Essay / When fanfiction swapped out fans for publishing deals
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
It sounds flippant to put it that way but, the Aeneid, at its core, really is a continuation fic—picking up where Homer’s Trojan War ended and following Aeneas, a minor character in the canon, as he stumbles through an entirely new narrative along with original characters and incredibly expanded lore.
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Aruna Chakravarti’s ghosts don’t just scare, they remember
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
Poetry / Noboborsho
15 April 2026, 16:44 PM
Poetry
Reflections / Boishakh in fragments: Food, storms, and memory
14 April 2026, 18:03 PM
Reflection
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
News
Essay / Rabindranath Tagore and the evolving spirit of Pohela Baishakh
13 April 2026, 23:12 PM
Essay
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
News
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
The book features 15 chapters covering essential topics such as attachment styles, love languages, and shadow work.
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
EVENT REPORT / Singing a 900-year-old song: Exploring Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
3 January 2026, 10:26 AM
A book talk on Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury’s latest work, the translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Bengali, published by Matribhasha Prokashwas held on 27th December 2025, at Bookworm Bangladesh.The event was hosted by scientist and writer Dr. Abed Chaudhury.
EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Fiction
The scramble was almost instantaneous and without mercy. Men in freshly tailored panjabis—stitched for the next morning's prayers—threw elbows for the simple right to go back home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
FICTION / Little Grey - Part 2
21 February 2026, 01:27 AM
THE SHELF / If characters from different books went on a date
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
POETRY / Potatoes are burning in the fryer
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
THE SHELF / 5 books to read as a performative male
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
THE ENGLISHING OF 'OMAR KHAYYÁM
Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM
The Goat from the Other Side of the River
“Doctor,” I chalk on the charcoal board. I ponder for several long seconds until I put two crosses on it with the kind of exertion that
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM
The Art World is Essentially Male
In 1666 Margaret Cavendish wrote a science fiction work titled The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World, although it
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM
DANCING IN THE DARK: MY STRUGGLE BOOK 4
This is the fourth installment of the six-volume autobiography of Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard and has been translated
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM
A Novel dripping with tragic tales of history
With the aforementioned Akan proverb, Yaa Gyasi welcomes the readers to her novel, “Homegoing”, where dark history unravels itself, reminding the readers of the slave trade that has carved its marks on history's shoulders.
6 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Art and Poetry Makes Singing in Dark Times More Relevant
The poet may be the priest of the invisible if we are to concur with Wallace Stevens. When art and poetry intersect, the invisible suddenly turns into the visible truth and this visible art is the skein that keeps the freedom of expression
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM
The Vanishing American Adult
Benjamin Eric Sasse aka Ben Sasse is a freshman Republican Senator from Nebraska. A doctorate in American History from Yale, Sasse was named President of Midwestern University, Freemont Nebraska in 2010.
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Rada Intensity
We were out in the park, frolicking—all sixteen of us. Well, sort of! We were gamboling all right, but this was a part of the Alexander Technique exercise, something any casual observer in the park might not have understood.
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM
In Prison
The room is locked from outside;
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Patriot Acts
Early the next morning, after Rafi finally turned off the TV and closed his eyes on the couch, a text message startled him out of sleep: “Get a big American flag, hang outside your door, Dad.” His father always signed off, even though his name would appear with his texts and calls. Rafi set down the phone and tried to sleep again. A second text intruded on it: “Take down Black Lives Matter sign. Please. For now. Dad.”
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM
On A Street
Nanga Pagla the sky‑clad one
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Autumn Fragment
November, where are the mists of yesteryear?
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM
DLF DIARIES
I wrote this for you, Mamma—for being insufferable on Day 1,
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM
ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM WINS THE DSC PRIZE FOR 2017
Anuk Arudpragasam has been announced the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage at the Dhaka Lit on the 18th November, 2017.
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM
“Every Poet Has to Find His or Her Own Way” Kaiser Haq in Conversation with Rumana Siddique
RS: How did you get into writing, who were the major influences on your work when you started writing and which contemporary writers do you identify with now?
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM
The Idea of Order in Bangladesh
I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
A Welsh Poet Foresees His Death: Rakhine Province, 1944.
As many hundreds of thousands of refugees stream out of Rakhine, leaving behind family killed and homes reduced to ashes, it may seem, and maybe is, peculiarly insensitive, untimely and Eurocentric to refer to the death of one Welsh poet in their homeland nearly 75 years ago.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
9/11 Cataclysm and Sustaining Fear
The other day I was reading Deepa Kumar's Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire while traveling on a bus from Rajshahi to my home
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Searching
A pebble ran to a beach
in search of a home
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Using Fictional Techniques to Write History
The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple is the most engrossing book that I've read recently.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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