Kafka’s world is chaotic. His stories, no matter how bizarre their plots, are always ones that we can connect to. 

 Nobody’s Children is a collection of “ten real stories” of homeless children living without any of the support or privilege we take for granted.

Sweet Bean Paste (2013) by Durian Sukegawa is a tale of friendship and redemption in an unforgiving society.

Sally Rooney is well known for transforming her novels into visually pleasing and satisfactory adaptations.

The exhibition ends today (June 25) at 9 pm BST.

Mastura's penning is sincere. She crafts the details like a watchsmith, a representation of which could be found in the very first piece of the book, named "Feni".

Zanzibar-born (now Tanzania) writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. One of his 10 published novels, Desertion (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005) is about—like many of his other works—colonialism, racism, cultural and religious biases, migration, and of course, desertion.

Bangladesh War resembles a journalist's diary. Ghosh's tone is neither that of a critic nor a judge.

Honeyman gives Eleanor a personality beyond her mental illness.

Boitoi, the largest e-book platform of Bangladesh, is organizing a 15-day ebook fair from June 16 to June 30. 

“We witnessed great footfall in the afternoon and are glad that people came to the celebrations even amidst this gloomy weather,” shared Zafar Ahmed Rashed, CEO and Chief Editor, about the first day of the event.

With the Russia-Ukraine war continuing and the (consequent) wave of inflation that has struck the world, serious concerns for

Tokhon Golper Tore (Pendulum Publishers, 2022) is Rifat Anjum Pia’s debut collection even though she has been writing for quite a few years now.

If you’re a fantasy nut like me, you’ll be acutely aware of just how “westernised”—almost to the point of being whitewashed—the entire genre is.

The English and Humanities Department at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) is organising its second session of ULAB Literary Salon on June 18, 2022, from 5 to 7 pm, at the ULAB Research Building auditorium in their Dhanmondi campus. In discussion this session is the critically acclaimed novel, Cyber Mage, which will also be launched at the event. ‘Cyber Mage’ is a new novel by Saad Z. Hossain, who is amongst some of the most remarkable English fiction writers of modern Bangladesh. He has been published by top imprints in South Asia and the world. His novel, Cyber Mage, is proudly published in Bangladesh by ULAB Press.

Each of them represented a unique crisis that women in our country are most frequently faced with, and when I had their stories assembled, I knew this was what I was looking for. 

The protruding question we’re left with is this: is the allocated sum for purchasing even merely enough to support our publishers in this grave time?

The Making of Mujib (Bangla Academy Dhaka, 2022) by Dr Rashid Askari is an intellectual biography of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman aimed mainly at historiographers and socio-political scientists.

Critical reading of South Asian history has been majorly subjected to individual narratives. Lack of comparative studies have resulted in ignorance for neighbours and a forgotten history of self.

An 80-year-old North Indian plunges into despair as her husband passes away.