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
Can Bangladeshi manga make it to Japan? We asked ‘Source?’
“Within just two weeks of the launch, we sold almost 500 copies."
15 February 2023, 12:29 PM
A Love Affair with Books
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.
15 February 2023, 05:07 AM
Imdadul Haq Milan: A life in words and images
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?
14 February 2023, 18:00 PM
Boi Mela books for your Valentine
With Valentine’s day falling at the same time as Boi Mela, what could be a better gift than books?
14 February 2023, 05:02 AM
When fiction challenges communalism
A journey that shreds castes and creeds to heal the self-esteem of a woman.
13 February 2023, 13:49 PM
How is this year's Boi Mela coping with crisis?
How are publications, writers and readers coping with rising costs?
13 February 2023, 04:56 AM
How Darwin’s 'On the Origin of Species' impacted me
In memory of Charles Darwin, born on this day in 1809.
12 February 2023, 15:00 PM
Dalit poet Sukirtharani rejects award from Adani
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.
12 February 2023, 12:18 PM
Revisiting Syed Mujtaba Ali’s 'Shabnam'
A face may launch a thousand ships but the very woman with the face has a passive presence in literature.
12 February 2023, 09:00 AM
When Bon Bibi comes to life
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.
11 February 2023, 11:08 AM
Dhaka Art Summit for young visitors
Animation, games and performances your children shouldn't miss on the last day of DAS 2023 today
11 February 2023, 04:58 AM
These folk tales record a unique past between South Asia and Soviet Russia
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.
10 February 2023, 13:34 PM
8 new books to buy at Boi Mela this week
Historical fiction, romance, essays, and travelogues.
10 February 2023, 09:39 AM
The books you will meet at Dhaka Art Summit 2023
For those who are especially interested in literature in book form, the first two floors of the exhibition hold treasures.
9 February 2023, 13:31 PM
‘The book is a handicraft product’: BUET’s ‘Studio X’
"[This] is an important collection of work to be made available to the architecture, planning and engineering community as a key cornerstone of continuing to build Bangladesh", Transcom GCEO Simeen Rahman writes in her foreword.
9 February 2023, 11:08 AM
Evil and the divine in Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
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.
9 February 2023, 09:40 AM
Revisiting indigenous folktales at Dhaka Art Summit
“We wanted to share the story in our native language, just the way we heard it from our elders", said Kanak Chanpa Chakma.
8 February 2023, 14:07 PM
Salman Rushdie releases new novel six months after stabbing attack
"All I've seen is his idiotic interview in the New York Post," said Rushdie about his attacker. "Which only an idiot would do."
8 February 2023, 10:30 AM
Bengali ‘anti-novelist’ Subimal Misra no more
Bengali author Subimal Misra, 80, breathed his last at 4:50 AM on Wednesday.
8 February 2023, 08:49 AM
'I sit down to write, and nothing happens': Salman Rushdie
"I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk", Salman Rushdie tells New Yorker's David Remnick.
6 February 2023, 16:20 PM