CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
In 1970s Azimpur, the two Eids and Durga Puja were the punctuation marks of our year—days when stairwells, verandas, and a single playground turned many flats into one home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The flavours of Eid and the memory of home
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
The Shelf / Chand raat in Dhaka through the eyes of literary characters
27 May 2026, 23:33 PM
The Shelf
THE SHELF / The knife is always ready 5 books for the season of sacrifice
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Pias Majid: The poet of the moonlight conference
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Nazrul cannot be contained within a singular frame
25 May 2026, 09:00 AM
Culture
Essay / Anti-colonial resistance in Kazi Nazrul Islam’s essays
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Essay / Raja Rammohun Roy: An architect of Asian cosmopolitan modernity
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
21 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
Thorns in My Quilt (Rupa Publications India, 2024) unfolds through address rather than disclosure. Written as a series of letters to her father, Mohua Chinappa’s memoir traces memory not as a sequence of events, but as an emotional inheritance shaped by silence, expectation, and the subtle negotiations that govern family life.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
Two Palestinian writers, Omar Hamad and Ibrahim Massri, have been working since late 2025 to build a library in Gaza during the ongoing genocide. The Phoenix Library is located in the heart of Gaza City and, per a post from the library’s Twitter/X account, is fast approaching its official opening date despite the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine still being subject to Israeli apartheid violence.
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin, 2025) continues to solidify its place in the zeitgeist and its cultural impact well into 2026, with its recent win at this year’s US National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in the Autobiography category.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
Fragments of memory and regret
The proof that Dr Niaz Zaman is an amazing writer lies in the fact that she knows exactly how to wound you with four words: “You are too late.”
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Leonard Cohen: Verses of mercy and turmoil
Before he was “Leonard Cohen—the celebrated singer”, he was “Cohen, the poet”.
22 October 2025, 13:45 PM
3 Partition stories for young readers
Here are three books on Partition that can be added to not only your child's but your own reading list.
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM
‘Barisal and Beyond’ reprinted: Celebrating Clinton B. Seely’s essays on Bangla literature
Dr Seely’s story in Bangladesh begins in Barisal Zilla School in 1963, while working as a volunteer for the American Peace Corps.
19 October 2025, 13:29 PM
A bit of Fry & Homer
Stephen Fry’s series, from the creation stories of Mythos and the monster-slaying of Heroes to the martial gore of Troy and now the cunning of Odyssey, is an undertaking of remarkable scale.
18 October 2025, 11:15 AM
Free at last
“If my father had any unpaid debt to anyone, please contact me or my younger brother Hamza,” Omar said to the congregation at the funeral, trying to sound soft and loud at the same time, “And if my father ever hurt any of you unintentionally, please forgive his soul and pray for him. Thank you.”
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
Autumnal offerings for seasonal readers
As summer draws to an end in the Northern hemisphere, a certain kind of booklover prepares to shift to the next set of items on their TBR (To Be Read) list. Because whether or not you are a fan of spooky stories, the arrival of autumn–and with it, Halloween–evokes in many a sense of seasonal cre
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
5 books to rescue you from brainrot
Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
Why academic writing deserves to be beautiful
The refusal to write beautifully is often justified in the name of neutrality, of detachment, of discipline.
17 October 2025, 04:45 AM
A mundane tragedy
In her first book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Anchor, 1999), Kiran Desai wrote a comic fable of a man who escapes the world by climbing a tree.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The death of the film and the rise of its maker
Novels that explore the life of a filmmaker are few and far between. When I think of a film, it’s usually the actors that are at the center of my attention and more and more recent novels attest to that.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Babitz vs. Ephron: The cool girls from the coast
Where Babitz is like the intimidating older sister you could only listen to in an obsessed quiet, Ephron feels more like a friend translating my internal monologue into the perfect words.
15 October 2025, 13:45 PM
Navigating the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
This year’s Booker Prize will be announced on November 10 in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and livestreamed on Booker Prize’s social channels.
12 October 2025, 10:49 AM
A good teacher teaches; an extraordinary teacher inspires
Today, I stood quietly for a while in front of Room 2064 on the second floor of the Arts Building—a place where I had stood countless times before, each time leaving with his warmth and affection.
11 October 2025, 16:00 PM
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
The hair fair
On the northern side of Dholgram, a very large field hosts a fair every year–a Hair Fair, where people gather to show off their hair. The one who has the longest hair gets the highest honour. All kinds of hair can be seen–entangled, shiny, untidy, thin, black, and grey–all sorts of hairy people
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
Transmutation
The torn tune of a broken violin.Signifies the evanescence of joy..So many faded voices intermingle .This day and the night. .Moonlight has disappeared .In the sky overcast with commingled clouds. .The wind is sombre with the sadness .Of Bismillah’s ‘she
10 October 2025, 19:10 PM
The tragedy of ‘Demon Slayer’
As 'Demon Slayer' grips the world with its engaging story and out-of-the-world visuals, one can’t help but wonder about the anime’s tragedy hidden behind its scenic moments and painful farewells
10 October 2025, 14:30 PM
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Wins for his 'compelling and visionary oeuvre'
9 October 2025, 11:21 AM
Nobel literature buzz tips Western male author
Experts give nod to an Australian, a Romanian, a Swiss and two Hungarians
9 October 2025, 06:47 AM
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