines the context and circumstances that spurred these six central figures to devise or promote the solutions they did
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Fragments of memory and regret
The proof that Dr Niaz Zaman is an amazing writer lies in the fact that she knows exactly how to wound you with four words: “You are too late.”
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Leonard Cohen: Verses of mercy and turmoil
Before he was “Leonard Cohen—the celebrated singer”, he was “Cohen, the poet”.
22 October 2025, 13:45 PM
3 Partition stories for young readers
Here are three books on Partition that can be added to not only your child's but your own reading list.
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM
‘Barisal and Beyond’ reprinted: Celebrating Clinton B. Seely’s essays on Bangla literature
Dr Seely’s story in Bangladesh begins in Barisal Zilla School in 1963, while working as a volunteer for the American Peace Corps.
19 October 2025, 13:29 PM
A bit of Fry & Homer
Stephen Fry’s series, from the creation stories of Mythos and the monster-slaying of Heroes to the martial gore of Troy and now the cunning of Odyssey, is an undertaking of remarkable scale.
18 October 2025, 11:15 AM
Free at last
“If my father had any unpaid debt to anyone, please contact me or my younger brother Hamza,” Omar said to the congregation at the funeral, trying to sound soft and loud at the same time, “And if my father ever hurt any of you unintentionally, please forgive his soul and pray for him. Thank you.”
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
Autumnal offerings for seasonal readers
As summer draws to an end in the Northern hemisphere, a certain kind of booklover prepares to shift to the next set of items on their TBR (To Be Read) list. Because whether or not you are a fan of spooky stories, the arrival of autumn–and with it, Halloween–evokes in many a sense of seasonal cre
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
5 books to rescue you from brainrot
Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
Why academic writing deserves to be beautiful
The refusal to write beautifully is often justified in the name of neutrality, of detachment, of discipline.
17 October 2025, 04:45 AM
A mundane tragedy
In her first book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Anchor, 1999), Kiran Desai wrote a comic fable of a man who escapes the world by climbing a tree.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The death of the film and the rise of its maker
Novels that explore the life of a filmmaker are few and far between. When I think of a film, it’s usually the actors that are at the center of my attention and more and more recent novels attest to that.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Babitz vs. Ephron: The cool girls from the coast
Where Babitz is like the intimidating older sister you could only listen to in an obsessed quiet, Ephron feels more like a friend translating my internal monologue into the perfect words.
15 October 2025, 13:45 PM
Navigating the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
This year’s Booker Prize will be announced on November 10 in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and livestreamed on Booker Prize’s social channels.
12 October 2025, 10:49 AM
A good teacher teaches; an extraordinary teacher inspires
Today, I stood quietly for a while in front of Room 2064 on the second floor of the Arts Building—a place where I had stood countless times before, each time leaving with his warmth and affection.
11 October 2025, 16:00 PM
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