Fiction / Sahara
29 August 2026
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Fiction
I have not eaten today. Not on purpose. I will eat later. I simply have not thought of it yet.
Poetry / The finality of nostalgia
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Dinner time and death
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
23 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / A novel of radical softness
20 August 2026
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Cooking up heat
20 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Event Report / In Transit: The Third Annual Slam Poetry at North South University
19 August 2026
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News
Essay / Poet Shamsur Rahman’s drama translation: Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Marco Millions’
15 August 2026
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Essay
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
What becomes increasingly evident across Bahl’s three novels is her sustained fascination with the emotional significance of almosts and maybes.
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026
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 / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026
The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University is pleased to announce the second offering of its Certificate Course in Creative Writing, set to begin in Summer 2026. This innovative seven-week intensive program is designed to cultivate the next emerging literary voices by providing a structured, mentor-led environment that emphasises Bangladesh’s rich cultural narratives.
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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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
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
Logan's Run author George Clayton Johnson dies at 86
Science-fiction writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 dystopian novel Logan's Run, passes away aged 86.
27 December 2015
Beginner's Guide to Nonfiction
When we talk about narrative literature, we generally mean fiction. Thrillers, fantasy, detective novels – name anything, and it's
23 December 2015
A Death in the Family
“My Struggle” is a six volume semi-autobiographical novel, or “auto-fiction”, by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. The six
13 December 2015
A Freedom Fighter's Personal Account of 1971
Shahzaman Mozumder's The Guerrilla: A Personal Memorandum of 1971, a nonfictional work launched at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014
13 December 2015
The Lonely Woman
The sun is up in its never ending zest
11 December 2015
The Tree
Farah saw the tree as soon as she entered the new apartment. Her parents had come to Dhaka after the Partition of India in 1947.
11 December 2015
Songs of Freedom
Our equipment consisted mostly of small arms. We had virtually no indirect fire support (artillery). Even the mortars we had in our sector were without sights.
11 December 2015
OPINION: Rokeya’s tolerance and magnanimity
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) pursued her sustained literary, educational and political activism in the face of stiff social opposition from critics unwilling to accept her gender egalitarian messages positively.
9 December 2015
A Testimony to Love's Perpetual Power
In terms of love stories, The Sharp Hook of Love deserves an intensive perusal. The book tells an engrossing story about the 12th...
6 December 2015
A quest for self-discovery and knowledge
A strong will power is essential for every individual to reach the destiny of life. Santiago through his journey learns the language of the universe and discovers that we all are parts of the universal soul.
6 December 2015
THOUGHTS ON A TROUBLING SECTOR
Several of the writers discuss at varying lengths the gap that exists between theory and practice in general (including in the advanced countries), as well as the imperative of matching practice to the reality of social structure, political culture and form of government, cultural norms and traditions, and economic conditions of a particular country.
6 December 2015
Two Poems by Bimal Guha
War is a sky shattering fierce roar of clouds, quick footsteps
4 December 2015
Undergraduate poem comes to light
In 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet promoting atheism. This wasn't his first offence.
4 December 2015
Tête-à-tête with Ramachandra Guha
Nirupama Subramaniam meets writer and historian Ramachandra Guha on the sunlit balcony of the authors lounge at the Bangla Academy during the Dhaka Lit Fest. Despite the weight of being a public intellectual and academic, there is a lightness about his presence. The author of India before Gandhi (Penguin; 2013) and Patriots and Partisans (Penguin; 2012) speaks at a fast pace, stabbing the air to make a point, as though he feels each word deeply. It is almost like listening to a story.
4 December 2015
A Monograph on Mystic Musings
Rumi glorified wisdom and placed it on top of power and pomp. Rumi's love for wisdom with dignity, rather than for wealth......
29 November 2015
Humanity enslaved by the inhumane
This anti-slavery novel .... is believed to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
29 November 2015
No, it's not Dial M for Murder
Writers Tom Watson and Martin Hickman couldn't have selected a better title than Dial M for Murdoch, borrowing from Alfred Hitchcock,
29 November 2015
Everyday Arthur Rimbaud
“Do you believe in love? That love exists? Between a man and a woman?”
27 November 2015
LADDER ON FIRE
Every Bohemian fairytale I have read starts off with a man who has too many kids and too little money; money which he impulse buys a rope with...
27 November 2015
Fictional Deaths
We all have gone through that horrible phase of curling up in our beds and crying over the deaths of our favourite fictional characters...
25 November 2015
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