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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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Expanding the center from Kilometer Zero

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Stories would always come from something, from someone; it is an impossibility to just appear on a piece of paper, on a laptop screen,...
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Lushly a biography Alfred A. Yuson’s “Lineage, Vision, Empire: Don Francisco ‘Paquito’ Ortigas, Jr.”

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One would think that lush storytelling and adroit turns of witty phrase belong in fiction rather than in the creative non-fiction required to tell...
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A writer in search of an author

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“Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did...
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KATAGA1: Dulce et Utile

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It appears to be an endless debate whether art should be for art’s sake or for social transformation. Interestingly, “Kataga,” in their first book...
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Spitting Fire and Farce: Lourd De Veyra’s Little Book of Speeches

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Voltaire said,“Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to this world.” What he might have failed to...
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The other side of the 2nd World War

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Mauro Gia Samonte’s “Dr. Jose P. Laurel: Nation above self—a biography” There are two ways of viewing this book. One may dismiss it as an...
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Discernments: A look from the eyes of a Critic—and why you should be

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The status quo will always be questioned, challenged, and criticized, in the name of a higher state of being, in the name of surpassing...
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Elmer Ordoñez’ “Father’s Doppelganger”: Old friends & memories of war on a rainy afternoon

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Photos courtesy of Arkibong Bayan, Dr. Elmer Ordoñez, and Ishmael Ordoñez Maybe, it is his favorite—dark pants and that green-ochre polo shirt with vertical black...
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