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The Shelf / 5 books that capture the soul of lunar exploration

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Here are five books that celebrate the curiosity that took us to the moon. Not for conquest, but for humanity, and for the simple, profound need to know.

CREATIVE NONFICTION / Melbourne: Where weather performs live

4 April 2026, 04:10 AM Books & Literature

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

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

Sumaiya Tasnim

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

Abdus Selim

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

Sakib Ahmed

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

Subhoranjan Dasgupta

Non-fiction review

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An unintentional gatecrasher

Tahmina Hossain

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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The wilderness in me

Tahmina Hossain

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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

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

Azfar Hussain

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

Naseef Faruque Amin

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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

‘Record’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 23

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 23 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Record.

15 April 2023, 16:29 PM

Navigating cancel culture in the literary world

Cancel culture is best treated as a collective decision to minimise the cultural influence a person and their work have moving forward.

15 April 2023, 12:45 PM

Why so serious?

Falling into the comfortable rhythm of a familiar form, it took scant minutes to bang out a silly poem that made me laugh and melted away all the tension, and it took me back to why I created Sehri Tales in the first place.

15 April 2023, 10:55 AM

‘Hurt’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 22

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 22 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Hurt

14 April 2023, 16:38 PM

Escapril: How a poetry writing challenge curates community

The Instagram account for Escapril posts all 30 prompts for the month ahead of time, and the poet is only required to write by taking inspiration from said prompts

14 April 2023, 12:45 PM

‘Drinks with a Ghost’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 21

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 21 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Drinks with a Ghost

13 April 2023, 16:07 PM

Piracy a main reason for New Market’s Zeenat bookstore closing down

Zeenat Book Supply, a New Market staple for book lovers since 1963, will close shop on May 1, 2023.

13 April 2023, 10:34 AM

6 books to enjoy the spirit of Pahela Baishakh

These books, among many others, can help readers feel the spirit of the Bangali new year in all its vibrant colours

13 April 2023, 08:33 AM

The great Padma story

Shorn of its sacred grandeur the Padma has embraced its secularised and earthier image with some muscularity, audacity and flair.

13 April 2023, 07:47 AM

‘Read’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 20

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 20 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Read

12 April 2023, 14:04 PM

When readers write the book

This public typewriter experiment was also a personal experience for him as he first fell in love with typewriters when he came across his grandfather’s 1930s Smith Corona. As a struggling writer at that time, this machine was what made writing to him a joyous experience.

12 April 2023, 12:45 PM

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