Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
News
On June 19, 2026, the occasion was the 20th staging of “Love Letters”, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, translated and adapted into Bangla by writer and translator Professor Abdus Selim. Directed by veteran theatre actor and director Tropa Majumdar and staged by Group Theatre at the Dr. Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium, the production brought together the acting power couple, Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar. Their performances transformed what could have easily been a simple reading of letters into something deeply intimate and profoundly human.
NEWS REPORT / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News
Solitude
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Fiction / Radiant deluge
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Poetry / Scorching silence
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / To pick or not to pick a bone
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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
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?
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
Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Illuminating the past and the present: The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
5 May 2026, 21:50 PM
The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, recognising publications, publication staff, individual journalists, and authors across 23 award categories for journalism, reporting, criticism, photography, authorship, and overall excellence in their fields. The winners for each category were announced on May 4,2026 via live broadcasts on the Pulitzer Prizes website and YouTube channel.
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 Listener of Stories
My mother says I have always been a quick learner; I can remember her stories well. I can retell them in front of people, copying her
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry with Emily Dickinson
Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute
Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Flashback
The idea of this poem came to Shahidul in 2012, soon after his Sussex MA dissertation on Modernism, where Eliot was one of his
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Was Marx Really Right?
Readers familiar with Terry Eagleton's work would have no doubt from the title of his Why Marx Was Right that it would offer a strong
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania
Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Some Scattered Thoughts on the Russian Revolution
It seems our era has just stumbled upon its second major crisis—one brought about fascism. The rise of xenophobic racism, religious
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
A novel swinging back and forth through time
Set in the North of London in the beginning, Zadie Smith's fifth novel, “Swing Time”, tells us the story of two childhood friends whose paths diverge as they grow up, and the challenges of growing up fuel the diversion.
25 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Chile poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, deepen mystery: Experts
A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
21 October 2017, 04:36 AM
How Cute Button Eyes Are, Really?
There are "children's" books which will make you travel down memory lane, and then there are "children's" books which will make you
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Forty Rules of Love
This Turkish author has made her presence felt in the global literary scene with her ten novels over the last two decades. Among her
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Intriguing Statecraft and Enigmatic Politics
Looked at from a political perspective, Bangladesh will always seem to be a land of democratic upheavals and agitations that has
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
The language of self-deception—
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Government Employees of Bangladesh Another 'Diasporic' Community
“Take your belongings and head for the old dormitory. The dorm is a good one; it's located at the south-east of the college campus—
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Inside RADA for the First Time
Bret and I entered a cavernous RADA room, and not a moment too soon! What seemed like a thousand pairs of eyes stared at us as we
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Don't stop at this station
Paula Hawkins' bestselling thriller, “The Girl on the Train”, was something I was looking forward to because it was supposedly comparable to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl - a thriller that blew our minds off. Nonetheless, the expectations fumbled as I gave it a read.
18 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Of Ball Gowns, Corsages, and Tuxes
In more ways than one, an anthology is like an assorted box of candies; you never know what's coming next; 21 Proms is no exception to
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Political Economy of Unpeopling of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of Bangladesh
The word 'people' is a very common and widely used term but the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'ing' makes it perfect as the title of Political
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness
That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Enchanted
You remind me of the ocean,
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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