Write Ups / Book Reviews

Read it? Review it.

Members write about the books they borrowed — what stayed, what didn't, and who should read it next.

Lalsalu: the shrine that ate a village

Seventy-eight years on, Syed Waliullah's slim novel is still the sharpest Bangla book about the business of belief.

Tahmima Anam writes 1971 from the kitchen, the garden and the locked bedroom — and it is all the more powerful for it.

A book for children that turns out to be a book about grief.

Elias's last novel is demanding, digressive and absolutely worth it.