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.
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
Tribute to a scholar
They remember him as a loving husband and as an inspiring father. Other articles are written by his relatives, colleagues, students and friends in great admiration. In their portrayal, Prof. Rehman is illustrated as an exceptionally gentle, compassionate, amiable and vastly knowledgeable person.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of Quarter Century of Development
When Azizur Rahman Khan writes something on the economy of Bangladesh, one needs to take note.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Poet Syed Shamsul Haq flown to London for treatment
Eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq is flown to UK for treatment as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.
16 April 2016, 12:49 PM
I Need to Believe
In the name of justice...
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Tale of a Slave
It often happens nowadays
That I do not find my head
Spine, is now a distant memory!
A question crops up constantly, at birth
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
By the end of July 1907, news reaches Atiya through a student named Parmeshwar Lal that Iqbal's patriotic songs published in Makhzan have become so popular that they are being sung in the whole of northern India: 'houses, streets, alleys resounded with Iqbal's national songs, which created a feeling of nationalism unknown in India before.'
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Still struggling after 1971…..
MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind
This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Lighter Side of History
I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Driftwood
Her body lies like
Driftwood on the sand
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Bereavement
Things were not so rosy at first,
But soon they were straightened out.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
Ten years after Iqbal is born in Sialkot in undivided India, a girl named Atiya is born thousands of miles away in Istanbul. Just as Iqbal's father ran a business in Sialkot, Atiya's father Hasan Ali Fyzee (1827–1903) ran a business in that Turkish metropolis.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover. Just before this takeover..
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
My Days in National Book Centre
Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
From Subjective Impulses to Universal Echoes
This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
On the eve of India partition…
To me, Aynakhal Tea Estate is a metaphor for a world unknown to all but only those who work there: the British Mangers and Assistant Managers, the Bengali Clerks known as Babus, and the workers called Coolies. This world is a lot different from the one we live in; for it has its own rules, its own code of conduct, and challenges and dangers ...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
In this misty field one day
Nobody will find me walking in this misty field one day, I know;
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Then Again Love
Wild darkness of rain...
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Blue Afternoon
Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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