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Jose Wendell P. Capili

Jose Wendell P. Capili graduated from the University of Santo Tomas, the University of the Philippines Diliman, the University of Tokyo, the University of Cambridge, and the Australian National University. He is a Professor and Associate Dean for Public Affairs at the College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman.
Literature

Reclaiming Estrella Alfon: Magnificent Pioneer Woman

It was Estrella who emancipated me, who liberated me…I used to be a very uptight, closed person.—Francisco Arcellana (Fernandez and Alegre, Writers and Their...

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‘Let us not to the forgetting of our tales’

Indulge me for a while and let me make the roughest of conjectures: The lowest possible estimate for the total number of oral literary traditions in the country will be no less than four times the total number of ethnolinguistic groups across the Philippines.  A 2023 article published...

Darning

When all is done, Mama shows mehow to knot the final stitch, carefulnot to tug too tightly at the thread.The doctor must have performedthe same art on my birthing mother. Replace the surgical lightwith afternoon sun and the ob-gynremembers how her mother mendsthe bedsheets, the holes in the...

Discerning the age of innocence

It was probably the most unsettling and shocking piece of news that broke during that second week of October. After eating his share of hotdog and marshmallow-on-a-stick, a boy, aged 3, uses the stick to stab the heart of his four-year-old girl playmate. The girl dies, but lives...