"How does Tagore intoxicate a growing young man . . . .? How has Dhaka transitioned through the Partition of Bengal and the birth of the University of Dhaka? . . . . how does one remember-- with ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

Ideas, Thoughts and Memories: Bengali Literary Essays: A Selection in Translation is collection of Bangla literary essays starting from Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay (1827–1894) to the contemporary Anita ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All great writers have a life and an afterlife. The afterlife begins with the reassessment of the oeuvre and ...

Literary essays were our big story for spring, too, but one could argue that they can never get too much attention. Consider the numerous anthologies on our longlist, from n+1, the New Republic, the ...