FICTION / Body Selim
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Fiction
We know Body Selim. If you look around, you’ll find that after this incident, many people came to know him through the newspapers.
Poetry / The aviary within
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Poetry
Essay / When fanfiction swapped out fans for publishing deals
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
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
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 / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
The six-week intensive program offers beginners and budding writers mentor-led guidance in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, focusing on Bangladeshi cultural narratives
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
On the chilly afternoon of January 10, Bookworm Bangladesh, in collaboration with Voices Shaping Society, hosted the book launch of The July Resolve, a collection of 36 narratives that depicts the strength and struggles of people from all walks of life during the Monsoon Revolution of 2024.
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 Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Signifier: Alas, that I am only what I am not.
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Rice
In the wooded marshland of Manbhoom, the mountain peaks stretched beyond the horizon. Spring was almost gone; palash trees in
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Decision Pending
He was hell-bent on getting out of Purgatory. There was no good reason for him to be in this position but here he was. It really wasn't
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Ashapurna Devi and the Feminist Consciousness in Bengal: A Biocritical Reading
The book engages with a critical discussion on feminist consciousness in India, perhaps in South Asia, as to the attributes of feminist
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, the editors of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
What If?
He said she was his Achilles' heel long before she had read Homer. "What's an Achilles' heel?" She asked with the innocence of a
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Craig's List
The newly weds were still living with ramshackle old furniture and gadgets ~ different pieces collected over the years that my son had
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
From dawn's early luster to unfulfilled dusk hours
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Fairy Tales
“and mother... Why tell me the story of a tiger,
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
A 21st Century Novel: Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace
It is awkward to write about a novel when one is not a literary critic. The task is all the more daunting, given that unlike Tahmima
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Bones of Grace or the Coming-of-Age of a Writer
Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace is the last in the trilogy that began with A Golden Age and was followed up by The Good Muslim.
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
SIX SHARED SEASONS
Let us say you dream of a woman,
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
In and Around Boston As an Actor-to-be
Almost in front of the entrance to, and egress from, the Goodge Street subway station on Tottenham Court Road stood a coin-
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
Carts. Midnight. Crossing.
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Patrick Modiano's So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborho
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood is Patrick Modiano's first publication since 2014 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Anger and Ressentiment in Our Common Present
The fast moving changes in the world in the past few years have forced us into deep introspection and sparked anxiety about the
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Refugees and magic realism
To be honest, “Exit West” was the first novel I could devour in a day. This book ended up on my TBR list because 1) the hard cover is beautiful, 2) it is one of the 13 listed books for The Man Booker Prize 2017, and 3) this book is an urgent portrait of the current migration issues.
23 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Longlist Announced For The Dsc Prize For South Asian Literature 2017
The much anticipated longlist for the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 was announced today by eminent feminist writer and publisher Ritu Menon, who is the chair of the jury panel for the distinguished prize.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Ocean of Sorrow
When I picked up Ocean of Sorrow, I didn't know what to expect. My father had bought the book from Bangla Academy in our recent trip to Dhaka.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
From The Pain of a Hollow Man (Rikter Bedan)
Oh, Lord! Is this your way of freeing me from the possible entanglement of relationships? I pondered and wondered; my eyes filled with tears. The joy of such freedom is full of intense pain too.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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