TRIBUTE / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
REFLECTIONS / Boishakh in fragments: Food, storms, and memory
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Literature
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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
Books
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
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
When the Lights Went Out
I feel like unmasking myself, Because no one will see.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The Blue Sparrow
The blue sparrow is about to fly away; it flaps its wings. I stare deep into its eyes in a rush and whispered, “Take me with you, please.”It accepts my request. Under its wings the blue sparrow takes me in, my sin, my soul and all of my unfulfilled aspirations.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
A Walk around the Home of Emily Brontë
Around 2014, while working on my dissertation on Emily Brontë, I suddenly realized that it was rather strange that I had never been to Yorkshire.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Kaiser Haq Presents Shaheed Quaderi to the Anglophone Readers
Professor Kaiser Haq is not only Bangladesh's finest English language poets but one of the country's best translators as well. He translated Shamsur Rahman as early as 1985, when he was in his mid-thirties.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Remembering Nehreen Khan: Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam's Memorial Lecture at EWU
It was on a beautiful afternoon on 4 December, 2018 in S. M. Nowsher Ali Lecture Gallery at East West University Campus, Aftabnagar, Dhaka that Professor Syed
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
From The Daily Star Bookshelf
As 2018 wraps up, we decided to talk to some of our colleagues about the books that have accompanied them this past year. We started out trying to find recommendations hot off the press; but found out that it's been a year for older titles.
20 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Their Songs
I know a craven Mir Jafar
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
KHEYA'S WAR
The ant mound was intact until Kheya stepped on it. Pappu was trying to pick some ripe oranges from the big orange tree by the gate. While running toward him, Kheya stepped right on the mound and got attacked by a platoon of red ants.
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
From Ekattorer Chithi
Salaam. Hope you are well by the grace of Allah. Convey my respect and regards to others in the house. In this battle we are all here
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Telling (Hi)stories
My passport will tell you I am as old as the country itself. I am actually one year older than the country. That's what my mother told me, and that's how it was recorded in my early school documents.
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The 42nd Annual Book Sale of the Friends of the Library, Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Book Buy (Part II)
It was Leo Tolstoy whose Yasnaya Polyana residence and retreat located outside Moscow was classified by him as his 'inaccessible literary stronghold.
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Rokeya and Woolf: Souls that Have Lived
There are some amazing similarities between the Bengali writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and her English counterpart Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) that will make you wonder whether every great soul that has ever lived experiences the same dimension of reality in different shapes.
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Light Mist
She wished to become a light mist
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
TWO POEMS
Butterflies flit, turn and flutter
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The Colours of Tomorrow
2140. Earth has been given to Mechatronix for the protection of its remaining animals. Most of these are humans and are often the most chaotic.
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The Story of Sounds
Life is an art, the art that has the magnificent capacity to preserve itself. The challenge is to discover the beauty of that how of those
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
In the Ring
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind-
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Between History and Identity: Freud and the Non-European
Quite differently from the spirit of Freud's deliberately provocative reminders that Judaism's founder was a non-Jew, and that Judaism beginsin the realm of Egyption, non-Jewish monotheism, Israeli legislation countervenes, represses, and even cancels Freud's carefully maintained opening out of Jewish identity towards its non-Jewish background. (Said, 66)
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
The 42nd Annual Book Sale of the Friends of the Library, Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Book Buy (Part 1)
The University of Toronto (UFT) holds an annual book sale every October at its prestigious academic and architectural landmark building Trinity College established in 1851.
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Muri-Makha -Pherey-Asha
Conversations end with half nibbled canapés,
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM