There's something more to it that trammeled his existence, and he wanted to escape the suffocation.

Essays, historical fiction, science fiction, and travelogues.

How Mingherians responded to the infectious plague in 1901 isn’t altogether different from our response to the Covid-19. They too hid their patients in fear of stigma and isolation.

Rubaiya Murshed’s Nobody's Children is a genre of its kind—it employs both stark facts and literary elements at the same time. The book is focused on the issue of children who are living on the streets without proper care or support from their families. 

“Within just two weeks of the launch, we sold almost 500 copies."

This Valentine's Day, we're swooning over books - the joy and the power they bring to a whole spectrum of readers, from teachers to editors, writers and book bloggers. 

The memoir is no less than a novel—replete with sorrows, disappointments, love and joy. How many people the author has received neglect from in his life?

With Valentine’s day falling at the same time as Boi Mela, what could be a better gift than books?

A journey that shreds castes and creeds to heal the self-esteem of a woman.

How are publications, writers and readers coping with rising costs?

In memory of Charles Darwin, born on this day in 1809.

Sukirtharani, a poet from Tamil Nadu whose works of literature explore the lives of Dalit women in India, has refused to accept the Devi Award in a recent award ceremony.

The scenography for the project was made by Paris-based multinational architecture, art, and design group Golem. It has been created with the support of Harper Collins India. The installation invites visitors to enter a forest of enormous pages where scenes from the book stand as tall as trees.

The Slavic fairy tales and Soviet stories formed a significant part of the childhood memories of people who grew up in the subcontinent from the 1960s to the mid 1980s.

Historical fiction, romance, essays, and travelogues.

Despite my own lack of belief in divine providence, Dostoevsky's damning portrayal of the vacuum created in a world where ideas such as religion, spirituality and faith take a backseat made me challenge my own ideas about the source of our moral conduct and made me weigh the benefits of lingering onto faith.

"All I've seen is his idiotic interview in the New York Post," said Rushdie about his attacker. "Which only an idiot would do."

"I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk", Salman Rushdie tells New Yorker's David Remnick.

We find out that civilisation underwent the threat of extinction, where only a few survived. About 100 years later, Anika, a 19-year-old girl, comes across an orb-like glowing “machine” that is meant to “change the fate of the current humanity forevermore.”

There are few public libraries across the city which can be considered to have a decent book collection in both Bangla and English.