Special Feature
On Philosophy and Commitment: For a Philosophy of Action
Bernard-Henri Levy
Literature
Exile, Cosmopolitanism and the Diasporic Intellectual: The Example of Edward Said
Fakrul Alam
The Confessional Poetry of Robert Lowell: Artistry or Accuracy?
Shanjida Khatun Boksh
Using Graphic Novels to Teach English Majors in Bangladeshi Universities
ATM Sajedul Huq
The Quest for Beauty in Rabindranath Tagore’s Poetry
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam and Rashed Mahmud
Distant Ties and Troubled Bonds in Trans-cultural Family Relations: A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth” and “Hell-Heaven”
Shirin Akter Popy
Darwin, Cognition and Literary Evocations of the Mind: The Case of Requiem for a Nun
Golam Rabbani
Lives Gone Astray: The Impact of Dysfunctional Families on Literary Characters
Sifat-E-Rabbani
Theater of Deschooling: Safdar Hashmi’s Conscientization Theater
Vellikkeel Raghavan
Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Bangladesh: A Study of the Cultural Implications of Dramatic Adaptation
Nadia Rahman and Tahmina Zaman
Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines as a political Novel
Nasihul Wadud
Strong Women in Rabindranath Tagore’s “Laboratory” and “Mussulmanir Galpa”
Niaz Zaman
Language
Impact of Personality on English Language Learning in Bangladesh
Tahmina Anwar
Investigating undergraduate ESL learners’ readiness for autonomous learning
Ahmed Bashir
Teachers’ Awareness, Opportunities and Challenges of Adapting EFL Materials in Bangladeshi Universities
Md. Shayeekh-Us-Saleheen
Demotivation in English Language Courses: Exploration of Reasons and Suggestions
Nasreen Sultana
Book Reviews
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Revisiting an Old Argument or Refashioning a Future?
Manzoorul Abedin
K. Anis Ahmed’s The World in My Hands: Pandu Indeed!
Golam Sarwar Chowdhury
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology: Nearing Singularity
Shamsad Mortuza