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South Africa must be good for the soul
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 modern. Everything this side of the Cape of Good Hope stands as a fitting chrome and steel backdrop to...
Haunting your feels: Celestine Trinidad’s ‘Ghost of a Feeling’
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 would think that and indie #romanceclass author and medical doctor Celestine Trinidad will tell you otherwise, in her YA...
Stories from our myths
As a child, I cut classes to go marinate in the library. There I got to delve into ancient cultures and the stories and mythology that were part of these bygone peoples’ lives. But, try as I might, I saw only snippets of...
Weaving spirit into poetry: Merlie Alunan’s ‘Running With Ghosts’
“I am about to sit down on the bench under the papaya tree when the shaking begins. It lasts for what seems like the longest time when the garden settles down, one of the boys who is helping me looks down into the...
Speaking of tyranny: Manuel C. Lahoz’s ‘Of Tyrants and Martyrs”
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 over three months after Martial Law was declared, just about the time Typhoon Undang exited the Philippine Area of...
National Hero, moving forward: Launching Rizal +
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 was human, one known for his wit and satirical writings as well as for his love for the land...
