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On education and seduction: a harvest of prose
by Joel Pablo Salud, Manila Critics Circle
There’s a growing fan base on the lookout for nonfiction books these days, and not without good cause: the dearth of facts.
Fiction, both literary and the pot-boiler variety, still holds considerable sway among book fans. But the...
Speculating the speculative
by Jonah Basanta García
Striping the wands and the sages for the conventional magic show, Dean Francis Alfar’s Salamanca contextualized mysticism for the Philippines. It must be clear that what I am talking about is not the anting-anting noragimat but a metaphysical one; the...
ELITE: A voyeur’s peek into the darker realms of the principalia
by Joel Pablo Salud
Elite.
The word hums as if it were a bomb waiting to be donated. In the Philippine context, the word is almost always uttered and handled with care. More so because they are associated with oligarchy, the cacique, the alta...
J. Eduardo Malaya’s Frontlines of Diplomacy back-to-back with Forging Partnerships
Written over a span of eight years, these two books are really roads to discovering and understanding how the Philippines relate to other countries and how the nations of the world interact with the Philippines.
And what a time to discover all these nuggets...
The thing with feathers—and nostalgia
You see, the thing with feathers is that, if you’re, say, a falcon, having feathers is probably the best thing that has ever happened to you as these enable you to soar into the sky. But then again, that is the thing with...
Alma Anonas-Carpio’s How to Tame Your Tikbalang Without Even Trying
An acquaintance had explained her book-buying habits in this way: she gets print copies of the books she wants people to know she owns, but only downloads e-books for titles she won’t ever admit to wanting or having. I don’t follow the same...
