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Very few books ever fail to draw us into an ever deeper contemplation of literature, no matter how many times we turn to them. Rabindranath's Novel: Patterns of Thought and Representation ([1977] 2014) by Syed Akram Hossain belongs to that slim, selective canon.

Svetlana Alexievich, this year's Nobel laureate for literature, says her approach is to let "human voices speak for themselves".

Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature.

Will the prize awarding body choose to honor the occasion by picking a female winner? Will it break new ground by giving the prize to a journalist? Or will it rush to bestow the coveted prize on one of the many aging favorites?

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...

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.

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.

Acclaimed Irish playwright Brian Friel has dies aged 86 after a long illness.

They were sitting on the waiting area outside the doctor's chamber. She was heavily pregnant; probably on the verge. The woman with the baby bump was twenty nine, carrying her first child; rather late, some would say, for a first baby. She was accompanied by her mother-in-law.

The day begins long before you decide to welcome it, grace it with your selfish toast, and face it from your dire straits.

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.

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.

Patrick Modiano is not a popular household name, anywhere not even in the Anglophone academic and literary world.

Every now and then when free He would stand next to me.

It's happening again. A familiar rage unfolds its sticky wings within the captive interior of my chest: a monstrous butterfly emerging gracelessly from its cocoon.

The sky so full of stars

I remember reading books that had long descriptions. Some writers do love to describe. JRR Tolkien, for instance, is one of those fantasy gurus who created a world that is beyond our . . . no, not imagination—the conceptions of the elves, ogres, goblins, etc. had already existed inside our small vocabulary boxes before Tolkien's words pierced through our thought bubbles and gave birth to an Orc and a world beyond our, yes, expectation.

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.

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!