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
Travel Adventures in the Balkans and Tibet || By Akhter Matin Chaudhury
HARDLY travelogues are written in English here in book form that deserves a review. But Travel Adventures in the Balkans and Tibet is a different
12 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Nuclear Power & Rooppur Issues & Concerns || By Dr. Abdul Matin
IN my review (TDS, April 7, 2012) of Dr. Abdul Matin's book on Rooppur and the Power Crisis I had stated that books on technical
12 April 2015, 18:00 PM
TEA WITH MISS BROOKS
Once in Darjeeling, when I was 12 years old, I remember standing in front of a smallish bank, staring at all the flowers neatly planted in rows.
10 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The Kerala Journal
I wake up to the chirping of birds. So many different types of sounds! There are beautiful Koels singing on the tree tops.
10 April 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Karl Marx once said, “Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
10 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Ganamadhyam
The world of mass media in Bangladesh is very rich. But as in other places, it also has many challenges and opportunities.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
North and South
North and South, a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, was published in 1855. The novel is set in the nineteenth century industrial Britain, in a township named Milton, similar to the manufacturing center of England, Manchester.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Classics Corner
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell or simply known as Mrs. Gaskell was born on the 29th of September in 1810 in Chelsea.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henriquez's latest novel The Book of Unknown Americans is a tale of diaspora, dreams and desperation. In literary terms, diaspora refers to the dispersion of people from their motherland to other countries for economic, political, religious or other reasons.
5 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Fantasizing in Dhaka traffic: An interview with Saad Z. Hossain
Saad Z. Hossain writes in a niche genre of fantasy, science fiction and black comedy with an action-adventure twist.
3 April 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Today’s SLR is all about accomplishing what you have set your heart on. We meet Bangladeshi author Saad Z. Hossain whose debut novel was recently released in USA.
3 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Bucket List: The Kerala Journal
The glorious backwaters of Kerala have been calling me for years.
3 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Where Do I Belong
Rummana Chowdhury announces herself, or, at least, part of her feelings, in this line: “Some things are forever ingrained in the innermost crevasses of your heart, no matter where you live or what you do” (“Hot Apple Fritters and Hot Roshogollas”).
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM
MAHFUZAMANGAL
‘MAHFUZAMANGAL' or 'In praise of Mahfuza' is an extraordinary book of poetry penned by Mozid Mahmud; the poems of which were composed mainly in the 1980s with the exception of a few poems added later to the book.
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM
“Oriental Tales: Selected Bangla Fiction” -- By Helal Uddin Ahmed
Helal Uddin throws light on the many aspects of Bangladesh's Oriental Society, through his compilation of “Oriental Tales: Selected
Bangla Fiction”.
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Classics Corner
Dear readers and writers, we are going to start a corner titled “Classics Corner” where reviews from you on timeless Classics and very popular books published between 1900 and 2000 will be printed.
29 March 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
In commemoration of the Bangladesh Independence Day on 26th March, today's SLR starts with a poetic salute to our past; moves on to a proclamation of love for our present; and ends the poetic trail with an optimistic wish for our future.
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
I Sing of Heroes
I sing of Heroes
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
This, My Land
Not gold, not silver, not pearl, neelam it is not.
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Mind Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
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