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
For a New Poem
While I thought deeply of the spring, the winter came
12 June 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
In today's SLR, readers are treated to an up-close and personal look at renowned, award-winning poet Kamal Chowdhury.
12 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Crafted by History
Going through Crafted by History: An Interpretive Review of the Emergence of Bangladesh was a perplexing experience in view of the
7 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.
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950
Matiur Rahman's Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950 is a record of political history, quite unknown to many of us. De facto, the
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Rimbauder Kobita: Trilingual Edition
The trilingual edition of Rimbaud, Rimbauder Kobita (Poems of Rimbaud), with an introduction and translation by Binoy Barman, can be
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
'O United Nations'
Sinha M. A. Sayeed, a Bangladeshi writer of global understanding and standing, has written a book titled 'O United Nations' published by
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Love, Again
Ajanta has not seen her mother in ten years. During her last visit to Dhaka, Amma had suggested that Ajanta should consider getting married again.
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Journey Of A Novelist
After wrapping up my second novel, I realized something; a truth of absolute importance -- that it takes more or less two years to
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Solace
"Do you have any idea how much I missed you?"
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Editor's Note
Brains melting. Tempers flaring. Fresh fruits diced and juiced. The dread of term exams. The anticipation of a new budget. Welcoming
5 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Death of SUPERMAN
Are you a true Superman fan? If you have not read The Death of Superman, I believe the answer is a NO.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Essential Rokeya
In Bangladesh, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 – 1932) is highly regarded as a literary, cultural icon and reformist writer who
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Shiksha
Although most of us know Nurul Islam Nahid as the minister of the Ministry of Education, very few know that he always had a knack
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Manabjameen: Untilled Earth
Set in the troubled last quarter of the twentieth century, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Manabjameen is an expansive saga that charts the
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Yoga for Dummies
This revised edition of Yoga For Dummies provides 25 percent new and revised content, presenting new concepts for the yoga
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In this age of post 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Johnny Depp fans, very few people are unaware of Washington Irving's tale of fear and
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Night It Rained
The wind builds up its frenzy.
The clouds rob my sky.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Early Days
The May sun scorches Krishnachuras blaze The mind is moribund.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
First Kadam
You have gifted me rainy day's First Kadam flower, O my beloved I offer you songs of monsoon rain.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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