Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the top-ranking English writers of the eighteenth century. He is widely known as a satirist.

WITH the current occurrence of religious intolerance and rise of fundamentalism, the publication of Buddhist Heritage of Bangladesh is a welcome relief.

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When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.

When I read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James a few years ago, it took away my peace of mind for some days with its terrific

The book Dus k Dawn And Liberation is compelling reading. This is the ultimate test of any book, fact, fiction or fusion of both.

There are people who seem to be genetically inclined to act like Mary's contrary lamb. Kamal Siddiqui, a former civil servant who had

Tagore's reception outside India is quite an interesting subject. He was an insatiate globetrotter who had travelled vastly on both sides

Wuthering Heights is one of the best-known novels in the history of English literature. This novel tells a love story packed with passion

The book, “Family Furnishings”, is the most recent collection of short stories written by Alice Munro and includes 24 stories written

Rabindranath: Ashukh Bishukh is an outside-the-box but well-written book on Rabindranath Tagore by Mihirkanti

This book is a build-up on the theories and experiences of a patriot, teacher and business thinker. Constructed in

The book, “The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East”, is a popular history book by Oxford

When the profound thoughts of a scholar on myriad topics are collated with the mastery of a classic artist, the anthology becomes a repository of knowledge and a reader finds it worthwhile to embark on a journey down its winding path to quench his thirst.

The content of the book is the theme of Ph.D research of Dr. Sharif Asrafuzzaman, who has been working in Meghna Petroleum for many years.

Following a spate of some ponderous reading not infrequently embellished by otherwise unnecessary, usually superfluous, quotes and dictums from postmodernist gurus and other monishis, probably with the notion of providing their efforts with a grand “intellectual” veneer...

The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Philip Swanson is an analytical book containing essays by eminent literary scholars on the fictional works of Garcia Marquez. Penetrative essays by Donald Shaw, Robin Fiddian, Steven Boldy, Raymond Williams, Claire Taylor and Gerald Martin have made this book a highly educative text for students and pedagogues scrutinizing the stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Human Rights in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Futures, edited by Imtiaz Ahmed, comes out with the stated intention of presenting the past, present and future of a key human issue in Bangladesh.

Patrick Modiano is not a popular household name, anywhere not even in the Anglophone academic and literary world.

If you grew up as a teenager in the 1960s (and in the 1950s, or in the early1970s), and had knowledge and experience of the life led by the upper crust society in then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), going through Niaz Zaman's The Maidens' Club might very well bring about a sense of déjà vu or nostalgia, or both, in you.