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The Portrait of the Writer as a Critic
The books which are closest to my heart and which evoke a certain...
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Muslim Shahittya Shamaj: Dhaka’s First Movement for the Freedom of Thought
As societies and economies started transitioning in the aftermath...
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Farida Hossain, Writing with Grace
On October 9, 1965—a day before the World Children’s Day...
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‘A Gift for a Ghost’: Spain’s Great New Graphic Novel
Borja González is a self-taught illustrator, and you both can and...
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On Gender Mainstreaming and Governance in South Asia
Despite much of the conversations and advances across countries...
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Shashi Tharoor Looks Through A Glass Darkly, For Democracy
This is a must-read book for anyone worried about the...
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The Fall of A Great America
In a near-perfect echo of today’s world, Nobel Prize-winning...
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Whose Land Is It Anyway?
Land—its ownership, its deep history, its uses and abuses—forms the...
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The Metamorphosis of a Country
The epigraph of The Old Drift (Hogarth Press, 2020), taken from...
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Sweet, Sour, and Savoury: A Post-Partition Tale
There are few pleasures in the life of a Bangali that come close to...
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5 New Books to Look Out For in 2021
Asha Ray is a coder who, upon reconnecting with a high school love...
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Author Rabeya Khatun Passes Away at 86
Prolific writer Rabeya Khatun, a recipient of the Bangla Academy...
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Tintin: A flawed hero that every kid needs to know
Read our tribute to Tintin comics online, on The Daily Star website,
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‘Adhunik Mojar Mojar Bhoot’: Father-son conversations turn into a story book
Four-year-old Sharanyo was bored from the lengthy lockdown during...
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“What I read in 2020”: Writers Select
We asked some of the prominent writers and academics from...
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Reading Re(ar)view: A Wrap on Reading Challenges and Recording Stats
As the final pages of 2020 flick away, a lot of us find ourselves...
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Repulsive, But For A Reason
The mind of ten-year-old Jas—the narrator of Marieke Lucas...
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DS Books publications on Bangladesh and its Liberation
A collection of our freedom's history.
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Daily Star Books’ Favourite Reads of 2020
Out of all the books that I had to speed through for work this year...
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The Hypocrisy of Marriage in South Asia
It is a truth universally acknowledged by her many fans that Jane...
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A History of the Destruction of Knowledge
Humanity has always had an ambivalent relationship with knowledge....
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The Politics of Losing Home
In August 2017, the Myanmar military perpetrated a genocide on the...
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The Season of Comfy Reads
Is it just us, or do the cold winds of December make you want to...
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Bangladesh at 49: A Portrait in Books
It has been almost five decades since Bangladesh became independent...
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On discovering the poetry of Louise Glück, Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
Louise Glück’s poetry is at once deeply personal and ubiquitous. Articles explaining her work demur from calling it confessional, and they may be right. It doesn’t feel like the thoughts and feelings of another; the speaker confessing seems more vulnerable, as if they’re opening up directly to you. The sceneries she weaves are odd and alluring, and behind the deceptively simple lines are layers of meaning.
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The mango-powered superhero you need to know about
Of all the notable works done on visual media in our country, Shabash by Mighty Punch Studio came as a welcome surprise to me. From the tone of storytelling to the beautiful visuals, Mighty Punch Studios paint a unique stroke.
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Shelves of deceit
When the lockdown was enforced and we were all confined to our homes, I began organising my bookshelf and no longer had stray paperbacks all over the house. I could finally spread my legs while taking a nap. This was received with great enthusiasm and approval of my mother, and confused glares of my cat.
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Teacher Tales with SHOUT and Daily Star Books!
Did you watch our very special Teacher’s Day Facebook and YouTube Live with the immensely popular Professor Asrar Chowdhury of
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Enola Holmes: The book behind the film
Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of 221B Baker Street, has a sister. Her name is Enola Holmes, and despite being much younger than him, she shows powers of deductive reasoning that foretell her advent into the world of mystery and intrigue.
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A family comes undone in Leesa Gazi’s ‘Hellfire’
Bright and cold on a winter afternoon, in the hours leading up to lunch, the kitchen of a Bengali family sizzles with tension. Refrigerated meat is thawed and spices are crushed and pestled.
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Should we separate art from the artist?
When I was in 9th grade, a friend introduced me to the works of director Lars von Trier, starting with the film Dogville (2003). I’d never seen a feature film play out so well, in such intensity, with nothing but a largely empty sound stage for a film set.
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Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI
Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
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Nabil Rahman yearns for big truths with few words in ‘Water Bodies’
About this book, I’d like to speak simply. Because Nabil Rahman’s Water Bodies (Nokta/ Boobook, 2020) speaks simply too, without frills or embellishment.
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Sketchy memories
Travis Dandro’s King of King Court: A Memoir (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019) is a large, dense book that reads light and fast. The coming of age story is packed with the raw emotional power of the author’s traumatic childhood.