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
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
On poet Sufia Kamal: A revolutionary journey
She came out from the cocoon of the accepted designated roles of women and marched forward to live an extraordinary life.
23 November 2022, 11:44 AM
Children’s author Ali Imam no more
Ali Imam, the author of more than 600 books, breathed his last on Monday evening in the Bangladesh Medical College Hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.
21 November 2022, 15:40 PM
mouthful of moon
What moon might mean to you
21 November 2022, 09:07 AM
Simon & Schuster's owner to let sale to Penguin fall apart, sources say
Bertelsmann will owe Paramount a USD 200 million break-up fee as a result of the transaction falling apart.
21 November 2022, 08:55 AM
7 books to get you pumped up for football World Cup season
With the FIFA World Cup 2022 starting today, tensions run high around the country. Avid football fans have already dawned on their favourite team’s jerseys and hoisted their country’s flags alongside that of Bangladesh’s. The entire world will be glued to their tv screens till a winner emerges to claim the Football World Cup.
20 November 2022, 13:04 PM
Tales of a development sector doyen
The book doesn’t only become a memoir of the writer’s life as a development worker, but also a tribute to the late Sir Abed and his magnanimity as a human being and a visionary.
19 November 2022, 12:45 PM
On Gabriel García Márquez’s unpublished manuscript
She has been coming to this hotel for the last 28 years, ever since her mother died, and has chosen to stay in the exact same room as she does every year. She uses the same road from the hotel to travel to her mother’s resting place and buys flowers from the same African woman.
19 November 2022, 03:55 AM
Dear Mrs. Dalloway, I Will Be There
I am not ready to be a failure yet.
18 November 2022, 18:00 PM
TWO POEMS
Then it is time to return!
18 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Death will stop for you: A Letter
Today is your 50th birthday. Happy Birthday to you.
18 November 2022, 18:00 PM
In Iffat Nawaz’s debut novel, 1971 is not an open wound
Shurjo’s Clan uses magic realism to conjure Shurjomukhi’s freedom fighter uncles, who were martyred in Sylhet’s tea gardens during the 1971 Liberation War, and her grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the 1947 Partition.
18 November 2022, 07:34 AM
Ramayana's evil stepmother redeemed in Vaishnavi Patel's 'Kaikeyi'
As a debut novel, Patel has done a remarkable job in crafting a compelling story through her richly descriptive writing. However, there is room for critique within the core premise of the novel.
17 November 2022, 08:55 AM
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero
Nehru was revolted by Nazism and the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Bose…felt that the Indian struggle for freedom should override all other considerations.
17 November 2022, 05:46 AM
Bangladesh at the FOSWAL Literature Festival November 2022
FOSWAL (Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature) was initiated in 1987 and it has since been fostering the writers and literature of SAARC countries.
16 November 2022, 01:55 AM
HarperCollins union begins strike, citing wages, diversity
In recent years, entry- and mid-level employees throughout publishing have been increasingly vocal on social media about their unhappiness with wages, workloads and diversity.
14 November 2022, 08:37 AM
Himu taught me it was okay to not be normal
Himu not only made me look beyond goals that lead to a luxury of life, but he also taught me to enjoy the tiny bits that make life agreeable.
13 November 2022, 11:45 AM
An encounter with Sandeep Ray
"I have lifted from these stories. I’ve stolen from these stories. But you know, I’ve remade the characters so they don’t directly relate to anyone’s biography. But I cannot deny that a lot of the anecdotes, events and arc of the story come from certain family experiences", states Sandeep Ray.
12 November 2022, 11:50 AM
'IN SENSORIUM' BY TANAÏS: The scent of the motherland
The reader might have encountered in their grammar books that the pronoun ‘tara’ in cholito bhasha comes from its shadhu form ‘tahara’. For some of us, years of formal schooling has cemented this etymology in our heads, rendering us unable to find an alternate reality. Breaking these moulds, the author declares, “The word ‘they’ is tara, the word for star”, encouraging one to take a pause and consider these homographs in a new light.
12 November 2022, 08:58 AM
ULAB’s 6th literary salon discusses the local publishing scene
The event is being hosted today, October 12, between 5 and 7 pm at The Auditorium, 6th Floor of ULAB Research Building, House 56, Road 4/A Dhanmondi. It is open for all.
12 November 2022, 06:46 AM
The Female Companion
Not so easy to assure someone
11 November 2022, 18:00 PM