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Five books I would sell my soul to re-read for the first time
Honeyman gives Eleanor a personality beyond her mental illness.
20 June 2022, 12:09 PM
Boitoi and Walton hosting e-book fair
Boitoi, the largest e-book platform of Bangladesh, is organizing a 15-day ebook fair from June 16 to June 30.
20 June 2022, 06:19 AM
Baatighar completes 17 years of readership
“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.
18 June 2022, 09:51 AM
Understanding the modern woman in 'Tokhon Golper Tore'
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.
15 June 2022, 18:00 PM
ULAB Literary Salon in discussion with Saad Z. Hossain, author of ‘Cyber Mage’
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.
14 June 2022, 11:19 AM
“Sundarer Taane Mongol Shotru”: Not just a passion project
Over the turn of pages, readers will realise how the Sundarbans have become a muse for the author from being just a mere passion project of documenting the lives of the region’s people.
8 June 2022, 13:09 PM
5 books to read after you’re done binging 'Stranger Things'
These books, full of horror, humour, grisly monsters, and misfit kids, are the perfect remedy to fill the gap in your time until the show returns with more episodes.
6 June 2022, 09:14 AM
Salman Rushdie named Companion of Honour for Queen Elizabeth’s Birthday Honours List
Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie has been named Companion of Honour, an exclusive club of 65 members honoured for their services to the arts, science, medicine, and government. Rushdie is leading the list for his longstanding services to literature.
2 June 2022, 08:02 AM
'Untranquil Recollections': Reviewing the memoir of Rehman Sobhan, an incurable optimist
The second volume of Rehman Sobhan’s memoirs, Untranquil Recollections: Political Economy of Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh (University Press Limited, 2022) deals primarily with the years of 1972 to 1975,
1 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Why the backlash over the Percy Jackson reboot casting is unnecessary
As a long-time fan of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series by Rick Riordan, there could be no better news than Disney+ announcing that they will be rebooting the fan-favourite series with a new, talented cast. As expected, everyone was hyped about the reboot and fans started coming out of the woodwork with their years of Greek mythology knowledge. But then, all hell broke loose in the fandom when Riordan announced that 12-year-old Leah Sava Jeffries would be joining the cast as the character of Annabeth Chase, the daughter of Goddess Athena.
30 May 2022, 13:35 PM
What’s extraordinary about the ordinary?
In Pathak’s book we see instances of how the distinctive ordinary tendencies of everyday life are dipping and are capitalised under different industrial markets.
29 May 2022, 13:33 PM
Geetanjali Shree's Partition novel 'Tomb of Sand' wins International Booker Prize 2022
Indian writer Geetanjali Shree became the first author from the country to win the International Booker Prize for her Hindi novel set in the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent.
27 May 2022, 10:35 AM
Marketing pills or monetizing pain? One family’s greed destroys thousands
Empire of Pain is a wondrous achievement of investigative journalism.
25 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Ira Mukhoty's ‘Song of Draupadi’: An inside story of the Mahābhārata heroines
Their voices were muffled; everything the women said became ventriloquism. Mukhoty lets us hear those voices.
25 May 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Luminaries of the Word’: Student designs video game on Bangladeshi women writers
"I selected excerpts from eight famous works, books like Begum Rokeya’s 'Motichur' and 'Ekattorer Diary' by Sufia Kamal, and expanded on their implied or intended meaning as best as I could."
25 May 2022, 14:56 PM
What we readers want from Zoya Akhtar’s ‘The Archies’
From the trailer it looks like Zoya Akhtar's Archies has a wider cast of main characters than Riverdale, but what we want to see is the original comics' innocence revisited.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Enter 'Alphabetica': Vowels form a unique minority in Roy Phoenix’s satire
At its core, Alphabetica is a satire on majoritarianism.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Sabiha Huq's 'The Aviary': History depicted by three Mughal princesses and a Kashmiri queen
Sabiha Huq excavates and discusses overlooked texts written by Muslim women and questions the position of women within Islamic cultures in South Asia at large.
18 May 2022, 18:00 PM
For fans of ‘Heartstopper’, an Alice Oseman reading guide
I wanted to share my personal reading order of Alice’s work and a glance into what you can expect from each.
18 May 2022, 12:31 PM
UPL launches book, ‘Millennial Generation in Bangladesh’
The book in question, according to the blurb on UPL’s website, asks noteworthy questions like, “How do [Millennials] identify themselves in the social and national contexts and how can the nation's framework work for their life strategy?”
15 May 2022, 08:57 AM