The December session arrives on Friday, December 2, at the Gulshan Paara Utshab at 3:00-3:45 PM.

Andy Warhol suggested they tape their conversations on his Sony Walkman, to which Truman Capote agrees.

The characters crackle with life, quirky and contradictory, despicable and sympathetic in turns.

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.

Thoughts of a devoted poet

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.

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).  

She came out from the cocoon of the accepted designated roles of women and marched forward to live an extraordinary life. 

Ali Imam, the author of more than 600 books, breathed his last on Monday evening in the Bangladesh Medical College Hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.

What moon might mean to you

She has been coming to this hotel for the last 28 years, ever since her mother died, and has chosen to stay in the exact same room as she does every year. She uses the same road from the hotel to travel to her mother’s resting place and buys flowers from the same African woman.

Today is your 50th birthday. Happy Birthday to you.

I am not ready to be a failure yet.

Then it is time to return!

Shurjo’s Clan uses magic realism to conjure Shurjomukhi’s freedom fighter uncles, who were martyred in Sylhet’s tea gardens during the 1971 Liberation War, and her grandmother, who took her own life shortly after the 1947 Partition. 

FOSWAL (Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature) was initiated in 1987 and it has since been fostering the writers and literature of SAARC countries.

Not so easy to assure someone 

“Are you sure he can make it? The Rupsha in March is not safe, nor are the Sundarbans.”

Tanwi Nandini islam of Bangladeshi heritage wins Kirkus Prize in nonfiction

Remembering Camus on his 109th birthday.