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
Can there be a virtual poetry revival?
The amount of poetry on the net is simply staggering. All the great and popular poems we have – or ought to have – read are a mouse click away.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Reporting on Dissent
Amidst the endless contest for power, every nation-state is beset with insurgencies. A casualty in these conflicts is often the freedom of thought and expression.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
OUTLANDISH
I miss my unborn child
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
TAZRIN FASHIONS, LTD.
She believed she was about thirty
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
This week we welcome back the ever-prolific poet and academic Kaiser Haq tracing lines of connection between the wireless and the lyrical.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Cat and Mouse By Gunter Grass
I bought a copy of Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass (1927—2015) around four years ago from Aziz Super Market, Dhaka and while going through the moving novel Gunter Grass seemed to me very close to Victor Hugo in terms of characterization.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh-er-Swadhinota Sangrame Shilpishomaj By Biren Shome
IT'S not often you come across artists writing on artists.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Fall of the House of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe
CRAVING for some spinal tingling horror story? How about some classic Edgar Allen Poe Gothic Fiction that will leave you scared and confused?
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Q&A with Farah Ghuznavi: The Writer's Wilderness Survival Kit
Should a writer write to please the reader or himself/herself?
25 April 2015, 04:57 AM
THE KERALA JOURNAL
The alarm rings at the crack of dawn, but my body and mind fight.
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A TRIBUTE
Sadaat Hasan Manto, one of the most prolific short-story writers to emerge from the subcontinent, described the murder of a 'Muslim bastard' during the riots in his most famous short story 'Toba Tek Singh'.
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. (Khalil Gibran)
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Political Parties in Bangladesh
I congratulate Prof. Dr. Raunaq Jahan for her book Political Parties in Bangladesh- Challenges of Democratization. I would also like to
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Gender and Development By Janet Momsen
GENDER and Development by Janet Momsen (2009) is an empirical study considering position of women in developing countries.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Northanger Abbey
NORTHANGER Abbey is a novel, written by Jane Austen. The story is set in early 19th Century England.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Gunter Grass in Dhaka
One day in November 1986, Dr Shamim Khan – friend, colleague, and at that time an assistant professor of International Relations at
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
What Must Be Said
Why have I kept silent, held back so long,
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Today's SLR is dedicated to the German novelist, social critic, artist and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass who died on 13th April. He was 87.
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The Fine Line between Plagiarism and Influence
Kaavya Viswanathan's novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life” is a prime example of plagiarism.
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
"In The Light of What We Know" By Zia Haider
ZIA Haider's 'In The Light of What We Know' is a recent addition to the long list of post colonial literature by a host of post colonial authors.
12 April 2015, 18:00 PM
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