An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Apni Ki Alien Dekhte Chan?’: A debut with immense possibility
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
THE SHELF / Literature thrives beyond the centre too
5 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / From protests to power: The journey to Bangladesh’s July Uprising
5 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Celebrating diversity and language at “Bhasha Utshob 2025”
26 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Between tradition and taboo: The arranged marriage trope in Bangla dark romance literature
26 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOI MELA 2025 / 5 books to look out for at this year’s Boi Mela
19 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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A long influence
'Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'(1915) is a landmark modern poem written by T.S. Eliot in the sense is that it broke all
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
(Continued from the last issue)
Prodyumna gaped at the elderly man in surprise. What secret might he want to share with someone he had known only for a day?
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
My love for you
My mind floats gently on the romance
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Her Last Sigh
He had walked miles with a trembling heart
16 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Three POEMS
Is there a silver moonstone for me
16 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
Prodyumna saw the man for the first time at the temple of Dasaparmita, the ten perfections, when people came to watch the snake
16 December 2016, 18:00 PM
A Gritty Magical Setting that Packs a Punch
Although I have a very strong liking for sci-fi, many people jump to the conclusion that I love fantasy as well. I like my outrageous fiction grounded by some form of pseudoscience no matter what it is.
14 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of a subcontinent unchanged
Bollywood has implemented the idea in my mind that the world of Sharatchandra Chattapadhay is one big glittering film set. Dancers swish and swirl on marbled floors, surrounded by music, hookah and intoxicants.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Contours of passion in poetic expression
It was undoubtedly a challenging task and, I must say, it has been accomplished properly, by virtue of the tremendous confidence, acumenand ability of the vested quarter.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
CAMBODIA IN A SOLDIER'S VIEW
It was no one-off that the sword and the pen ran parallel. As a subaltern Sir Winston Churchill hardly twenty three made his maiden venture into the world of literature,” The Story of Malakand Field Force” published in 1897.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
From afar, Dylan muses on honor and surprise of Nobel prize
Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sends a message thanking the Swedish academy for awarding him the Nobel prize for literature, an honor the American singer and songwriter believes is about as likely as "standing on the moon."
11 December 2016, 06:12 AM
To Jenny
Daddy died, Black beard grew: mommy left me.
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
ANXIETY
Every morning I wake up with a fear, After so many sweet dreams
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
The new plot against America
In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth imagines two years of alternative history for the United States.
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
Renowned poets from all over the country
2 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Galloping through a park
Beneath the dissolved, age eaten luminous stone,
2 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Sweet Springtime Snapshot
Springtime in Melbourne, her fifth time in this abode of blood-ties and new generation, but her first in this season of renewal.
2 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Resisting a slayer's destiny
Jasper Francois Dent, does the name sound like that of a sociopath? Because that's what Jasper, the protagonist in the book, keeps wondering about the whole time.
30 November 2016, 18:00 PM
The Mystifying Muslin
As the title suggests, Saiful Islam's book 'Muslin: Our Story' is a detailed study of a traditional craft. However, it is considerably more than that, as he uses the subject to elicit a much broader cultural history of Bengal.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
An Illuminating Book on Nazrul
The national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam was a versatile genius who had left his indelible marks in all branches of Bangla literature and culture.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM