• Daily Star Books’ Favourite Reads of 2020

    Out of all the books that I had to speed through for work this year, Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind was an exception.

  • “What I read in 2020”: Writers Select

    We asked some of the prominent writers and academics from Bangladesh about the books they most enjoyed in 2020. Some of them confessed that the year has been too difficult to find much time for reading.

  • Girl, Woman, Other: A Review

    Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo is a beautiful rendition of the intertwining lives of people in modern Britain. Twelve people, most of whom are women, each dedicated a chapter, are seen in the best and worst moments of their lives.

  • The Season of Comfy Reads

    Is it just us, or do the cold winds of December make you want to bring down your favourite childhood stories, classics hardcovers, and delicious thrillers from your shelves too?

  • The Hypocrisy of Marriage in South Asia

    It is a truth universally acknowledged by her many fans that Jane Austen’s sharp wit, complex characters, subtle social reproach, and tantalising storytelling are almost unparalleled.

  • Repulsive, But For A Reason

    The mind of ten-year-old Jas—the narrator of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s 2020 International Booker Prize-winning The Discomfort of Evening (Faber Books,

  • The Politics of Losing Home

    In August 2017, the Myanmar military perpetrated a genocide on the Rohingyas, an ethnic group residing in Northern Rakhine. Large numbers of Rohingyas were killed,

  • DS Books publications on Bangladesh and its Liberation

    A collection of our freedom's history.

  • Tarashankar’s ‘1971’

    Tarashankar Bandopadhyay 1971 (Daily Star Books,2015) was initially supposed to be published as two separate novellas, Shutpar Tapashya and Ekti Kalo Meyer Kahini,

  • On Bangladesh: A Reading List from 2020

    How has neoliberalism been shaping Bangladesh’s state policy? What are the implications of a neoliberal model of development for the state? Anu