6 books we recommend this week
When you go to a book-store, it is often difficult to choose from the plethora of newly released books available. The following list should help when deciding what new books to buy.
What ails Bangladesh's publishing industry?
The price we pay for the local paper takes advantage of that extra duty, and practically we are stuck with buying low quality local paper with questionable output often.
On Gabriel García Márquez’s unpublished manuscript
She has been coming to this hotel for the last 28 years, ever since her mother died, and has chosen to stay in the exact same room as she does every year. She uses the same road from the hotel to travel to her mother’s resting place and buys flowers from the same African woman.
Death will stop for you: A Letter
Today is your 50th birthday. Happy Birthday to you.
6 books we recommend this week
When you go to a book-store, it is often difficult to choose from the plethora of newly released books available. The following list should help when deciding what new books to buy.
What ails Bangladesh's publishing industry?
The price we pay for the local paper takes advantage of that extra duty, and practically we are stuck with buying low quality local paper with questionable output often.
Muslim women in the crucible of feminist theory
Writer and academic Elora Shehabuddin has lived in a number of countries and had a fair share of exposure to multicultural environments. Her lived experience must have proved helpful in bringing in a comprehensive perspective to the discussion in Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism (University of California Press 2021; University Press Limited 2022).
Blood, sweat, and football
The doctors told me that I should forget about playing football. But I just had one thing on my mind: I was going to be back on the pitch again and prove everyone wrong.
Hope over fate
Finding himself at the epicentre of the disaster, Abed realised that a large number of deaths (an estimated 500,000) in the “world’s deadliest known tropical cyclone” were not necessarily caused by the natural disaster.
On poet Sufia Kamal: A revolutionary journey
She came out from the cocoon of the accepted designated roles of women and marched forward to live an extraordinary life.
Children’s author Ali Imam no more
Ali Imam, the author of more than 600 books, breathed his last on Monday evening in the Bangladesh Medical College Hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.
Simon & Schuster's owner to let sale to Penguin fall apart, sources say
Bertelsmann will owe Paramount a USD 200 million break-up fee as a result of the transaction falling apart.