BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Sports journalism and Bangladesh
9 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
22 June 2023, 08:16 AM
Books & Literature
Professing criticism: On Naeem Mohaiemen's new book of essays
8 June 2023, 06:59 AM
Books & Literature
Flesh in ruins
18 May 2023, 07:33 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'
26 January 2023, 10:20 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’
8 December 2022, 04:00 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
1 December 2022, 12:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero
17 November 2022, 05:46 AM
Books & Literature
Nothing matters, but Albert Camus’s 'The Stranger' does
7 November 2022, 11:42 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Life in modern Dhaka as portrayed in 'A Strange Coincidence and Other Stories'
3 November 2022, 12:00 PM
Books & Literature
Spotlight on an essence of Bangladesh's culture
It goes without saying that rising globalism in this age of information technology has had, is having, and will continue to have for the foreseeable future...
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Learning To Live and Laugh
When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.
28 October 2015, 18:00 PM
A tale of slavery on Caribbean islands
When I read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James a few years ago, it took away my peace of mind for some days with its terrific
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
A historical fiction on the liberation war of Bangladesh
The book Dus k Dawn And Liberation is compelling reading. This is the ultimate test of any book, fact, fiction or fusion of both.
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Memoirs of a nonconformist
There are people who seem to be genetically inclined to act like Mary's contrary lamb. Kamal Siddiqui, a former civil servant who had
25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Tales of Tagore in Latin America
Tagore's reception outside India is quite an interesting subject. He was an insatiate globetrotter who had travelled vastly on both sides
18 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Love story packed with passion and vengeance
Wuthering Heights is one of the best-known novels in the history of English literature. This novel tells a love story packed with passion
18 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Elegant, graceful, and heart-warming stories
The book, “Family Furnishings”, is the most recent collection of short stories written by Alice Munro and includes 24 stories written
18 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Reform for Economic Development
This book is a build-up on the theories and experiences of a patriot, teacher and business thinker. Constructed in
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
The book, “The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East”, is a popular history book by Oxford
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath: Ashukh Bishukh
Rabindranath: Ashukh Bishukh is an outside-the-box but well-written book on Rabindranath Tagore by Mihirkanti
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesher jalani tel bipononer ek sotabdi (A century of oil marketing in Bangladesh)
The content of the book is the theme of Ph.D research of Dr. Sharif Asrafuzzaman, who has been working in Meghna Petroleum for many years.
4 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Dekha Na-Dekhay Mesha
Following a spate of some ponderous reading not infrequently embellished by otherwise unnecessary, usually superfluous, quotes and dictums from postmodernist gurus and other monishis, probably with the notion of providing their efforts with a grand “intellectual” veneer...
4 October 2015, 18:00 PM
On Nature and Knowledge
When the profound thoughts of a scholar on myriad topics are collated with the mastery of a classic artist, the anthology becomes a repository of knowledge and a reader finds it worthwhile to embark on a journey down its winding path to quench his thirst.
4 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Philip Swanson is an analytical book containing essays by eminent literary scholars on the fictional works of Garcia Marquez. Penetrative essays by Donald Shaw, Robin Fiddian, Steven Boldy, Raymond Williams, Claire Taylor and Gerald Martin have made this book a highly educative text for students and pedagogues scrutinizing the stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
13 September 2015, 18:00 PM
HUMAN RIGHTS IN BANGLADESH: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Human Rights in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Futures, edited by Imtiaz Ahmed, comes out with the stated intention of presenting the past, present and future of a key human issue in Bangladesh.
13 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Missing Person
Patrick Modiano is not a popular household name, anywhere not even in the Anglophone academic and literary world.
13 September 2015, 18:00 PM
The Maidens' Club
If you grew up as a teenager in the 1960s (and in the 1950s, or in the early1970s), and had knowledge and experience of the life led by the upper crust society in then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), going through Niaz Zaman's The Maidens' Club might very well bring about a sense of déjà vu or nostalgia, or both, in you.
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
On Rereading Jajabor's Drishtipaat and Alice Munro's Family Furnishings
As you get older, you start to miss some of the books you have read in the past at different stages of your life. Sometimes what drives this yearning
is nostalgia, a memorable moment in the past, or often a reference to a character from a narrative. At least among my friends, how often we refer to Amit Roy, Srikanto, or Constance during conversations, blogs, or on Facebook!
30 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Too Much for One Book
Nobel laureate J.M. Czoetzee's “The Childhood of Jesus” came out in 2013 as a cryptic fable exploring innocence, destiny, diaspora, maternal love and the philosophy of the abyss that is human affection. And it's the kind that polarises the reading population.
26 August 2015, 18:00 PM