Dazzling debuts, a word-of-mouth hit, plus this year’s bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more The most anticipated, discussed and accessorised novel of the year was Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), launched on a tide of tote bags and bucket hats. It’s a book about the accommodations of adulthood, …
2021 in books: what to look forward to this year
Kazuo Ishiguro returns with a novel about an artificial friend, Zadie Smith brings the Wife of Bath bang up to date, Bill Gates takes on the climate crisis … a literary calendar for the year ahead January 4 Winners of five Costa category awards announced. 8 The Father released – Florian Zeller directs an adaptation …
These Are The Best Books Of 2019
Fiction The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) In this magnificent novel, Whitehead once again draws inspiration from true atrocities of America’s past, this time creating a fictional account of a real-life Florida reform school for boys that was infamous for torturing and killing its poor black students, and then secretly burying their bodies, in …
Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read
I have been writing children’s fiction for more than 10 years now, and still I would hesitate to define it; it is a slippery, various, quicksilver thing. But I do know, with more certainty than I usually feel about anything, what it is not: it is not exclusively for children. When I write, I write …
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”হ্যাপি সাকরাইন” দিয়ে এ বছর চমকে দিয়েছিল ফেসবুক কর্তৃপক্ষ। চার বন্ধু মিলে দুপুরেই চলে গিয়েছিলাম প্রথমবারের মত এই উৎসবে সামিল হতে। ওই দিন শাঁখারিবাজারে পা রাখতেও ছিল চমক। বাকাট্টা বাকাট্টা চিৎকারে ছেলে-বুড়ো সবার কেটে যাওয়া ঘুড়ি ধরার প্রতিযোগিতা সবখানে। আকাশে ঘুড়ি দোকানে ঘুড়ি, এ যেন ঘুড়ির রাজ্য। শাঁখারিবাজার তাঁতিবাজারসহ পুরান ঢাকার প্রায় সব এলাকাতেই সাকরাইন …