Fiction / Where the blood doesn’t speak
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
When Reza was 10, war lived on the rooftop.
Poetry / Incomplete
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / Leftovers
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
News Report / Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize following AI review
3 July 2026, 20:09 PM
News
Essay / ‘Where My Darlings Lie Buried’: Navigating grief with Sufia Kamal through poetry
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Graphic Novel / Till human voices wake us and we drown
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
News Report / Dua Lipa launches library of banned and censored books in Portugal
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / Of faith, desire, and the threshold between
30 June 2026, 17:22 PM
Reviews
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
26 June 2026, 15:30 PM
Features
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 / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
News Report / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News Report / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026, 22:03 PM
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
Event Report / Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
19 May 2026, 14:26 PM
The bilingual poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved, (Oitijjhya, 2026) by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud was launched on Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event was organised by Oitijjhya Publications and moderated by Mostafa Mushfiq.
Event Report / Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
17 May 2026, 17:16 PM
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
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay / Ghosts in the secretariat: Mapping the Bangladeshi Gothic
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
Nazrul cannot be contained within a singular frame
Nazrul’s “Rebel Poet” identity is too constrained to limit him within a single frame. Nazrul’s poetry moves, shifts beyond even its historical significance. They take rebirth, vertebrate, enter speech, then public conscience, and Nazrul returns as chant—becoming the primary language of people’s struggle for rights, carrying an unyielding spirit in every movement when people most need him.
25 May 2026, 09:00 AM
Raja Rammohun Roy: An architect of Asian cosmopolitan modernity
Raja Rammohun Roy was a trailblazer in South Asian and, arguably, Asian culture, literature, journalism, and education. He is often described as the “Father of Modern India,” the “Prophet of Indian Nationalism,” a pioneer of the Bengal Renaissance, and a founder of Asian Anglophone literature.
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Anti-colonial resistance in Kazi Nazrul Islam’s essays
Famously known to Bengalis as the rebel poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam in most of his poems and verse-lyrics raised a strong voice against every form of oppression the British colonisers, representing the capitalist West, systematically unleashed on their subjects in India.
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
The human texture of July
History rarely remembers how revolutionary times actually feel. It remembers slogans but forgets the trembling hands that first held the placards.
21 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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?
21 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
The bilingual poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved, (Oitijjhya, 2026) by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud was launched on Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event was organised by Oitijjhya Publications and moderated by Mostafa Mushfiq.
19 May 2026, 14:26 PM
A bilingual ode to the hills: On the launch of Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved
Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved (Oitijjhya, 2026), a bilingual poetry collection by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud, is set to be launched today, Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event is organised by Oitijjhya Publications and begins at 4:00 PM.
18 May 2026, 15:11 PM
Bilet pherta
The only problem in our ‘Shahebiana.’
Is our complexion, that’s not ‘White.’
Still, we don’t stop trying; use ‘Vinolea,’
Powdering our skin in layers, with might.
We are back from the West: a few,
We destroy the Congress in a chew.
Although our Shahebs are our God,
We make them angry on a nod.
Whereas, we walk like the Shahebs.
And give speeches in perfect English;
But in the time of crisis: steadily we run,
Like every other Bengali son.
17 May 2026, 17:55 PM
Amazon to end store access for legacy Kindle devices on May 20
Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012, cutting affected e-readers and tablets off from the Kindle Store and limiting their ability to access new content after May 20, 2026.
17 May 2026, 17:29 PM
Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
Bengal Shilpalay in Dhanmondi, Dhaka hosted a two-day literary event on May 15 and 16, consisting of a memorial lecture and a discussion session organised by Bengal Foundation and Kali O Kalam. The event, organised with the participation of prominent researchers, writers, and artists of the country—brought up literature, culture, social thought, and various contemporary issues.
17 May 2026, 17:16 PM
A taxonomy of opinions
And the crocodile cuts through the burbling rapid,
mossy snout blinking with sun.
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
City of postcards
The plane begins its descent
past the customary carpeting of sepia clouds,
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Diverse articulations in Jibanananda, Rilke, Eliot, and Neruda
At the beginning of “A Day Eight Years Ago” (originally published in 1954) by Jibananda Das, we learn that a man has been taken to the morgue.
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
What we’re reading this week
Published during the 2026 Ekushey Book Fair, Daaknam Bhule Gechi follows a city-bred teenager whose life changes when he moves with his family to a deserted palace in his father’s village.
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
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.
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
A book on education, and a rare moment of hope
A few months ago, while waiting for my matter to be called in court, I watched a young lawyer rise to make a submission.
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Iconic publisher Sheba Prokashoni suspends operations
Management says irregularities and misconduct were recently detected
13 May 2026, 18:53 PM
Motherhood, unfiltered: 6 books for a more honest Mother’s Day
Ultimately, these authors reject the fantasy of the flawless matriarch, proving that devotion and ambivalence are often delivered from the exact same source. This Mother’s Day, let us celebrate the mothers who nurtured us, mourn the ones we’ve lost, and hold space for those whose experiences of motherhood exist in the shadows.
10 May 2026, 16:28 PM
Rabindranath
You’re a traffic island in our consciousness,
O Rabindranath!
9 May 2026, 00:00 AM
The quiet burden of love: Silence, separation, and the lives unfulfilled in Tagore
Though his characters breathe through very human emotions, yearning, hesitation, separation, regret, Tagore lifts love gently away from the limits of the human hand. It becomes something inwardly vast, where feeling matters more than outcome, and presence matters more than possession. This is why his lovers often come close, yet never arrive.
9 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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