BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / To pick or not to pick a bone
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Reading Ghost-Eye felt similar to casually dating someone whose family and friends are more exciting and fascinating than the person themselves.
Book Review: Fiction / When ‘Little Women’ turns to murder: Katie Bernet reimagines a classic
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
The Shelf
News Report / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026, 22:03 PM
News
Book review: Fiction / Satgaon as memory: Reading ‘Satgaoner Haoatantira’
14 June 2026, 18:53 PM
Fiction review
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Reflection
Fiction / A doll’s coat
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Poetry / Phenomenon
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
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?
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Banu Mushtaq, an Indian writer who writes in Kannada language, was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2025 for “exploring the lives of those often on the periphery of society” in her collection of short stories, Heart Lamp (And Other Stories Publishing, 2024).
Event Report / DEML-NSU hosts closing ceremony for first cohort of its Creative Writing Certificate Course
27 April 2026, 22:43 PM
North South University’s Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) hosted the closing ceremony for its inaugural Certificate Course in Creative Writing on 25 April 2026. The event, executed successfully through the combined efforts of DEML faculties and students alike, was attended by Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Nasar U. Ahmed, Treasurer Prof. Abdur Rob Khan, and DEML Chair Dr Nazia Manzoor, among other distinguished faculty members of various departments at NSU.
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
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 Phone Call
Aum impatiently held on to his phone, hearing it ring without being answered. He hated having to start the day without hearing her voice. Then again, he also hated going to bed without talking to her. It was going to be a bad day.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
Psychedelic noises – a cacophony so harmonious
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
NEW BOOK
Rashida Sultana’s much-admired novel, Shada Beralera has been translated into English as The White Cats, recently.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Language Attitude Anxiety and Remedial Propositions: A New Approach to ELT
Asantha U Attanayake’s first exchanges with me were over e-mail. She was travelling across the Subcontinent to collect and develop materials for her forthcoming book.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Sweet Dreams and Distressing Nightmares
Those haunting lyrics of the British band Eurythmics, “Sweet dreams are made of this…”, followed intermittently by “…everybody is looking for something…”, and “…some of them want to use you…” fairly accurately encapsulate the theme of the dozen short stories that make up Rummana Chowdhury’s slim volume,
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
RUN
The ruby red kite fluttered above head, contrasted against the aquamarine sky, and it all was picture perfect for a split second, so perfect that it was a spoiler to the fact that something horrible was about to follow, like it did almost always.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
History Animated through Words
No matter Lawrence Durrel defines history as “an endless repetition of the wrong way of living,” we must study it closely for gaining insights into our very own existence and setting our future course of actions.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
What Makes Good Writing Good?
To answer this question, let me hazard an analogy -- good writing is much like good food. Good writing tickles our senses the way good food does.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
NEW from The Daily Star Books
The book comprises a curated collection of essays written by Professor Fakrul Alam on various occasions for The Daily Star, starting from 1999 until now.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
New Books: Ekushey Boi Mela, 2020
The poems in this collection explore issues plaguing the world right now—poverty, class inequality, climate crisis, warfare and
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
An Afternoon on Syed Manzoorul Islam’s Absurd Night
An interesting event of launching the revised translation of Syed Manzoorul Islam’s novel Ajgubi Raat took place on Saturday, February
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Arun Kumar Biswas: The Creator of the Detective Alokesh Roy
Just imagine, a detective character like Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Satyajit Ray’s Prodosh C. Mitra alias Feluda appears in the Bangladesh literary arena.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
A Great Departure
They carried the dead body from the front yard inside the house and slowly laid him down on the floor.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Ekushe February: An ode to an unforgettable event
The book is titled: Ekushe February. The title gives away the theme of the book undoubtedly. What’s so special about it? What’s special is the fact that this is the first ever compilation in Bangla literature on the events of the language movement of 1952.
17 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Verses for My Valentine
Some stars fell...
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Where’s Home?
A city made out of dust
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Malta: Room to Roam
Different scenario unfolds at every turn of a corner. Grand in a domestic dimension is the historic house museum - the Palazzo Falson - apparently the second oldest building still standing in the walled city of Mdina.
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
New Books
Dakkhin Asiar Diaspora Shahitya: Itihash, Tatta o Shongkot: A Book on South Asian Diaspora by Mojaffor Hossain
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Keats and the Elgin Marbles—Message from Parthenon
The classic collection of marble sculptures from Parthenon at the British Museum, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, has been a vexed source of doubt, appreciation, enthusiasm, disapproval, and envy ever since they were brought to England during 1802-1812.
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
The Jungle’s Call
I say “No” to the jungle’s call.
7 February 2020, 18:00 PM
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