BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Between home and elsewhere
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM Books & Literature
THE SHELF / 5 books to rescue you from brainrot
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM Books & Literature
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: GRAPHIC NOVEL / The tragedy of ‘Demon Slayer’
10 October 2025, 14:30 PM Books & Literature
FICTION / The truth factory
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM ⁠⁠Fiction
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The Indosphere and its discontents
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM Books & Literature

6 books that I read at the end of last year… I hated 5 of them

You know that feeling when you crack open a new book and you’re convinced that this is the knight in all its paperback shining armour that will save you from your reading slump? Yeah.
7 January 2026, 18:00 PM

Remembering Razia Khan Amin: The pen that forged a generation’s courage

Rest in peace, esteemed RKA madam. Your presence endures in the pages you wrote, the students you shaped, and the quiet brilliance you gifted to our literary world.
28 December 2025, 12:19 PM

Between home and elsewhere

Some books explain immigrant life through nostalgia. Others through big dramatic events. Sharbari Ahmed does neither in <I>The Strangest of Fruit</I>. Her stories focus on the quieter things like small humiliations, awkward encounters, the private wounds people carry, and the memories they don’t
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM

5 books to rescue you from brainrot

Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
17 October 2025, 14:45 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 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

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

In which Arundhati gives it those ones

This is not a book review. At least not in the traditional sense where the reviewer recaps the gist of a book, quoting and analyzing parts, drawing or pointing to conclusions.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM

The truth factory

By the year 2035, Dhaka forgets the scent of the Gulshan-Banani lake.
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM

The Indosphere and its discontents

In the year 1025, a fleet of warships set sail from the Coromandel Coast of southern India on a mission of conquest.
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM

Sonnet of the riverbank: Remembering Al Mahmud, the poet

Some poets arrive like rain on parched soil—needing no defense, only recognition. Al Mahmud (1936–2019) was one of them. And yet, in the usual crookedness of history, we have found ourselves having to defend what should already have been canonised. There was a time—not long ago—when his name uns
29 August 2025, 19:49 PM

‘Three Daughters of Eve’: A story which amplifies its relevancy with time

Elif Shafak has adroitly balanced the story between Peri’s suffering as a woman and religion’s role in mending our relationships and lives.
20 August 2025, 14:18 PM

Space between the scrolls

Children pulled from rubble in Gaza, dust-white faces against red bricks—
15 August 2025, 19:00 PM

Kumu: Nani’s salt

My nani’s nickname was Bokul—like the flower. In English, it’s called the Spanish Cherry or Mimusops elengi, though no translation quite captures its softness.
8 August 2025, 19:12 PM

To fold a city into silence

The bus stop was empty as usual, I sat waiting for a sight of one. Then he came. A man in a faded red shirt with a bag hanging on his back, running as if the devil himself had taken out a lease on his shadow.
1 August 2025, 19:48 PM

The Booker 2025 longlist announced: A global showcase of the power of fiction

The 2025 Booker Prize longlist was revealed on Tuesday, July 29, showcasing a diverse ensemble of literary brilliance, with novels that spanned continents, genres, and narrative styles
31 July 2025, 11:57 AM

Tracing an uprising in strokes

Graffiti has long played a powerful role in revolutions around the world. From the walls of Paris in 1968 to the slogans of the Arab Spring, street art has served as one of the most immediate and accessible forms of resistance.
30 July 2025, 18:00 PM

From the margins, a voice remembered

Review of ‘The Last Bench’ (Ekadā, 2025) by Adhir Biswas
16 July 2025, 18:00 PM

Dhaka in slow motion

The city still wants to breathe.
27 June 2025, 18:42 PM

Who is feminist literature for?

For today’s feminists, the focus isn’t just on challenging or breaking social norms, but also on asking, who gets to break these norms? And to what extent?
26 June 2025, 18:00 PM