FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

When I read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James a few years ago, it took away my peace of mind for some days with its terrific

The book Dus k Dawn And Liberation is compelling reading. This is the ultimate test of any book, fact, fiction or fusion of both.

There are people who seem to be genetically inclined to act like Mary's contrary lamb. Kamal Siddiqui, a former civil servant who had

I pray not for you to guard me in danger time and again

Whatever bravado I might show to the world, only I know how greedy I am for a night's – even a single night's – sleep. I have read an encyclopaedic amount of literature about insomnia, I have heard lullabies in thirteen different languages, I have tried lavender aromatherapy and temple massage techniques.

Tagore's reception outside India is quite an interesting subject. He was an insatiate globetrotter who had travelled vastly on both sides

Wuthering Heights is one of the best-known novels in the history of English literature. This novel tells a love story packed with passion

The book, “Family Furnishings”, is the most recent collection of short stories written by Alice Munro and includes 24 stories written

Only poets can heroically sacrifice the golden throne

Sleep is an allergy, a reaction against the day's useless welfare programmes. It is alright for people to have no memory of dreams in their sleep, but to have no memory of sleeping is a nightmare.

If you ever feel like you've made a wrong decision in life, just think about the 12 publishers who rejected Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone before finally the 8-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's editor demanded to read the rest of the manuscript her father had shown her.

Jamaican author Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.

Rabindranath: Ashukh Bishukh is an outside-the-box but well-written book on Rabindranath Tagore by Mihirkanti

This book is a build-up on the theories and experiences of a patriot, teacher and business thinker. Constructed in

The book, “The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East”, is a popular history book by Oxford

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Very few books ever fail to draw us into an ever deeper contemplation of literature, no matter how many times we turn to them. Rabindranath's Novel: Patterns of Thought and Representation ([1977] 2014) by Syed Akram Hossain belongs to that slim, selective canon.

Svetlana Alexievich, this year's Nobel laureate for literature, says her approach is to let "human voices speak for themselves".

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature.

Will the prize awarding body choose to honor the occasion by picking a female winner? Will it break new ground by giving the prize to a journalist? Or will it rush to bestow the coveted prize on one of the many aging favorites?