Essay / The writing’s boring, so he’s a third-class writer
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Essay
Some authors are gadflies, ever stinging and nettling the established order. Some write for more or less the same reason a carpenter works with wood, or a sous-chef does mise en place.
Poetry / You ask me
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Poetry
Book Review: Fiction / The queen who would not stay dead
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Nonfiction / A historian’s vision vis-a-vis Hindutva mythmaking
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Fiction / Lira’s glasses
19 July 2026, 19:00 PM
Fiction
Event Report / Special Discussion Marks Abul Hasnat’s Birth Anniversary: ‘Nabiner Shahittya: Shwapna O Shwapnabhongo’
19 July 2026, 17:49 PM
News
Tribute / The teacher beyond the classroom
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Tribute
Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Poetry / Home
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
What becomes increasingly evident across Bahl’s three novels is her sustained fascination with the emotional significance of almosts and maybes.
News Report / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News Report / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026, 22:03 PM
Event Report / “Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
15 July 2026, 21:38 PM
News Report / Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize following AI review
3 July 2026, 20:09 PM
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
Not every story ends with rejoicing. Not all questions are answered within one lifetime. Not everyone will get to fulfil their dreams. All my protagonists are incomplete until the end. And the end itself offers no catharsis. It’s the same darkness that was present when the reader met them the first time. I write about the world and the people within it the way I have experienced the world.
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
Event Report / Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
19 May 2026, 14:26 PM
The bilingual poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved, (Oitijjhya, 2026) by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud was launched on Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event was organised by Oitijjhya Publications and moderated by Mostafa Mushfiq.
Event Report / Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
17 May 2026, 17:16 PM
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay / Ghosts in the secretariat: Mapping the Bangladeshi Gothic
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
Why academic writing deserves to be beautiful
The refusal to write beautifully is often justified in the name of neutrality, of detachment, of discipline.
17 October 2025, 04:45 AM
A mundane tragedy
In her first book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Anchor, 1999), Kiran Desai wrote a comic fable of a man who escapes the world by climbing a tree.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The death of the film and the rise of its maker
Novels that explore the life of a filmmaker are few and far between. When I think of a film, it’s usually the actors that are at the center of my attention and more and more recent novels attest to that.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Babitz vs. Ephron: The cool girls from the coast
Where Babitz is like the intimidating older sister you could only listen to in an obsessed quiet, Ephron feels more like a friend translating my internal monologue into the perfect words.
15 October 2025, 13:45 PM
Navigating the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
This year’s Booker Prize will be announced on November 10 in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and livestreamed on Booker Prize’s social channels.
12 October 2025, 10:49 AM
A good teacher teaches; an extraordinary teacher inspires
Today, I stood quietly for a while in front of Room 2064 on the second floor of the Arts Building—a place where I had stood countless times before, each time leaving with his warmth and affection.
11 October 2025, 16:00 PM
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
The hair fair
On the northern side of Dholgram, a very large field hosts a fair every year–a Hair Fair, where people gather to show off their hair. The one who has the longest hair gets the highest honour. All kinds of hair can be seen–entangled, shiny, untidy, thin, black, and grey–all sorts of hairy people
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
Transmutation
The torn tune of a broken violin.Signifies the evanescence of joy..So many faded voices intermingle .This day and the night. .Moonlight has disappeared .In the sky overcast with commingled clouds. .The wind is sombre with the sadness .Of Bismillah’s ‘she
10 October 2025, 19:10 PM
The tragedy of ‘Demon Slayer’
As 'Demon Slayer' grips the world with its engaging story and out-of-the-world visuals, one can’t help but wonder about the anime’s tragedy hidden behind its scenic moments and painful farewells
10 October 2025, 14:30 PM
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Wins for his 'compelling and visionary oeuvre'
9 October 2025, 11:21 AM
Nobel literature buzz tips Western male author
Experts give nod to an Australian, a Romanian, a Swiss and two Hungarians
9 October 2025, 06:47 AM
Blood, desire, and the fight against patriarchy
As we approach Halloween this October, I thought a story about the supernatural would be the most appropriate book review choice.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Cages of flesh and bone: Deconstructing social hierarchies with ‘The Zamindar’s Ghost’ and ‘Shakchunni’
In the mist-covered hills of Ooty and the famine-ravaged villages of Bengal, they speak of ghosts. They whisper of a Zamindar’s phantom haunting a grand manor and a shape-shifting shakchunni preying on a crumbling estate.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
7 lyrical fantasy books: Where prose becomes poetry
These are books that invite you to pause over a line, to linger in a paragraph, to lose yourself not in spectacle but in rhythm
7 October 2025, 11:14 AM
UK author Jilly Cooper dies aged 88: agent
Her agent said in a statement Monday
6 October 2025, 10:10 AM
Inheritance of luck
I train myself not to meet their eyes—
those begging at corners,
3 October 2025, 19:30 PM
The ghosts of memory, regret, and guilt return: A conversation with Ayman Asib Shadhin
He debuted as a screenwriter with the dark comedy–thriller Mainkar Chipay (2020), the first Bangladeshi ZEE5 original film, followed by Contract (2021), the platform’s first Bangladeshi original series, which he co-wrote and adapted from Mohammad Nazimuddin’s bestselling thriller.
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
Durga
In the hush—footsteps fill the laden streets, .grasshoppers teeth to return home. Veiled divine mother, .she blooms in shards—from under the rain.from beyond the sallow moon.in her lion’s gait… tidal sorrow pushing through .your swallowing metropolitan heap. .
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
‘Pustokaloy’: Where books breathe and memories speak
Notable works include Jinnatun Jannat’s “Canvas 1947: DADA”, a mixed-media compilation that traces her family’s displacement during Partition through digitally printed photographs, watercolours, and ink drawings.
2 October 2025, 13:45 PM
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