Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
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On June 19, 2026, the occasion was the 20th staging of “Love Letters”, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, translated and adapted into Bangla by writer and translator Professor Abdus Selim. Directed by veteran theatre actor and director Tropa Majumdar and staged by Group Theatre at the Dr. Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium, the production brought together the acting power couple, Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar. Their performances transformed what could have easily been a simple reading of letters into something deeply intimate and profoundly human.
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Solitude
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Poetry / Scorching silence
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / To pick or not to pick a bone
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Book Review: Fiction / When ‘Little Women’ turns to murder: Katie Bernet reimagines a classic
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The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
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The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
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Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
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Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Illuminating the past and the present: The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
5 May 2026, 21:50 PM
The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, recognising publications, publication staff, individual journalists, and authors across 23 award categories for journalism, reporting, criticism, photography, authorship, and overall excellence in their fields. The winners for each category were announced on May 4,2026 via live broadcasts on the Pulitzer Prizes website and YouTube channel.
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
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
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Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
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The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
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ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
On Edward Said: Different shades of an intellectual
Edward Said is one of only a handful of intellectuals who can truly be said to have educated and influenced multiple generations on the Palestinian cause and the different prisms of thought through which we now look at literature, art, and history. In many ways, we are the heirs of the man who popularised the term, “Orientalism”; a man who championed the voices and struggles of the Global South in the Anglo-American sphere.
7 January 2021, 11:44 AM
Roses bloom in concrete in Angie Thomas' sequel to 'The Hate U Give'
If you thought the unapologetically outspoken Starr Carter from The Hate U Give (Balzer + Bray, 2017) was a force to be reckoned with, it’s time you met the man who raised her to be so: Maverick Carter.
7 January 2021, 11:33 AM
The Metamorphosis of a Country
The epigraph of The Old Drift (Hogarth Press, 2020), taken from Vigil’s The Aeneid, briefly narrates the story of a diverse civilisation thriving on the banks of Lethe, the river of forgetfulness that “somnolently” drifts past a “populous throng” of spirits.
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM
5 New Books to Look Out For in 2021
Asha Ray is a coder who, upon reconnecting with a high school love interest, abandons her PhD program to write a new algorithm for an exclusive tech firm.
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Whose Land Is It Anyway?
Land—its ownership, its deep history, its uses and abuses—forms the subject of best-selling historian Simon Winchester’s new book,
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Author Rabeya Khatun Passes Away at 86
Prolific writer Rabeya Khatun, a recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Award 1973, Ekushey Padak 1993, and the Independence Day Award 2017, passed away on January 3, 2021 after suffering from a long period of health complications.
6 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Neither Tranquil Mandarins nor Yellow Devils
Many centuries ago, Chinese pilgrims came up the Bay of Bengal on their way to Buddhist sites in the Subcontinent. We have no record of their conversations with the people of Bengal but it was the accurate accounts of early Chinese travellers that enabled archaeologists in the 19th century to rediscover the lost Buddhist sites like that inside a hill at Paharpur.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Unmindful
I forbade the clouds to sprawl around this flood plain-
the clouds unendingly somersault around
my windowpane at the beckoning of
drooping hillocks though.
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
There is No Pause
with its fortress of mahals, brimming with Earth’s treasure, gardens and illusions
from the eye of the vulture’s flight,
past the roadside dhabas,
past the colossal statues and solitary temples, dotting the horizon resting
comfortably atop Bygone mosques,
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
When?
The scents and colours of the morning
arouse the wetness of the night.
The dewdrop splendour awakens the
dawning sunrise drenched in colours
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Daily Star Books’ Favourite Reads of 2020
Out of all the books that I had to speed through for work this year, Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind was an exception.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Reading Re(ar)view: A Wrap on Reading Challenges and Recording Stats
As the final pages of 2020 flick away, a lot of us find ourselves cracking open our diaries, or signing into our reading apps to log in the last few books of the year.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM
“What I read in 2020”: Writers Select
We asked some of the prominent writers and academics from Bangladesh about the books they most enjoyed in 2020. Some of them confessed that the year has been too difficult to find much time for reading.
30 December 2020, 18:00 PM
The Wind’s Only Recourse
The wind afire
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Girl, Woman, Other: A Review
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo is a beautiful rendition of the intertwining lives of people in modern Britain. Twelve people, most of whom are women, each dedicated a chapter, are seen in the best and worst moments of their lives.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Regeneration
I couldn’t get to my university hostel. From Petaling Jaya to Pantai Hill Park, KL Central and Mid Valley, changing one bus after the other; no one knew where my hostel was.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
The Season of Comfy Reads
Is it just us, or do the cold winds of December make you want to bring down your favourite childhood stories, classics hardcovers, and delicious thrillers from your shelves too?
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM
The Hypocrisy of Marriage in South Asia
It is a truth universally acknowledged by her many fans that Jane Austen’s sharp wit, complex characters, subtle social reproach, and tantalising storytelling are almost unparalleled.
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Repulsive, But For A Reason
The mind of ten-year-old Jas—the narrator of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s 2020 International Booker Prize-winning The Discomfort of Evening (Faber Books,
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM
The Politics of Losing Home
In August 2017, the Myanmar military perpetrated a genocide on the Rohingyas, an ethnic group residing in Northern Rakhine. Large numbers of Rohingyas were killed,
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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