Books & Literature

CREATIVE NONFICTION / Melbourne: Where weather performs live

4 April 2026, 04:10 AM 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

4 April 2026, 04:05 AM Books & Literature

NEWS REPORT / “Six books that reverberate with history, humanity, heartbreak, and hope”: 2026 International Booker Prize shortlist announced

2 April 2026, 17:32 PM ⁠⁠News

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

Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / 'Songs of Desire and Defiance' explores spiritual anatomy and womanhood

Sumaiya Tasnim

Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / The spark of ‘Red Spark’

Abdus Selim

Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Fragile, floating, enduring: Reading ‘Fenaphul’

Sakib Ahmed

Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Homage to Rani-ma on her centenary year

Subhoranjan Dasgupta

Non-fiction review

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An unintentional gatecrasher

Tahmina Hossain

Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The wilderness in me

Tahmina Hossain

Books & Literature

REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine

Iftehaz Yeasir Iftee

Reflection

Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.

INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering

Namrata

Books & Literature

REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai

Azfar Hussain

Books & Literature

REFLECTIONS / The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation

Naseef Faruque Amin

Books & Literature

⁠⁠News

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

Nazmun Afrad Sheetol

17 March 2026, 15:35 PM ⁠⁠News

REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela

Mahmuda Emdad

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

Sadman Ahmed Siam

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

Sara Kabir

14 December 2025, 08:17 AM Books & Literature

NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations

Sara Kabir

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

Arwin Shams Siddiquee

5 December 2025, 13:50 PM Books & Literature

Editor’s pick

FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

Iftehaz Yeasir Iftee

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

Anindita Roy

14 March 2026, 01:59 AM

CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B

Tashfia Ahmed

7 March 2026, 02:13 AM

ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after

Shababa Iqbal

27 February 2026, 00:05 AM

FICTION / Little Grey - Part 2

Rainer Ebert

21 February 2026, 01:27 AM

THE SHELF / If characters from different books went on a date

Agnila Roy

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

Iftehaz Yeasir Iftee

3 December 2025, 18:00 PM

To read as an academic: The transformative journey of a reader turned student

I became curious as to how the experience of reading might change for someone who studied it for a living, and how the lens of a literature student might differ from that of a creative writing one

22 March 2024, 14:15 PM

10 books to foster gratitude and pride during Ramadan

As the holy month of Ramadan continues, may these books serve as guiding lights, illuminating the path towards greater understanding, compassion, and happiness

22 March 2024, 08:20 AM

'Cheese': Sehri Tales selections, Day 10

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 10 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Cheese

21 March 2024, 20:00 PM

Sleepy ghost flight

You have made ice out of my heart;/ we were once nothing–you brutalise me

21 March 2024, 15:45 PM

'Long': Sehri Tales selections, Day 9

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 9 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Long

20 March 2024, 20:00 PM

A list of life lessons

Set in 1979, this is a story of monsters—the ones who prey on the vulnerable, the ones that exploit our weaknesses, and the ones that we elevate to positions of power.

20 March 2024, 18:00 PM

The first American months

The sun was up. The sky was a perfect cerulean blue, the neighbourhood blissfully quiet. Through my window, I relished the sunny first day of 2020, with a cup of tea in my hand.

20 March 2024, 18:00 PM

The smell

“Stop mocking me, Atif! I am telling you there is something here.”

20 March 2024, 15:45 PM

To the Newton of Gaza

Words were never my greatest strength/ But the arsonist's child will read them

20 March 2024, 14:00 PM

'Flick': Sehri Tales selections, Day 8

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 8 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Flick

20 March 2024, 07:43 AM

'Relief': Sehri Tales selections, Day 7

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 6 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Relief

18 March 2024, 20:00 PM

A flowing conversation at Dhaka Flow Festival 2024

On the midday of a warm spring, Dhaka Flow Fest 2024 organised a delightful reading session at Baridhara Lakeside Rajuk Park with authors Farah Ghuznavi, Neeman Sobhan, Salahdin Imam, and Nahiyan Ameen

18 March 2024, 16:00 PM