BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Let the queen rest in peace
23 October 2025, 14:55 PM
Book Review: Nonfiction / Charting the south’s path
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
FICTION BOOK REVIEW: Fragments of memory and regret
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
ESSAY / Leonard Cohen: Verses of mercy and turmoil
22 October 2025, 13:45 PM
THE SHELF / 3 Partition stories for young readers
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A bit of Fry & Homer
18 October 2025, 11:15 AM
Fiction / Free at last
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
REFLECTIONS / Autumnal offerings for seasonal readers
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
THE SHELF / 5 books to rescue you from brainrot
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
Gabriel García Márquez’s unseen novel will be published next year
The novel, which will span around 150 pages, tells the story of a woman named Ana Magdalena Bach, who visits a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, and ends up having an affair.
7 May 2023, 13:00 PM
“Books need to be highlight to elevate a country to the global level”: Abdullah Abu Sayeed
This is how the gradual exchange of literature and culture takes place.
6 May 2023, 11:38 AM
4 books that explore press freedom
Here are four books that explore the stories of journalists, and the issues surrounding press freedom.
5 May 2023, 04:00 AM
In conversation with South Asia’s preeminent literary agent, Kanishka Gupta
I always tell the authors to make subjective, qualitative decisions. So many of my authors say no to higher offers from publishing houses if they don’t feel comfortable with the publisher or editor.
4 May 2023, 09:13 AM
Language can be the ultimate colonial weapon
Despite these heavy themes, Babel remains inherently readable. It is quick to attract the reader’s attention and then hold it captive, making it a very difficult book to put down.
4 May 2023, 08:42 AM
How you too can nearly, almost, probably become a Jedi Knight
At its core, 'Star Wars' is a classic tale of underdogs taking on a powerful enemy; it's a story of hope and perseverance, of standing up for what's right even when the odds are against you.
3 May 2023, 13:00 PM
Books exploring workers’ rights in South Asia
In order to understand the background of the labour movements in South Asia or the plight of workers, here are some books to add to your reading list.
2 May 2023, 14:46 PM
My first foray into fiction with Feluda
Growing up, I never analysed what drew me to the Feluda novels. It is only now that I marvel at how Feluda remained the fiction novel read at leisure by a self-proclaimed Bookworm such as myself for so long in my childhood.
2 May 2023, 12:57 PM
5 books to read for International Workers’ Day
Concentrating on women workers from Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan, Women and Work in South Asia also tackles the advancement of individual corporate sectors due to the involvement of women workers.
1 May 2023, 04:30 AM
‘The Hunger Games’ and the danger of desensitisation to violence
In making the Hunger Games unglamorous, Suzanne Collins challenges the audience to reflect on how they view violence in entertainment
30 April 2023, 12:55 PM
Ranajit Guha was the youngest at heart: Dipesh Chakraborty
"The enthusiasm which Ranajit Guha created in our minds in the field of thinking and writing history for more than a decade has never been replicated in the past nor will it be replicated in the future", Dipesh Chakraborty said.
29 April 2023, 15:00 PM
Zeenat bookstore closure delayed
New Market’s Zeenat Book Supply Ltd announced today that they will remain open until May 15, 2023
29 April 2023, 08:46 AM
Amitav Ghosh's new book will revisit the 19th century opium trade
The book traces the transformative impact that the opium trade had on India, China, Britain and the United States, with profound long-term consequences for the birth of the modern world, and of contemporary globalism.
28 April 2023, 10:56 AM
Nadeem Zaman’s ‘The Inheritors’ to be produced for the screen by Sharbari Zohra Ahmed
Quantico writer Sharbari Zohra Ahmed will produce Nadeem Zaman's Gatsby-inspired novel set in Dhaka.
27 April 2023, 13:37 PM
Literature showcases a different side to the Korean Wave
The books coming out of Korea are brutal in how they push the audience right back into the bleakness of reality
27 April 2023, 10:38 AM
Akhteruzzaman Elias: There is always an other to be purged
Shill edited the present volume as a rich collection of memories and evaluations of Akhteruzzaman Elias by his friends and relatives, some renowned literary figures of the Bangla language, as well as some occasional thoughts by Elias himself.
27 April 2023, 10:22 AM
Boats against the current: Reconciling the Dhaka of old with the new
Nadeem Zaman’s The Inheritors retells and recontextualizes one of the most famous stories there ever was—F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925).
27 April 2023, 10:01 AM
The dark undercurrents of family life
The book combines the intrigue of a classic domestic suspense novel with a high level of psychological insight and skilful character development.
26 April 2023, 12:27 PM
SAJIDA Foundation, CholPori team up to improve child education
The startup is currently implementing pilot models with schools across the country to digitize classroom learning.
26 April 2023, 09:05 AM
Reimagining the magic for HBO Max's Harry Potter remake
Why don’t we imagine a cast that could illuminate the characters and make us happy?
25 April 2023, 12:55 PM