INTERVIEW / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
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Books & Literature
When the MasterChef favourite Kishwar Chowdhury and writer Samai Haider caught up to talk about Chowdhury’s debut cookbook Smoke, Rice, Water (Hardie Grant Books, 2026), the conversation quickly morphed into something much larger than publishing deadlines and recipe testing.
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Kebabs, christmas cake, and the making of a storyteller
7 hour(s) ago
Books & Literature
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
News
Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre
7 June 2026, 11:26 AM
Entertainment
Poetry / A woman-shaped exhaustion
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
News
Book Review: Fiction / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
Book Review: Nonfiction / The story of Bangladesh’s books
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative non-fiction
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
Two Palestinian writers, Omar Hamad and Ibrahim Massri, have been working since late 2025 to build a library in Gaza during the ongoing genocide. The Phoenix Library is located in the heart of Gaza City and, per a post from the library’s Twitter/X account, is fast approaching its official opening date despite the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine still being subject to Israeli apartheid violence.
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin, 2025) continues to solidify its place in the zeitgeist and its cultural impact well into 2026, with its recent win at this year’s US National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in the Autobiography category.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
Story of one tree
When I come to you, I become a tree
Trees have roots
3 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Sisyphus laughs: the laughter of God
At last, God heeded Sisyphus’s prayer—a plea he had been making for countless centuries. Each time, he hoisted the rock onto his shoulders, convinced that this would be the time it ascended with ease
3 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Violence, justice, and the aunties in between: Discussing the “intimacies of violence”
The Book Talk discussing Nadine Murshid’s new book was arranged by Bookworm Bangladesh on January 2, 2025
3 January 2025, 16:00 PM
Through folklore and fantasy: An ode to Bangla mythological characters
The book invites you to revel in the world of legends, to dream as you once did as a child.
1 January 2025, 18:00 PM
For the Curious Writer: Writing tips for the New Year
As 2025 rolls around, spelling yet another year of reading about writing and writing about reading, we asked the Star Books and Literature family to share their top writing tips for our readers.
1 January 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood’ is a flawed but essential critique of the founding fathers of our nation
Review of ‘Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood’ (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986) by Anthony Mascarenhas
31 December 2024, 16:00 PM
Bishwo Shahitto Kendro's mobile libraries on temporary halt
The mobile libraries will resume operating, serving readers again from February 1, 2025
30 December 2024, 14:50 PM
The shabby turtle without a shore
Some label you a poet of love so true
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Je Jole Agun Jole’ was first published under the title ‘Kar Ki Noshto Korechilam’
'I dedicated a lion's share of the life I've lived to poetry. I've thought of poetry as a guiding star'
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM
One who stands alone in the crowd
A lonely soul treads on the street cultivating the sweet pain of defunct love; like a solitary artist, he rambles through the alleys of the city
27 December 2024, 18:00 PM
The role of women’s agency in transforming Bangladesh from a basket case into a beacon of progress
Review of ‘Renegotiating Patriarchy’ (LSE Press, 2024) by Naila Kabeer
27 December 2024, 13:00 PM
Translating magic: Netflix’s bold journey to bring Macondo to life
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (originally published in 1967) has long been heralded as a masterpiece of magical realism and a cornerstone of Latin American literature.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM
2024: The year of literature in translation
Starting from comfort reads to kicking-my-feet-giggling romance to stimulating memoirs, there is a little bit for everyone from every country, including the vast South Asia. Here we have accumulated a few titles to give you an overview of all the translated works published this year.
25 December 2024, 18:00 PM
The plebeians in the twilight
It was the shade of the ashwath that vanquished all one’s weariness from the fiery heat of Choitro. Or else it was not possible for fatigue to be eliminated so quickly.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Spectacularised rape
In the psyche and schema of the average transnational Bangladeshi, rape is visible and legitimate only when it takes spectacular forms—violent, brutal, deadly.
20 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Fascism, propaganda, and resistance: ‘Wicked’ as a mirror to our times
The basic premise is a powerful one: What if the Wicked Witch of the West wasn't so bad after all, and what if the Wizard and the seemingly perfect society he oversaw were the real threats?
20 December 2024, 14:10 PM
Redefining aviation safety culture
Research on Aviation Safety: Safety is a Mindset by Air Commodore Munim Khan Majlish is a fresh look at the concept of aviation safety challenging standard ideas about safety.
18 December 2024, 18:00 PM
UPL marks its 49th anniversary with book fair celebration
The University Press Limited (UPL) celebrated its anniversary with readers, writers and well-wishers. The exchange of greetings was held from 4 PM to 8 PM at the UPL central office, located at Green Road in Farmgate area of Dhaka, on December 13 (Friday).
18 December 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Catfish and Avatars’: Discussions on cyber lives and cyber safety
The phrases “cyber safety” and “cyber lives” may seem vague and not very well understood among Bangladesh’s netizens.
18 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
I weave Hibiscuses in your hair and
Along with them I softly weave the strings of my I love you’s.
Your eyes are closed as you soak in my touch and
Your lips are pressed thin as if imprisoning yours.
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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