FICTION / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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
A Well-Wisher
An unexpected visitor suddenly entered into my office. I stood up from my chair as soon as I saw him. He was an important political
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The Runaway Stories
‘Runaway' is the latest of Alice Munro's collection of short stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives and
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016 announced
The "Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016" is announced in seven categories ahead of the Ekushey Book Fair.
23 January 2017, 12:38 PM
A book of unsolved mysteries
Atrick Modiano, the French language novelist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature,is an enigmatic
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Migrant workers are just not numbers...
About a year and a half ago, Shahidul Alam told me about how he wanted to do a project on migrant workers going
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The story of an invincible fisherman
The Old Man and the Sea is one of the masterpieces by Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961). Ernest Hemingway is an
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The unsolved mystery of Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is an Italian novelist in her 70s who has been producing published work for about 25 years. But it was only four years
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Second Language: Acaptor or a liberator?
It was a pleasant morning. The summer sun without its usual needle-sharp rays had brightened the vast airport. Very likely last night's
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The Dome of Silence
We all are confined,
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A courageous martyr
Faraaz is our proven brave heart
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The Poet and Her World
Undoubtedly celebrated bilingual poet, storyteller and writer Shamim Azad is one of the best known Bengali poets in England. Also her
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
Jamunacharya, the renowned philosopher of Takshashila, was grinding away on a complicated version of mimamsha, an orthodox
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Delightful deliberations on Dhaka
Any book or journal on or about Dhaka would immediately draw the attention and interest of people who were born in this 'impossible' city and who continue to live here despite the daily dose of swearing and grumbling.
1 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A dream-come-true for Torontonian Bengali Literati
It is not the story of any Scrutiny or of any F R Leavis or L C Knights. It is actually the truth about BLRC Literary Journal, published by Bengali Literary Resource Centre, Canada, hitting the stand.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
A girl's struggle against child marriage
Love in Teary Eyes' is a novel by Shahazada Basunia depicting the love story of Aurnob and adolescent Tripti who revolted against the social taboo of child marriage.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
BRAC through insider lenses
DRIVING Development: A Story of BRAC's Evolution and Effectiveness, Mahabub Hossain, Shib Narayan Kairy, Abdul Bayes, eds., United Press Limited.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh selected for India’s highest lit award
Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh has been selected for the highest literary honour in India, the 2016 Jnanpith Award.
25 December 2016, 07:11 AM
My love for you
My mind floats gently on the romance
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
A long influence
'Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'(1915) is a landmark modern poem written by T.S. Eliot in the sense is that it broke all
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
(Continued from the last issue)
Prodyumna gaped at the elderly man in surprise. What secret might he want to share with someone he had known only for a day?
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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