Fiction / Where the blood doesn’t speak
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
When Reza was 10, war lived on the rooftop.
Poetry / Incomplete
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / Leftovers
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
News Report / Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize following AI review
3 July 2026, 20:09 PM
News
Essay / ‘Where My Darlings Lie Buried’: Navigating grief with Sufia Kamal through poetry
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Graphic Novel / Till human voices wake us and we drown
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
News Report / Dua Lipa launches library of banned and censored books in Portugal
2 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / Of faith, desire, and the threshold between
30 June 2026, 17:22 PM
Reviews
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
26 June 2026, 15:30 PM
Features
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?
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
News Report / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News Report / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026, 22:03 PM
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
Event Report / Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
19 May 2026, 14:26 PM
The bilingual poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved, (Oitijjhya, 2026) by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud was launched on Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event was organised by Oitijjhya Publications and moderated by Mostafa Mushfiq.
Event Report / Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
17 May 2026, 17:16 PM
Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
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, 00:00 AM
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay / Ghosts in the secretariat: Mapping the Bangladeshi Gothic
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
Four leaf clover
In cold evenings, when the forecaster
predicts a scatter of hail to fall
21 February 2026, 01:16 AM
Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
Even after the organisers and Bangla Academy offered a 55 percent subsidy on stall costs, a significant number of publishers maintained their decision to not participate.
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
Money and language: Transaction and tension
In addition to today’s transnational corporations and the global explosion of their advertisements, the works of William Shakespeare and Karl Marx keep teaching us a great deal about the relationship between money and language.
19 February 2026, 00:00 AM
5 books to help you wind down after your 9-to-5
After a workday full of tabs, pings, and “oh just a quick call,” your brain usually wants one of two things: something soft enough to sink into, or something sharp enough to cut through the fog. These 5 do both, in different ways, without asking you to optimise your rest.
19 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Arundhati Roy skips Berlinale over Gaza comments and festival response
Arundhati Roy, celebrated Indian writer, essayist, and activist, has recently been at the centre of a controversy surrounding the Berlin International Film Festival regarding comments on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
17 February 2026, 19:09 PM
Faiz Ahmad Faiz: When romanticism weaved into revolution
He made poetry a refuge for beauty and a weapon against tyranny
14 February 2026, 22:10 PM
Rediscovering the heroes we were never taught
Because of colonialism and the westernisation of our education systems, many of us grow up learning history from a narrow angle not knowing about the scholars who shaped knowledge in other parts of the world. We often learn about modern science without learning where many of its ideas first came from. As a result, the lives and works of Muslim scholars from the past remain unfamiliar, even though their contributions helped build the world we live in today.
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
If characters from different books went on a date
Sometimes it sneaks up in ways you do not expect, like in the quiet chaos of a city street where rain drips off umbrellas, and the smell of frying snacks mingles with wet asphalt.
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
From autumn to winter in the northeast England
There are a few old trees with wide trunks—I do not know their names—just beside my library. I never forget to have a quick look at the leaves during coming and going to the library.
7 February 2026, 01:54 AM
Flipkart
Using a hashtag is activism
In a world of biterature.
7 February 2026, 01:31 AM
I, a woman
My brittle nails become the sharpest knife
Under the light of obscure scrutiny
7 February 2026, 01:30 AM
Khushwant Singh remembered: Legacy, language and Indian writing
As the calendar turned to February 2, 2026, marking what would have been the 111th birthday of Khushwant Singh, the silence from his iconic Sujan Singh Park residence feels particularly loud. Singh was more than a writer; he was a cultural weather vane who pointed toward honesty even when the winds of political correctness blew the hardest.
5 February 2026, 16:16 PM
The wilderness in me
The God of the Woods caught my attention while I was excavating for my next read on Goodreads.
5 February 2026, 00:00 AM
A dream rewritten: Rokeya’s radical vision and its cinematic afterlife
“There is no place on earth where women are safe,” declares Inés, the protagonist of Isabel Herguera’s animated film Sultana’s Dream (2023).
5 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Little Grey
It is a winter day in a small town at the far eastern edge of the Himalaya, in the Chinese province of Yunnan. The province is known for its mild climate.
31 January 2026, 08:31 AM
Bangladesh Theater Archives: Transforming history into a 40-year legacy
In a small room in 50 Purana Paltan line, shelves groan under the weight of posters, photographs, tickets, flyers, souvenirs, folders, books, and fading documents.
31 January 2026, 08:28 AM
The anti-dystopia: Why solarpunk is the future of science fiction
For years, speculative dystopian fiction has trained readers to expect the worst: scorched planets, collapsing governments, ruthless technologies, and futures where survival is the only victory left. Solarpunk pushes back against that narrative. Instead of asking how the world ends, it asks a far more radical question: what if we fix it? What if cities worked with nature instead of against it? What if technology served communities, not corporations? And what if hope wasn’t naive, but necessary?
29 January 2026, 16:00 PM
A firebrand’s journey to Washington from Barisal
“Agunmukha” translates to “fire-mouth” in English. The word mirrors the tumultuous life of Noorjahan Bose, shaped by her early years in cyclone- and flood-prone small towns of Barisal; her experience of sexual violence at the age of 10; the loss of Imamuddin, her first love and husband, to smallpox; single motherhood; and her later marriage to Swadesh Bose, a Hindu man—an interfaith union opposed by society.
29 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Through Agnes’ eyes: Reimagining Shakespeare’s lost years in ‘Hamnet’
One of the great pleasures of reading enough of the plays of William Shakespeare is that, after a while, you feel like you know him. British actor Patrick Stewart famously stated, “...he feels like an old friend—someone who just went out [...] to get another bottle of wine.” While Shakespeare scholars have succeeded in creating a rough Shakespeare biography based on historical documents, many of them will admit that there are large gaps in our knowledge.
29 January 2026, 00:00 AM
On his 76th death anniversary: The other side of George Orwell
It is undoubted that George Orwell is one of the most important political writers of the 20th century. Labelling him a political writer reflects how deeply his life and works were influenced by the events he lived through.
28 January 2026, 17:46 PM
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