I wonder at how these frugal, accessible pleasures define her daily existence and get elated with the fact that reading takes up a significant space on the shelf

We witness her ferocities that are little associated with the common understanding of a “just” ruler. We see her as a loving mother, while also finding the fallibilities of motherhood flawlessly seamed into the storytelling.

The book as a whole is a rigorously pursued exercise in the close reading of a fascinating and diverse array of modern texts that aren't quite in the category of the canonical mainstream.

This book is a fantastic introduction to Haruki Murakami’s world of literature.

Shorn of its sacred grandeur the Padma has embraced its secularised and earthier image with some muscularity, audacity and flair.

These books reflect a part of the world and culture in which we live.

While Canada, and now some programs in the UK, have also started offering the degree, it is in the United States that it is most common and rigorous.

“Eat, My darling, or else your goulash will become cold”

Star Literature will be hosting a short story reading session moderated by Sarah Anjum Bari, the Books and Literary Editor of The Daily Star, on Friday at 4PM.

Children’s books might end up giving us more as adults than they did to us as children.

In celebration of Gabriel Garcia Márquez, born on this day, March 6, 1927.

An innovative and compact method of training that empowers teachers to conduct classes in an effective manner has to be designed.

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first sixteen years of Sultana Nahar's life. "Mercolized Wax" is the second chapter in the book.

Sukirtharani, a poet from Tamil Nadu whose works of literature explore the lives of Dalit women in India, has refused to accept the Devi Award in a recent award ceremony.

All of it–the material right for my level, the books a bit too adult for me at the time, the texts where I could only guess at the brilliance but would have to shelve until I could revisit them a couple of decades later for better comprehension–all of it has led me to become myself: For better or for worse. 

I was nine years of age the first time I set eyes on a Dhaka street. I received my first welcome from a group of beggars tapping on my car window.

I believe a literary atmosphere is crucial to nourish your writing skills and it’s an essential part of the process.

When I think of the thick limestone walls of the house now I think of the essence of the generations of our family that it has absorbed.

The dance of the tongue is just as beautiful as the word itself. Effulgent wind, effulgent rain of twilight moon, effulgent sky.

Abdus Selim’s translation and compilation is a time machine for all of us living in the new age, where poems have become much neutered.