The fast moving changes in the world in the past few years have forced us into deep introspection and sparked anxiety about the

To be honest, “Exit West” was the first novel I could devour in a day. This book ended up on my TBR list because 1) the hard cover is beautiful, 2) it is one of the 13 listed books for The Man Booker Prize 2017, and 3) this book is an urgent portrait of the current migration issues.

The much anticipated longlist for the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 was announced today by eminent feminist writer and publisher Ritu Menon, who is the chair of the jury panel for the distinguished prize.

When I picked up Ocean of Sorrow, I didn't know what to expect. My father had bought the book from Bangla Academy in our recent trip to Dhaka.

Oh, Lord! Is this your way of freeing me from the possible entanglement of relationships? I pondered and wondered; my eyes filled with tears. The joy of such freedom is full of intense pain too.

“A single book could contain so much of everything, so much anguish and joy and love and war and death and life, so much of being

Poetry can be defined in a thousand ways, and yet its essence will continue to elude us. A poem might be someone's imagination

Twenty years ago—back in 1997—I was a first-year undergraduate studying English literature at the University of Dhaka when

“In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are.”

been buggering around this goddamn city

Humayun Ahmed's Tomader Ei Nagar-e projects Dhaka--our beloved city!--with all her beauties, flaws, eccentricities, and mysteries

Urban spaces have deeply contradictory existences in our imagination. We love cities and the goodies they offer; we also hate them

Sometime in 1797 something magical happened in English literature. Two poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge by

The sublime use of language can be best met in poetry which holds an intrinsic kinship with aesthetics. Poets play with words

A post-cold war international economic and political order is still unfolding and has been witnessing concerted attempts by traditional

You could not shock her more than she shocks me,

Imagine a world where you are the creator and the decider. And where you are the king in a kingdom of critters. It's a dream land, of

Wars, great and small, have been a part of recorded human history. Given the varied elements that go toward the making of

The title of Habib's work is suggest why did our valiant freedom fighters liberate this country? Why did the martyrs go through hell for

Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami, ISBN 9780451494, Bond Street Books, 2017