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Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
Najmus Sakib
1 May 2026 • Non-fiction review
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Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
Safiul Azam Mahfuz
10 April 2026 • Books & Literature
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Sports journalism and Bangladesh
Asrar Chowdhury
9 August 2023 • Books & Literature
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'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
Najmus Sakib
22 June 2023 • Books & Literature
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Professing criticism: On Naeem Mohaiemen's new book of essays
Minhaz Muhammad
8 June 2023 • Books & Literature
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Flesh in ruins
Nur-E-Jannat Alif
18 May 2023 • Books & Literature
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'
Sabrina Fatma Ahmad
26 January 2023 • Books & Literature
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’
Neeman Sobhan
8 December 2022 • Books & Literature
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
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1 December 2022 • Books & Literature
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