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A new Bahay Kubo for the World

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TOP PHOTO—Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children Song is sold at Savage Mind Bookshop, located at 5 Peninsula St. Mayon Avenue, Tinago, Naga City. To...
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Tale of an Enchanted book

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“What is a city without enchantment?” asks Dr. Mary Jane Guazon-Uy in “The Book of Pedro Bautista” recently launched by Ateneo de Naga. This novelist...
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Portrait of the journalist as poet

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To the uninitiated, poetry and journalism appear to be opposite ends of a very wide spectrum. In reality, this is not so. Poetry is...
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Town and Country from the Pen of Three Women

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I collect rare books not only for that old-world scent trapped between their pages, but for that splendid bit of humanity revealed in each...
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South Africa must be good for the soul

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South Africa. A place of raw, untamed beauty. Its cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town in particular, rise from the burrowed ground at once splendid and...
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Haunting your feels: Celestine Trinidad’s ‘Ghost of a Feeling’

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One would think suicide and a doctor’s crisis of confidence in herself to be heavy topics, perhaps too heavy for a romance novel. One...
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Stories from our myths

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As a child, I cut classes to go marinate in the library. There I got to delve into ancient cultures and the stories and...
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Weaving spirit into poetry: Merlie Alunan’s ‘Running With Ghosts’

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“I am about to sit down on the bench under the papaya tree when the shaking begins. It lasts for what seems like the...
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Speaking of tyranny: Manuel C. Lahoz’s ‘Of Tyrants and Martyrs”

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  Reading Manuel C. Lahoz’s political memoir took me back to some of my earliest bad memories. I was born in 1972, just a bit...
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National Hero, moving forward: Launching Rizal +

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Before he was shot dead at dawn on Bagumbayan Field, Dr. Jose Rizal was a doctor—and he was a writer. Before all this, he...
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