CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / From autumn to winter in the northeast England
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POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
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LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
19 November 2025, 10:28 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
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FICTION / The dawn’s return
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
Fiction
Poetry / Silence, our witness
22 August 2025, 19:02 PM
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The morgues are full
In Gaza, the names of the martyrs slip through silence, lost to a world too distracted to listen
4 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Making headlines
We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead
4 April 2025, 18:00 PM
6 literary characters we wish could join our Eid table
What if our Eid table had a few extra chairs reserved not for guests from our world but from that of the books we’ve loved throughout our life?
4 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Once Upon an Eid
S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed (eds.)Amulet Books, 2020
28 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Of glitter pens, prestige, and Eids in Dhaka
Being a Dhakaite, your Eids in childhood were spent in mournful longings for something to happen.
28 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Your guide to feminist resistance
This International Women’s Day, Star Books and Literature brings to you a list of five books that delve into the history of feminist movements and feminist resistance.
7 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Retribution
Mohsin would burst into laughter, saying, "Justice for rape? Is that even a crime worthy of justice?"
Rabeya, laughing alongside him, would add, "People expect justice for rape these days? I'm speechless at their naïveté!"
7 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Broken bridges don’t burn
face to face, 20 taka in my pocket and
this keyless map
do you think love ever ends?
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Sighs, ember and lies.
Pebbles strewn pavement
Keep drawing me back
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Moving forward
I hope you fight with your mother when you have a migraine, / I hope there's a holud ceremony playing item songs right beside your building
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
This world is full of paper
at night I look past my window / moon like a bruise hoisted on the shoulder of onlookers / as they draw their curtains
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Titled 'Loss'
you don't recognise yourself, / everything is lost like a fish in Lethean space. / you have mistaken truth for love again
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
There is a point to this, I think
Here are a few things I learned in the one month we haven’t spoken
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Finding Obayed Haque: A contemporary writer who lives in his words
If you pick up an Obayed Haque novel, you won’t find an author’s photo, a detailed biography, or even a note about his life.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM
'Bhasha Andoloner Itihash' by Bashir Al Helal
Tracing back the events before the Language Movement of 1952, Al Helal presents a detailed account of the events that unfolded during February 1952.
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Hilly river
Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs
The hilly river has let the hair loose
21 February 2025, 18:00 PM
The stranger
In an obscure restaurant in an anonymous suburb
7 February 2025, 18:00 PM
The heart remains a stone that does not skip through water
You tell me stories of the sea—of its waves, of how it speaks to you in a language only you can understand—whenever you write back to me.
7 February 2025, 18:00 PM
The melted melody of a surreal life
Tell me, how far you want to descend
Into your own abyss?
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Exit wounds
Tell me
I am not a house without exits.
Leave
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM