Books

Flash Fiction / The knife seller

Maria Anis Chowdhury

18 July 2026, 00:00 AM Books & Literature

Veteran singer Ferdausi Rahman’s autobiography launched at Bengal Shilpalay

Sadman Ahmed Siam

8 July 2026, 01:08 AM Books

What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI

Jannatul Naym Pieal

3 July 2026, 15:04 PM Literature

The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary

Sara Kabir

19 June 2026, 00:00 AM The Shelf

What to read / What we’re reading this week

14 May 2026, 00:00 AM What to read

Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters

Najmus Sakib

1 May 2026, 00:00 AM Non-fiction review

Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice

Touseful Islam

28 April 2026, 20:10 PM Literature

Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent

Rufaiya Zia Nuha

24 April 2026, 00:00 AM Books & Literature

Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance

Namrata

24 April 2026, 00:00 AM ⁠⁠Features

Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory

Dowel Biswas

13 April 2026, 20:12 PM Culture

Port of Tranquility

On a sun baked plateau, infused with the hue of stained blood and brown bread, caressed by the waves of the immortal spirit, which

10 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Dhaka on a sad day

With pedal click the rickshaw's here

10 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Catmoir

Cats are to be hated. And their whining, which some might lovingly define as meowing, is nothing but tiresome whimpering. At least

10 November 2017, 18:00 PM

With Sukhu Mia across Bangladesh

Dogs usually live for some ten to thirteen years. Small sized breeds may live a little longer, but the bigger the size, the smaller the

10 November 2017, 18:00 PM

In Memoriam

Some memories like unexploded grenades

3 November 2017, 18:00 PM

History is Muse

The muse offers herself in full glory;

3 November 2017, 18:00 PM

The Listener of Stories

My mother says I have always been a quick learner; I can remember her stories well. I can retell them in front of people, copying her

3 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Poetry with Emily Dickinson

Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with

3 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute

Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia

3 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Flashback

The idea of this poem came to Shahidul in 2012, soon after his Sussex MA dissertation on Modernism, where Eliot was one of his

27 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Was Marx Really Right?

Readers familiar with Terry Eagleton's work would have no doubt from the title of his Why Marx Was Right that it would offer a strong

27 October 2017, 18:00 PM

October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania

Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;

27 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Some Scattered Thoughts on the Russian Revolution

It seems our era has just stumbled upon its second major crisis—one brought about fascism. The rise of xenophobic racism, religious

27 October 2017, 18:00 PM

A novel swinging back and forth through time

Set in the North of London in the beginning, Zadie Smith's fifth novel, “Swing Time”, tells us the story of two childhood friends whose paths diverge as they grow up, and the challenges of growing up fuel the diversion.

25 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Chile poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, deepen mystery: Experts

A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.

21 October 2017, 04:36 AM