CREATIVE NONFICTION / Melbourne: Where weather performs live
6 hour(s) ago
Books & Literature
When I first landed in Melbourne in January, the heat greeted me like a shockwave. 45 degrees Celsius, feeling like 48.
THE SHELF / 4 fictional case studies in incel pathology
6 hour(s) ago
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A wintry account of the human experience
2 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Stories from under the waves
2 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
FICTION / Somebody’s son, nobody’s daughter
1 April 2026, 18:37 PM
Fiction
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
News
POETRY / Notice for the poems that won’t be written
28 March 2026, 03:37 AM
Poetry
FICTION / Faded blue suitcase
28 March 2026, 03:44 AM
Fiction
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Homage to Rani-ma on her centenary year
Non-fiction review
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The wilderness in me
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Reflection
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
EDITORIAL / Why read?
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
Books & Literature
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
Books & Literature
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Poetry
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
News
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
News
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Singing a 900-year-old song: Exploring Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
3 January 2026, 10:26 AM
Books & Literature
A book talk on Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury’s latest work, the translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Bengali, published by Matribhasha Prokashwas held on 27th December 2025, at Bookworm Bangladesh.The event was hosted by scientist and writer Dr. Abed Chaudhury.
EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
Books & Literature
NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations
9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
Books & Literature
A lively winter fair will present locally crafted accessories and seasonal favourites, celebrating community creativity and winter warmth
EVENT REPORT / “Words are, to me, a way of understanding truth”: An hour of history and poetry at ULAB
5 December 2025, 13:50 PM
Books & Literature
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
Let me be free
Let me be free.
Let me be free
19 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Seventeen
Seventeen Springs cloaked in December,
Have flown by.
19 April 2024, 18:00 PM
The Precious O
That split second when the rubber slaps your skin and stays, when there is a click of a switch, a levitation, a lightness of your body—everyone remembers the first time they are knocked out, everyone except Mr Suleyman Khar, regional light-heavyweight titleist,
19 April 2024, 18:00 PM
The strange library of Haruki Murakami
Review of the Bangla translation of ‘A Strange Library’ (Knopf, 2014) by Haruki Murakami
19 April 2024, 13:45 PM
PublishHer Excellence Awards winners announced at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Mitia Osman, CEO and publisher of Mayurpankhi and the executive director at Agamee Prakashani, won the Emerging Leader Award
18 April 2024, 14:00 PM
The unanticipated consequences of caretaking
From the sensory delights of birdsong in the morning and sunset views from a lookout point to the less appealing realities of monitoring stagnant pond water and counting newts, we accompany Katie on her journey of discovery.
17 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Unveiling voices: Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival 2024
Featuring a diverse lineup of 38 authors from 9 countries—including UAE, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Scotland—the festival promises three days of engaging panel discussions,
17 April 2024, 18:00 PM
‘The day begins wrong’: Mastering tension and suspense in fiction
In my creative writing classes, whether at the University of Toronto or the Hermitage Residency in Bangladesh, I emphasise that any student of fiction must first master suspense
17 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Relaxed reminiscences
(For Lutfa, Nayeem, and Aarong Herbal Hair Pack)
17 April 2024, 15:00 PM
A house a bit bigger on the inside
Playing with a location that seems real but is not is a tricky line to negotiate, and writer beware: you will be attacked
14 April 2024, 15:33 PM
The chasm
At around 2 AM he was awoken by the sound of Shahidun’s sniveling cries on her prayer mat. As grating as it might have sounded, he felt grateful for it to have woken him up.
12 April 2024, 04:45 AM
5 short books you can read and finish on Eid day
Here is a list of 5 short and swift books for fellow bookworms (people who would much rather stay in than socialise) to nestle in with on this Eid day.
11 April 2024, 04:45 AM
'Cube': Sehri Tales selections, Day 30
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 30 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Cube.
10 April 2024, 16:30 PM
'Call': Sehri Tales selections, Day 29
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 29 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Call
9 April 2024, 19:41 PM
5 of your favourite iftar items as books
The youthful adventurers in the story spare no effort in unravelling a mystery that proves as elusive as the unyielding strands of jilapi, while also exploring deeper, sweeter themes such as friendship.
9 April 2024, 04:45 AM
'Urge': Sehri Tales selections, Day 28
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 28 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Urge
8 April 2024, 20:00 PM
"It's the start of a conversation": Journalist Kavita Puri on producing a podcast series on the Bengal famine
In the latest documentary podcast series “Three Million”, journalist Kavita Puri seeks to answer this haunting question: “How do three million people just disappear?” by talking to some of the last surviving witnesses, including Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.
8 April 2024, 13:45 PM
'Liberation': Sehri Tales selections, Day 27
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 27 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Liberation
7 April 2024, 20:00 PM
Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces winners for the 18th edition
The winners were announced on 4 April, 2024, with the ceremony being hosted by Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, chairman of the SZBA Board of Trustees
7 April 2024, 14:09 PM
'Duty': Sehri Tales selections, Day 26
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 26 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Duty
6 April 2024, 20:06 PM
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