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THE SHELF / Your guide to feminist resistance

This International Women’s Day, Star Books and Literature brings to you a list of five books that delve into the history of feminist movements and feminist resistance.

1w ago

THE SHELF / Books about female rage

With International Women’s Day being celebrated across the world tomorrow, we here at Star Books and Literature decided to take a moment to read and reflect on the many expressions of female rage in both ancient and contemporary literature

1w ago

THE SHELF / 5 books to read while you’re sick

With cold waves sweeping the country, many of us have already succumbed to illnesses. For this list, we’ve compiled 5 books you could curl up with while on a sickbed

2m ago

THE SHELF / 5 Postcolonial novels: Voices from the Bengal Province

Here is a short list of her chants in fiction, creating a narrative of Bangali postcolonial resistance

4m ago

THE SHELF / 5 books posed as literary cannibalism

Literary cannibalism refers to the retellings of Western classics written by colonised or formerly colonised countries. These authors aim to decolonise the mindset of the readers of the popular literary classics. Decolonisation is a violent process, and by comparing this genre with cannibalism it demonstrates the brutality of it.

4m ago

THE SHELF / Six Edgar Allan Poe short stories to haunt your spooky season

Feeling guilty about something? After reading this story, you might think you feel guilty, but you'll never be quite sure if it's guilt or if your heart is just going to explode from sheer terror.

5m ago

THE SHELF / 8 books to read in celebration of Women in Translation month

Women in Translation Month is an annual celebration that toasts to women authors from around the globe who write in languages other than English

7m ago

THE SHELF / 'Joli No Udim Hitte': 5 Books to read on International Indigenous People’s Day

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed each year on August 9, serves as an important reminder of the many injustices that take place in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

7m ago

Your guide to feminist resistance

This International Women’s Day, Star Books and Literature brings to you a list of five books that delve into the history of feminist movements and feminist resistance.

1w ago

Books about female rage

With International Women’s Day being celebrated across the world tomorrow, we here at Star Books and Literature decided to take a moment to read and reflect on the many expressions of female rage in both ancient and contemporary literature

1w ago

5 books to read while you’re sick

With cold waves sweeping the country, many of us have already succumbed to illnesses. For this list, we’ve compiled 5 books you could curl up with while on a sickbed

2m ago

5 Postcolonial novels: Voices from the Bengal Province

Here is a short list of her chants in fiction, creating a narrative of Bangali postcolonial resistance

4m ago

5 books posed as literary cannibalism

Literary cannibalism refers to the retellings of Western classics written by colonised or formerly colonised countries. These authors aim to decolonise the mindset of the readers of the popular literary classics. Decolonisation is a violent process, and by comparing this genre with cannibalism it demonstrates the brutality of it.

4m ago

Six Edgar Allan Poe short stories to haunt your spooky season

Feeling guilty about something? After reading this story, you might think you feel guilty, but you'll never be quite sure if it's guilt or if your heart is just going to explode from sheer terror.

5m ago

8 books to read in celebration of Women in Translation month

Women in Translation Month is an annual celebration that toasts to women authors from around the globe who write in languages other than English

7m ago

'Joli No Udim Hitte': 5 Books to read on International Indigenous People’s Day

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, observed each year on August 9, serves as an important reminder of the many injustices that take place in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

7m ago

4 books I was grateful to read this year

It's true, I feel differently about books that I previously disliked or enjoyed reading and books that I want as a physical presence in my life

7m ago

6 books that shed light on student movements in Bangladesh

One of the movements which helped accelerate the Liberation War of Bangladesh was the Mass Uprising of 1969.

7m ago