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 MASTERPIECE REMASTERED
If you're a Bengali or an art house film buff of any nationality, you've most likely heard of Satyajit Ray, one of India's finest filmmakers, whose debut
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath, Belgrade and My Emigration
When the Swedish Writers' Union chose me for a guest writer scholarship to Belgrade, I became excited and started to count the days.
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Sufia Kamal By Maleka Begum
Maleka Begum's latest book, Sufia Kamal, published by Prothoma, chronicles the life, times and works of Sufia Kamal.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Novera Ahmed
THE book encompasses Novera Ahmed; the sculptor and individual through the eyes of many well known writers such as Mehboob Ahmed, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,Abdus Salam Choudhury, Rabiul Hussain, Rezaul Karim Sumon, S.M.Ali and many more.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces
The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Private Life of the Mughals of India (1526-1803 A.D.)
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A shooting star leaps to oblivion
A convincing explanation of the title of Shams Monwar's latest collection of poems is not known to this reviewer.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Island of Doctor Moreau
I bought a copy of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells several years ago from a bookstore in Dhaka New Market.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Hard times revisited
For three impressive London women born in Bangladesh there were cheering results in the UK election.
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
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.
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” (Albert Einstein)
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The museum of found memories
As her whole universe
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Children Act By Ian McEwan
This week, and the following, we will feature the work of two Booker Prize winning novelists, Ian McEwan and Richard Flanagan.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Goa Connection By Bappaditya Chakravarty
Throw into a pot cooking up fiction a dash of intrigue, a pinch of cloak-and-dagger and gore, a soupcon of sleight-of-hand connection of the dots, a hint of James Bond-like characters and not-so-femme fatales, and a potpourri of villains, and you end up with a…thriller!
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India By Eugenia W. Herbert
In this deeply researched yet wonderfully readable history of Britain's 'garden imperialism' in India, Eugenia W. Herbert draws on a wealth of personal accounts and period illustrations, many of them little known, to track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance through colonial gardens.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Target 3 Billion
Target 3 Billion: Innovative Solutions Towards Sustainable Development talks about the 3 billion people across the globe who live in villages and are often deprived of basic resources.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj
A critical and historical understanding of Lord Archibald Wavell's viceroyalty is important for understanding the rational dynamics amongst the three leading political actors of that time, the British, the Hindus, and the Muslims.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Rendezvous with Poet Kamal Chowdhury
Kamal Chowdhury enjoys a special place in contemporary Bengali poetry.
12 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Black Beauty
She is a black beauty; I mean black.
12 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Story of Chains
Driven by lust and greed,
12 June 2015, 18:00 PM
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