News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
News
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.
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Essay / On ‘Bridgerton’: When romantic escapism clashes with the realities of class
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
The Shelf / 5 books that capture the soul of lunar exploration
7 April 2026, 19:50 PM
The Shelf
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Melbourne: Where weather performs live
4 April 2026, 04:10 AM
Books & Literature
THE SHELF / 4 fictional case studies in incel pathology
4 April 2026, 04:05 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A wintry account of the human experience
2 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Stories from under the waves
2 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Homage to Rani-ma on her centenary year
Non-fiction review
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The wilderness in me
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Reflection
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
EDITORIAL / Why read?
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
News
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
Books & Literature
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
News
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Poetry
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
News
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
Books & Literature
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 / Singing a 900-year-old song: Exploring Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
3 January 2026, 10:26 AM
Books & Literature
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.
NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations
9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
Books & Literature
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Fiction
The scramble was almost instantaneous and without mercy. Men in freshly tailored panjabis—stitched for the next morning's prayers—threw elbows for the simple right to go back home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
FICTION / Little Grey - Part 2
21 February 2026, 01:27 AM
THE SHELF / If characters from different books went on a date
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
POETRY / Potatoes are burning in the fryer
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
THE SHELF / 5 books to read as a performative male
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Being and Not Being
The chilliness of the room was unpleasant since I had woken up.
5 December 2022, 13:33 PM
Last night reminded me of cricket's power to wield stories
As I mentally prepared to leave the stadium last night, I saw Miraz continue to play with a deftness and an attitude that I wish could be formalised and replicated by all eleven team members.
5 December 2022, 04:07 AM
Bookworm Bangladesh to reopen in Shahabuddin Park, Gulshan 2
The new branch is expected to open in mid-January, store owner Amina Rahman told The Daily Star.
4 December 2022, 15:07 PM
Slam Poetry Nights 4 goes to Gulshan Paara Uthshab
SHOUT and Daily Star Books jointly organise the Slam Poetry Nights once every month to offer a platform for conversations on art, personal freedom, and the issues urgent to the country’s people, all through the lens of poetry.
4 December 2022, 12:00 PM
Unpacking the craft of creative writing
If you are reaching out to an agent, go and find out exactly what sort of work that agent publishes. Also, think in terms of what would differentiate your work with the work of 39 other authors.
3 December 2022, 12:05 PM
Guba Books organises Stories in the Park!
The event saw the launching of children's books in both English and Bangla, namely Ami Bokul, Sun Moon Secret and Where are the Chonchols?
3 December 2022, 08:25 AM
Finding myself in Orhan Pamuk books
It is also etched in the corners of multiple pages of the notebook I am writing this draft in. It is on my passport, also on my pajamas. It is the word the world knows me by—my name. Specifically, my last name, Nuri.
2 December 2022, 08:55 AM
SHOUTxDS Books presents 'Slam Poetry Nights' — Episode 3
The December session arrives on Friday, December 2, at the Gulshan Paara Utshab at 3:00-3:45 PM.
1 December 2022, 14:00 PM
When stories are born on the field
Stories, whether in reality or on the field, play an important factor in shaping how we as humans see both sports and life.
1 December 2022, 12:55 PM
Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
Andy Warhol suggested they tape their conversations on his Sony Walkman, to which Truman Capote agrees.
1 December 2022, 12:00 PM
Jane Borges’ 'Bombay Balchão' is a crafty explosion of flavour
The characters crackle with life, quirky and contradictory, despicable and sympathetic in turns.
1 December 2022, 04:00 AM
Nadeem Zaman’s new novel takes ‘The Great Gatsby’ to Dhaka
To be published by Hachette India in early 2023 and meant to be circulated exclusively in South Asia, the novel is “a story of passion, decadence, infidelity, privilege, identity, and the many confounding faces of love and loss in contemporary Dhaka.
30 November 2022, 12:00 PM
6 books we recommend this week
When you go to a book-store, it is often difficult to choose from the plethora of newly released books available. The following list should help when deciding what new books to buy.
27 November 2022, 12:06 PM
Words of Love
Thoughts of a devoted poet
27 November 2022, 04:18 AM
5 books on Argentina’s football history
For fans of the Argentinia team, these five books can be a portal to favourite moments in football history.
26 November 2022, 14:49 PM
What ails Bangladesh's publishing industry?
The price we pay for the local paper takes advantage of that extra duty, and practically we are stuck with buying low quality local paper with questionable output often.
26 November 2022, 11:38 AM
Bob Dylan publisher sorry for $600 book’s replica autographs
The allegedly “hand-signed” copies were not individually inscribed.
26 November 2022, 09:00 AM
Rendezvous with the Devil
Carving mysterious runes with bones
A pentagram etched in my soul
Pulling on the blistered sinews
Of Desperately unrestrained sins
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM
The Journey
She remembers the window,
A bright envelope opened and gleamed
In the dark railway carriage.
Its rectangular frame cut back every irrelevant,
Decapitated all remainders.
Outside an intemperate sky painted everything blue
And looked her on the nose.
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM
Muslim women in the crucible of feminist theory
Writer and academic Elora Shehabuddin has lived in a number of countries and had a fair share of exposure to multicultural environments. Her lived experience must have proved helpful in bringing in a comprehensive perspective to the discussion in Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (University of California Press 2021; University Press Limited 2022).
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM
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