Essay / A humanist in the age of AI
8 August 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
For centuries, literature asked us to believe that language is more than information, that it’s a rich repository of history, memory, grief, longing, humour, silence, and entire ways of seeing and making sense of the world.
Fiction / Sapiosexual
8 August 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Essay / Rabindranath, Nazrul, Jibanananda: Predecessor and contemporary
7 August 2026, 20:02 PM
Essay
Review: Short story of the month / Anxiety, unmarriedness, and ‘An Eye and a Leg’
6 August 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book review: Fiction / Three realms, one unforgettable love story
6 August 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Poetry / Ode to my girls
2 August 2026, 21:31 PM
Poetry
Essay / A beginner’s guide to ‘Khwabnama’
31 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book review: Nonfiction / Witnessing Alzheimer’s through Ernaux’s unflinching prose
31 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
News Report / The Booker Prize 2026 longlist blends acclaimed authors with fresh literary voices
30 July 2026, 16:10 PM
News
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
What becomes increasingly evident across Bahl’s three novels is her sustained fascination with the emotional significance of almosts and maybes.
News Report / Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize following AI review
3 July 2026, 20:09 PM
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
News Report / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News Report / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026, 22:03 PM
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
On June 6 and 7, 2026, at Goethe-Institut, Dhanmondi, Zine Mela Dhaka 2026 was held, organised by Sister Library (Dhaka) and Colors Publishing. The two-day event brought together independent artists, writers, and creators to celebrate self-publishing, artistic expression, and community engagement.
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
Not every story ends with rejoicing. Not all questions are answered within one lifetime. Not everyone will get to fulfil their dreams. All my protagonists are incomplete until the end. And the end itself offers no catharsis. It’s the same darkness that was present when the reader met them the first time. I write about the world and the people within it the way I have experienced the world.
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay / Ghosts in the secretariat: Mapping the Bangladeshi Gothic
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
From the Pens of a Daily Commuter
The scene must have caught attention of those people who tend to come and go through the Farmgate area. How old may that
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Literature by women—for women or for all?
In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath writes about a young woman, Esther Greenwood, experiencing the publishing industry on a summer internship, as well as life in New York City, for the first time.
2 August 2018, 18:00 PM
A book that makes you say "law, have mercy"
Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, The Help by Kathryn Stockett talks about racial segregation at its worst. The book is narrated by three very different women; Aibileen, a black maid who is raising her 'seventeenth white child', Minny, another black maid unable to keep a job due to her loud mouth and hot head, and Miss Skeeter, a white woman who wants to be a writer.
1 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Alpana Habib — “the happy homecook”
Almost four hundred prime-time television recipe shows. Over 24,000 Likes on the Facebook page, ‘Alpana Habibs Cooking Club.’
30 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Other Half
The inkwell is trembling, There is the smooth rise and fall of memories, The hesitant fingers wrap the quill, The words come alive on paper, Is the scheme of life completeness of whole?
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Good Muslim: A Post-Liberation War Bangladesh
“A novel asserts nothing; it provides a framework for thinking about things.” said Martin Amis, a British writer, in an interview with Rachel Cooke published in The Observer of 1 October 2006.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Other Half
The inkwell is trembling
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Good Muslim: A Post-Liberation War Bangladesh
“A novel asserts nothing; it provides a framework for thinking about things.” said Martin Amis, a British writer, in an interview with Rachel Cooke published in The Observer of 1 October 2006. Shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and long listed for the 2011 Man Asian Prize
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A Daughter of India vs. a Son of England
“Would not the immolation of a daughter of India and a son of England awaken India to its continued state of subjugation and England to the iniquities of its proceedings?” - Bina Das (1932).
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
From Fantasia with Love
Before I begin fan-girling over my Fairy Godfather, to quench the curious bibliophiles (like yours truly), the book I had been carrying around that day was Cornelia Funke's The Griffin's Feather!
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Fierce, Friendly Fire
Usually, newspaper pages are dedicated to venerable people who have passed away or won an award. The occasion for today's issue is neither.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Days of Our Likes
Lightning strikes, Thunder roars
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Our Story
Here, we stand in silence;
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Death of a Reader
It was a long time ago.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Aches and Auras
Shaji woke up with a pounding headache. The pain started in her sleep, so she thought she was only dreaming it. In her dream, she
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
UNTITLED
No, you have no home.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Letters to Namdeo Dhasal: Meditations of a Dalit Mystic
Over the last decade, India has been experiencing a major geo-political shift with respect to class, caste and communal relationships.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Ballad of Ayesha: Ayesha and Her Country
Just like Behula, the people of Bangladesh never stopped persevering …
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
'Great Expectations' of literary food
From cartoons to books to movies, there is one recurring theme that catches the eye and engages all sensory experiences, and true to Proust's belief, it is the pure, unadulterated joy of a good meal.
19 July 2018, 18:00 PM
No Murakami left behind
In the world of fiction, one name you are bound to have come across is Haruki Murakami. With his recent surge in popularity, you can now find an assortment of Murakamis in any old bookshop. That is why now is the best time to get stuck into his works.
18 July 2018, 18:00 PM
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