Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sends a message thanking the Swedish academy for awarding him the Nobel prize for literature, an honor the American singer and songwriter believes is about as likely as "standing on the moon."

In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth imagines two years of alternative history for the United States.

Daddy died, Black beard grew: mommy left me.

Every morning I wake up with a fear, After so many sweet dreams

Renowned poets from all over the country

Beneath the dissolved, age eaten luminous stone,

Springtime in Melbourne, her fifth time in this abode of blood-ties and new generation, but her first in this season of renewal.

Jasper Francois Dent, does the name sound like that of a sociopath? Because that's what Jasper, the protagonist in the book, keeps wondering about the whole time.

As the title suggests, Saiful Islam's book 'Muslin: Our Story' is a detailed study of a traditional craft. However, it is considerably more than that, as he uses the subject to elicit a much broader cultural history of Bengal.

The national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam was a versatile genius who had left his indelible marks in all branches of Bangla literature and culture.

There is an entirely justifiable lament in Bangladesh regarding the lack of sound scholarly materials on the country, particularly those produced by Bangladeshi academics themselves.

Sometimes the web of obscurity becomes visibly so obvious to the viewer that such obscurity emerges as clarity.

This was 1973. Bangladesh had been born only about two years before. I was on my way back to Dhaka after attending a seminar in Belgrade, capital of the then Yugoslavia.

From ransacked temples and torched ancestral homestead,

Two pieces of roti or a red earthen plateful

Ever since he appeared on the New York folk scene, presenting himself as an anonymous exile from a place of no distinct identity – “My name it means nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from it's called the Midwest” – Bob Dylan has worked to elude definition.

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul inaugurates the Dhaka Literary Festival, with this the three-day festival kicks off at the Bangla Academy premises.

Ihave always been intrigued by the historical novel. Some of it is composed around real historical figures, events, and locations,

The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the greatest epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan

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