EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM Books & Literature
On the chilly afternoon of January 10, Bookworm Bangladesh, in collaboration with Voices Shaping Society, hosted the book launch of The July Resolve, a collection of 36 narratives that depicts the strength and struggles of people from all walks of life during the Monsoon Revolution of 2024.
EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM Books & Literature
North South University’s Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) concluded its first-ever Winter Fest spanning December 10-11, bringing together literature, performance, film, and visual art in a two-day celebration of creative expression on campus.

New home

'New home' is the top winner of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween writing contest Spook-off in the 100 word fiction category.
31 October 2023, 16:00 PM

4 witchy romance novels to read this Halloween

The fascination with October’s magic and mystery hasn’t subdued over the centuries. And what can be more magical than falling in love in October?
31 October 2023, 13:55 PM

The car

'The car' is one of the winning entries of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween themed writing contest "Spook-Off". One winning 100-word flash fiction or a two-line horror story will be published each day of the week all the way till Halloween.
30 October 2023, 16:00 PM

Little bits of love that remain

Your tea in the kettle, piping hot water/ No sugar, so that you can really taste the tea on your tongue
30 October 2023, 13:55 PM

Last visit

'Last visit' is one of the winning entries of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween themed writing contest "Spook-Off". One winning 100-word flash fiction or a two-line horror story will be published each day of the week all the way till Halloween.
29 October 2023, 16:00 PM

Midnight visitor

'Midnight visitor' is one of the winning entries of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween themed writing contest "Spook-Off". One winning 100-word flash fiction or a two-line horror story will be published each day of the week all the way till Halloween.
28 October 2023, 15:53 PM

Where to Start with Nobel Laureate, Jon Fosse

On 5th October, 2023 the acclaimed Norwegian playwright and poet, Jon Olav Fosse, won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
28 October 2023, 13:40 PM

A night at Hotel Kaalipara

An uncomfortable stillness emanated in the air around Rajpath road. I stood there with my suitcase in my hand, the hair on the back of my neck standing on edge. Glancing left then right, I crossed the road and entered the premises of Hotel Kaalipara.
27 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Saints of gold

It was another early sunset on a rainy day in Dhaka. Alamin was walking with a polythene bag of groceries back to his small, rented apartment.
27 October 2023, 18:00 PM

3 hours past midnight

As she looked up, Rukhsana noticed her eyeballs missing.
27 October 2023, 16:00 PM

Bring humanity home alive

This universe’s heart is hollow now for humanity has died inside it.
27 October 2023, 04:54 AM

Lift

I think it was closer tonight. I really did not want it inside the lift.
27 October 2023, 04:26 AM

This time, just the bare bones

Horror master Edgar Allan Poe believed a really good scary story should be read in one sitting.
25 October 2023, 18:00 PM

The unclassifiable “monsters” of Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’

Guillermo Del Toro’s stop-motion animation, Pinocchio (2022) is loosely based on Carlo Collodi’s novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883).
25 October 2023, 18:00 PM

The hour of the wolf

For a wistful moment, he was born to me. Eyes closed and never to open.
25 October 2023, 15:55 PM

Miles away

Back at home, food used to narrate stories. Here, food does not travel far to the nooks and crannies of Velutha’s heart; it only reaches his stomach well enough to leave him looking healthy and strong.
21 October 2023, 13:33 PM

Small-town Blues

Spacious, shiny, new roads are built in my city to rent them for raw-markets
20 October 2023, 18:00 PM

The Divine Feminine

I look in the mirror, and the tides start turning,
20 October 2023, 18:00 PM

My London: An Immigrant Story

You Are a Rickshawallah
20 October 2023, 18:00 PM

In search of American freedoms

Increasingly over the years, American literary fiction has centered upon rage—a rage brought on by family, one’s own identity or, through the very cruelty of economic catastrophe.
18 October 2023, 18:00 PM
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