Book Reviews

A Bibliophile’s Review of Bargain Buys: The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot

The Queen of detective fiction (1890-1976) was in 1971 bestowed the...
The Burden of Miracle in Poonachi: or the Story of a Black Goat

Perumal Murugan, the Tamil writer who rose to fame with self...
An Anchorite’s Call to Reread Tagore

Tagore is almost a century-old fixation with the Bengali-speaking...

Human, All too Human!

For anyone harboring misgivings about Rabindranath Tagore but doing...
Azfar Hussain’s Dorshonakkhyan: Materialist Philosophy

In Hegelian philosophy, the dialectical relation between appearance...
BANGABANDHU AND BANGLADESH: Correcting Contrives and Cunning Corridors

Lamartine — that mediocre poet but cunning politician in France...

Ek Kishorir Juddhajatra : A Painful Tale Told Spontaneously

It’s the tale of a teenage girl’s reminiscence of her journey from...
History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives- Vol. I and II

History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives (up to...
Sustainable English language teacher development at scale: Lessons from Bangladesh

Externally-funded English language projects of different stripes...

Dreams & Shadows: Perspectives on Multifarious Issues

“When white people commit acts of terrorism, we term them mentally...
CHINA RULING THE WAVES?

Lieutenant General Mohammad Aminul Karim is no stranger to the sea....
The Boat People: Safety and its Downsides

In the face of dehumanizing discrimination, insurgency is important...

Patna Blues: Travails of a Minority Community

An enjoyable read, Abdullah Khan's debut novel, Patna Blues is...
CHINA RULING THE WAVES?

Lieutenant General Mohammad Aminul Karim is no stranger to the sea....
Ottegsahon: Caress Of The Muse

The adage goes that almost every Bengali is born with poetry in his...

Kaiser Haq Presents Shaheed Quaderi to the Anglophone Readers

Professor Kaiser Haq is not only Bangladesh's finest English...
Not a Review, but Words of Heart: On Nausheen Eusuf's Not Elegy, But Eros

Life is an elegy, written by time. The instinct of life itself is...
Titans at the Early CanLit Boom

When we are at the verge of the third decade of the twenty-first...

THE OVER TAKERS: STORIES TO MULL OVER

I was scratching my head as I completed reading the first story in...
White Tears: A New Look on Life

White Tears is the fifth novel of Hari Kunzru who is a promising...
Kom Chena Boro Manush: Abdul Quadir

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the...

Lore of the Woman: The Bird Catcher and Other Stories

A reader can perhaps assume from the back flap of Fayeza Hasanat&...
A "Philosophical Worldview" in Nature and Life

Doing 'deep ecology' by any academically trained...
The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages

Mesmerised within “zones of blindness and insight,” the British...

A Reader's Guide to Writers' Britain

Awakening your wanderlust, in hand is the ultimate travel guidebook to Britain's rich literary heritage. Here, innumerable destinations feature multiple authors, landscapes and legendary characters that transport both the studious and the curious into unforgettable literary trails.
Arundhati Roy and Our Reality

Some days ago, a friend of mine who stays abroad, sent me a gift. Since he is very special to me, I was extra-eager to open the box and find out what it was.
The Bones of Grace: Rewriting History

Tahmima Anam attracted an international readership when her debut novel A Golden Age (2007) won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book in 2008.
Poetry

“How do I make you understand,
The Good Muslim: A Post-Liberation War Bangladesh

“A novel asserts nothing; it provides a framework for thinking about things.” said Martin Amis, a British writer, in an interview with Rachel Cooke published in The Observer of 1 October 2006. Shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and long listed for the 2011 Man Asian Prize
The Good Muslim: A Post-Liberation War Bangladesh

“A novel asserts nothing; it provides a framework for thinking about things.” said Martin Amis, a British writer, in an interview with Rachel Cooke published in The Observer of 1 October 2006.
The Ballad of Ayesha: Ayesha and Her Country

Just like Behula, the people of Bangladesh never stopped persevering …
Letters to Namdeo Dhasal: Meditations of a Dalit Mystic

Over the last decade, India has been experiencing a major geo-political shift with respect to class, caste and communal relationships.
UNTITLED

No, you have no home.
BRUSH STROKES OF HISTORY AND A PERSONAL BRUSH

This is an aberrant situation…well, read on. Alam, in his Itihasher Korcha, quotes the Natore-born eminent historian Sir Jadunath
Transatlantic Transitions: Back to Global Future?

The term 'transatlantic relations' has emerged as a dominant paradigm in the study of relations between Europe and the United States.
Islam: A Short History

History by definition denotes all the events that happened in the past but recorded, as Winston Churchill puts it, by
Djinn City: Myth and Mystery in Dhaka's Underbelly

No need for a movie tonight! Grab yourself a cup of steaming hot chai, turn off all distractions, and get strapped in for the
A Tale of Rohingya: A Take on Dislocation and Displacement

The life of refugee people has always been difficult, and in the current world it has taken on a monstrous form across borders.
Through the Eyes of Mrs. Funnybones

Balancing beautifully between her panache and wit, Twinkle Khanna a.k.a. Mrs. Funnybones shares some insider's information of the
THE ETERNAL BARD

Just the other day I was watching over CNN the celebrated journalist Christianne Amanpour prefacing her interview of the veteran
Nirbachito Galpa: A Reflection of Middle-Class Lifestyle

Abul Hayat is a renowned Bangladeshi actor. Starting with Oedipus in 1969, he has acted in over five hundred plays to date. Not
The Best Asian Short Stories: Stories from a Changing Continent

A son worries whether his mother, who is travelling alone, will be able to haul her luggage down from the conveyor belt. An elderly
A Review of The Sunset Club

'Boorha Binch' is the term used by walkers and wanderers in the historical urban jewel that are the Lodhi Gardens in central New Delhi.
The Uprising of 1857

There is perhaps no event in the long history of the British empire in India that continues to exert so strong and abiding a fascination as the great uprising of 1857.
Art Against Genocide: A Testament of Time

As much as the ongoing Rohingya crisis is being extensively covered by the local and international media, the distinct lack of a serious
In an Old Metropolis Once We Lived

When I put my first step
Pestilential Scourge - The Plague

Published in 1947, the background of Albert Camus' The Plague is that of Oran, a coastal town of colonial Algeria. The author certainly
Professor Nurul Islam’s Odyssey

This book is the story of Professor Nurul Islam, arguably Bangladesh's most famous living economist. The narrative begins with his
Once Upon a Night

Surabala and I went to school together, played husband and wife, being the kids that we were. Whenever I went to their house, her
ECLECTIC ESSAYS

Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and
Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women

The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
Going to Hatiya Island

At first sight of our island, I confess
Crescent: A Review

Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz
Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review

Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi