Canadian writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature," the award-giving body said on Thursday.
Interview / Silence, faith, and the unseen: Jon Fosse in conversation
8 October 2026
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Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / Chasing myths before midnight
8 October 2026
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Books & Literature
News Report / Best-selling British author Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86
7 October 2026
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News
Fiction / The wardrobe
3 October 2026
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Fiction
Poetry / From fawn to shore
3 October 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Waterhen
3 October 2026
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Poetry
Essay / Celebrating literary minds: Reflections on editing festschrifts
26 September 2026
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Essay
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
“Ladyland is not perfect,” remarks Sultana, one of the protagonists in the much awaited play, “Project Ladyland 2026”. Produced by HerStory Foundation in collaboration with the British Council and Women of the World Foundation, the play was greeted by a full house this weekend. Staged at the Bangladesh Mohila Samiti theatre, the performance made a splash on Friday, August 14.
Event Report / Kobitabela: a soulful afternoon
9 September 2026
Event Report / “We do not live outside history”: Dr. Azfar Hussain on humanism, fascism, and the July Uprising
26 July 2026
“It is one of those questions that politely pretends to be a title, but secretly aspires to be a life’s work,” began Dr. Azfar Hussain on an overcast evening on the July 23, 2026, addressing a packed forum hall at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (ULAB), alluding to the title of his public lecture: What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Age of 'Posthumanism' and Global Fascism?
Event Report / “Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
15 July 2026
A unique and heartwarming workshop, designed to celebrate the beautiful journey of parenthood through creative expression and quality time
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
Home
Loosened from the
narrative of my own living
is a world
18 July 2026
The knife seller
People call me the Knife Seller.
I cannot recall when the name came to be. Neither did I ever correct anyone. I preferred it that way. It makes my job easier.
18 July 2026
The teacher beyond the classroom
My earliest memories of Professor Fakrul sir are, naturally, of the classroom.
18 July 2026
A silent warning against the modern life
The story marks a quiet departure from Obayed Haq’s recent releases, while also hinting at the pitfalls of modernity. In today’s fast-paced world, amid the noise and light pollution of everyday life, Obayed Haq’s protagonist reminds readers to slow down, or at least to take a long, hard look at our easy enmeshment with the “modern” life.
16 July 2026
Who wrote the life you’re living?
Are you writing about your life in your own way? Or are you merely borrowing the very strings that tie you to society’s expectations? Through Tokyo’s gauzy midnight light, Mieko Kawakami’s All the Lovers in the Night captures the stillness of a generation suspended between desire and exhaustion, passion and pressure which reveal paralysis as cultural weather rather than personal defect.
16 July 2026
Let there be monsters: On AI mythology
Ask any room of people about their deepest fears regarding artificial intelligence, and eight out of 10 will likely invoke a takeover narrative—the “Frankenstein syndrome”, where the creation turns against the creator.
16 July 2026
“Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
A unique and heartwarming workshop, designed to celebrate the beautiful journey of parenthood through creative expression and quality time
15 July 2026
A cruel radiance of vibrant yearning
In this essay, Jibanananda Das’s poem “In Camp” is presented within a new theoretical framework. My primary objective is to dissect it in the light of my proposed “Existential-Imagism.” (The Daily Star, 2026).
11 July 2026
What he called love
A photograph slipped from an envelope while Alia rummaged through an old metal trunk.
11 July 2026
The Naysayer
A name. The Naysayer. A terrible name he had earned, a name he had carried in rage and grief. But it no longer mattered. What mattered was this world. With a wave of his hand, the layers of ash and dust peeled back like dying petals, revealing the scorched land above. He stepped onto the surface of the dead world, unsteady, grief filling his ancient heart as he beheld the guttering fires.
10 July 2026
5 books published in this year’s Boi Mela that you should read
For readers who like short fiction with range, Upoma Odhikari’s Hibernation is an easy recommendation. The book brings together seven stories across different genres, written in a soft, distinctly Bangladeshi voice that feels increasingly confident as you go.
7 July 2026
Leftovers
Morning greets us with
Upturned eyes. Or is it just me?
4 July 2026
Incomplete
Get drunk by Gazal they say,
I never understood that
Until now,
4 July 2026
Where the blood doesn’t speak
When Reza was 10, war lived on the rooftop.
4 July 2026
Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize following AI review
Set in rural Trinidad, “The Serpent in the Grove” explores themes of betrayal, survival and the resilience of a woman's will.
3 July 2026
Dua Lipa launches library of banned and censored books in Portugal
British singer-songwriter Dua Lipa has launched the Manifesto Library, a permanent collection of banned and censored books at Livraria Lello in Porto. Opened as part of the BABELL—City of Books festival, the library features nearly 100 titles challenged or restricted over themes of race, sexuality, politics, and LGBTQIA+ identity, including works by Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and others.
2 July 2026
Till human voices wake us and we drown
Sami lives in a tiny fishing village off the coast of the Bay of Bengal, eking out a living alongside his grandfather fishing in the same rising waters that claimed his parents and his childhood home.
2 July 2026
‘Where My Darlings Lie Buried’: Navigating grief with Sufia Kamal through poetry
I first understood that grief has a separate grammar long before I could find words for it.
2 July 2026
Of faith, desire, and the threshold between
On the Brink of Belief is flawed and uneven, and at its best, extraordinary. It does not offer comfort or resolution. What it offers instead is a record. Of survival, yes, but also of tenderness, desire, formal experiment, theological argument, and erotic joy. Across this region, in these conditions, with these stakes, people are writing. This anthology insists you take it seriously, and it earns that insistence on almost every page.
30 June 2026
In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
What becomes increasingly evident across Bahl’s three novels is her sustained fascination with the emotional significance of almosts and maybes.
26 June 2026
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