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
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ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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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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ESSAY / Between tradition and taboo: The arranged marriage trope in Bangla dark romance literature
26 February 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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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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Can there be a virtual poetry revival?
The amount of poetry on the net is simply staggering. All the great and popular poems we have – or ought to have – read are a mouse click away.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Reporting on Dissent
Amidst the endless contest for power, every nation-state is beset with insurgencies. A casualty in these conflicts is often the freedom of thought and expression.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
OUTLANDISH
I miss my unborn child
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
TAZRIN FASHIONS, LTD.
She believed she was about thirty
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
This week we welcome back the ever-prolific poet and academic Kaiser Haq tracing lines of connection between the wireless and the lyrical.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Cat and Mouse By Gunter Grass
I bought a copy of Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass (1927—2015) around four years ago from Aziz Super Market, Dhaka and while going through the moving novel Gunter Grass seemed to me very close to Victor Hugo in terms of characterization.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh-er-Swadhinota Sangrame Shilpishomaj By Biren Shome
IT'S not often you come across artists writing on artists.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Fall of the House of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe
CRAVING for some spinal tingling horror story? How about some classic Edgar Allen Poe Gothic Fiction that will leave you scared and confused?
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Q&A with Farah Ghuznavi: The Writer's Wilderness Survival Kit
Should a writer write to please the reader or himself/herself?
25 April 2015, 04:57 AM
THE KERALA JOURNAL
The alarm rings at the crack of dawn, but my body and mind fight.
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A TRIBUTE
Sadaat Hasan Manto, one of the most prolific short-story writers to emerge from the subcontinent, described the murder of a 'Muslim bastard' during the riots in his most famous short story 'Toba Tek Singh'.
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. (Khalil Gibran)
24 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Political Parties in Bangladesh
I congratulate Prof. Dr. Raunaq Jahan for her book Political Parties in Bangladesh- Challenges of Democratization. I would also like to
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Gender and Development By Janet Momsen
GENDER and Development by Janet Momsen (2009) is an empirical study considering position of women in developing countries.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Northanger Abbey
NORTHANGER Abbey is a novel, written by Jane Austen. The story is set in early 19th Century England.
19 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Gunter Grass in Dhaka
One day in November 1986, Dr Shamim Khan – friend, colleague, and at that time an assistant professor of International Relations at
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
What Must Be Said
Why have I kept silent, held back so long,
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Today's SLR is dedicated to the German novelist, social critic, artist and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass who died on 13th April. He was 87.
17 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The Fine Line between Plagiarism and Influence
Kaavya Viswanathan's novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life” is a prime example of plagiarism.
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
"In The Light of What We Know" By Zia Haider
ZIA Haider's 'In The Light of What We Know' is a recent addition to the long list of post colonial literature by a host of post colonial authors.
12 April 2015, 18:00 PM