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
BRUSH STROKES OF HISTORY AND A PERSONAL BRUSH
This is an aberrant situation…well, read on. Alam, in his Itihasher Korcha, quotes the Natore-born eminent historian Sir Jadunath
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Three Poems
In the silence of the heart
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A View from the Ladies Common Room, Dacca University
DU. How those letters conjure up a sense of awe and bittersweet memory. Always in the vanguard of political, progressive
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM
I Can Prove Mathematically
I swear by my mother's milk: I swear in the name of metals and minerals, in the name of coffee and coco, in the name of land and labor, that an emergency-poem like this one needs ample prose and even crude mathematical proofs.
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Greatest Gift
It is a bright Sunday morning in spring. Most of the Boulderites are enjoying the outdoors. The curious sunbeams peek through the kitchen window to greet a slim girl with curly hair. Her name is Geeta Kulkarni. She is busily working on her dishes.
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Transatlantic Transitions: Back to Global Future?
The term 'transatlantic relations' has emerged as a dominant paradigm in the study of relations between Europe and the United States.
6 July 2018, 18:00 PM
STORY-ISH
He calculated the distance, the people between them, and kicked the football with perfect precision at her – that haughty one – gliding
6 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A Short, Winding and Legendary Dhaka Road
Fuller Road, the short and winding road in the middle of the University of Dhaka campus, is quite legendary, not only as far as the
6 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Enchanted Wood and other childhood stories of travel
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a little girl got her hands on a book, a book about siblings, of living in the countryside, and going on adventures—a book that would later give way to other books on more adventures and misadventures, turning the little child into an adult who constantly daydreams of taking off to some faraway land.
5 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Through the doors
There cannot be a book more for our times than Mohsin Hamid's Exit West which came out last year, at the peak of the European migration “crisis”. Hamid's earlier The Reluctant Fundamentalist too tackled contemporary issues of identity, Islamophobia, and disenchantment with US foreign policy, against the backdrop of 9/11.
5 July 2018, 18:00 PM
“Sugar Candy Bullets Can't Pierce Anything” other than maybe your heart
A looming sense of apprehension fills the pages of Kazuki Sakuraba's celebrated work – Sugar Candy Bullets Can't Pierce Anything.
4 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Islam: A Short History
History by definition denotes all the events that happened in the past but recorded, as Winston Churchill puts it, by
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Niceland Iceland
the fragment is all that survived…
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
FARAAZ
From Paradise gazing, we saw green on your face
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
INTO THE BLACK FOREST
Towering evergreen trees, thick clumps of fern and gorgeous waterfalls—yes, we are talking about Schwarzwald or
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
The World's End
The rusted bogies were scattered like confetti at the path's end. Mounds of bricks and sand, abandoned boxes, stray
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
The Idea of a Private University
Perhaps it is time one should write on the real idea behind a private university and prove that Newman and his ideas
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
A wrong choice and its aftermath
I picked up this book on a whim. Maybe it was the easy-to-hold feel of it. Or maybe it was the golden sticker adorning the names of the prizes it has amassed that floated on the water hyacinth covered pond. Whatever the reason, it sure didn't disappointed me.
27 June 2018, 18:00 PM
THE MAN WITH THREE NATIONALITIES
“This house,” said Mr Ranodhir Palchaudhuri, the owner of the colonnaded 19th century Neel Kuthi at Maheshgunj, “was built by a
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM
SEX OR SLEEP OR SILK
You are the night
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM
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