Remembering Virginia Woolf with her best novels

One of the foremost modernists of the Twentieth century, Virginia Woolf gained fame for her nonlinear, free prose style which not only inspired her peers but also earned her accolade. Yesterday was her 134th birth anniversary and to commemorate the day we have put together a list of the writer’s most iconic works.
26 January 2016, 10:20 AM

A wistful sense of nostalgia

Neeman Sobhan'sbook of short stories “Piazza Bangladesh” is a collection of eleven short stories, richly layered and delicately nuanced, that convey an amazing diversity of insights into different spaces, both actual and of the mind.
24 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Tale of two ghazal kings

It was memory-evoking undertaking for this reviewer to go through the two books written on two maestros of ghazals who belonged to two different times. The first book is titled "Talat Mahmood: The Velvet Voice" authored by Manek Premchand and the other is "Baat Niklegi Toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh" by Sathya Saran. The first book has been published by Manipal University Press and the second one by HarperCollins Publishers India.
24 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Refashioning of the Revenge Mode

My copy of the novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif was published by Random House India from London in 2009. It's a paperback edition consisting of 364 pages, and the yellow cover shows the image of a black crow, not mangoes, being exploded. It's Hanif's debut novel and it received rave reviews from major international newspapers such as the NY Times, Washington Post and the Guardian.
24 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Recycling Shakespeare

Hogarth Press has commissioned a series of 'retellings' of Shakespeare plays. First to appear is Jeanette Winterson's take on The Winter's Tale.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

DISTILLED, DELICATE, DEFINITIVE: SUDEEP SEN'S OEUVRE

Fractals is an encounter with a design paradigm, a certain matryoshka revelation of dolls-within-dolls.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

5,316 win BSK reading awards

A total of 5,316 secondary school students of 80 Chittagong schools won awards yesterday in the Bishwa Sahitya Kendra's (BSK) book
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

The sound of rain

The fluffy white puffs turned to a discordant grey
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Incongruity

I see a black darkness
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Human Shield

Rashna set out to meet Abedin on the Saturday after the incident at the procession, and on the way to the hospital in a rickshaw, she debated whether she was doing the right thing. It wasn't her responsibility to keep in touch with Abedin, but they had shared a perilous experience together, which seemed to make them more than strangers. They were both supposed to have been cut into pieces by Taleb and his men, but had miraculously survived. It still seemed unreal to Rashna because this sort of thing only happens in Bollywood movies.
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Rajshahi book fair on history starts

A two-day book fair on history began in Rajshahi city yesterday, organised by Bangladesh Itihas Sammilani.
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

6,471 win BSK reading awards

A total of 6,471 students have won awards in the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro's (BSK) book reading programme last year.
15 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Poet Rafiq Azad at ICU

Renowned poet Rafiq Azad is admitted to the ICU of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka following a stroke.
15 January 2016, 14:17 PM

I NEEDED THIS BOOK

I haven't written a book review in a long time, because I didn't come across any that was out-of-the-box.
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Brick kiln rules breach adding to pollution

Very few brick kilns in Bangladesh have been built following the proper design, resulting in huge environmental pollution, experts said
9 January 2016, 18:00 PM

You Can't Just Leave

Tobias Wolff would like to think his first published novel, “Ugly Rumours”, did not exist. It does not come up on any official list of his publications...
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM

HUMAN SHIELD

Rashna suddenly heard one of her classmates shout, “Look that's Abedin! They're going to kill him!” Rashna turned to see a young man on the ground and recognized Abedin immediately. He was their batch-mate, an attentive and serious student who
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM

OUTSIDER

Sometimes I walk away from plights in my life
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Book fair starts on SCBA premises Jan 10

A week-long book fair will begin from January 10 on the premises of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Education ministry should publish Braille textbooks

Textbooks for visually impaired school students should be published by the education ministry in 2017, not by the social welfare ministry, a training session was told yesterday.
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM