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The tremendous power of secrets: Cecilla Manguerra Brainard’s ‘Magdalena’
The first call of a novel is to tell a story. Not just any story, mind you, but the story only the author of the novel can tell in his or her unique way. What the reader is led to expect is a...
Che Sarigumba’s Puso pa rin ang Nagpasiya Todavía El Corazón Decidió: Putting Philosophy into the Romance Novel
Conjuring an image of love is not a skill that I believe can exist; until I savoured Che Sarigumba’s spells in Puso pa rin ang Nagpasiya. This is neither your typical romance novel nor Korean TV series. I was literally on the edge...
Laughing while love wins: Zsazsa Zaturrnah’s trip to Manila
When I first read Carlo Vergara’s comic on gay superhero Zsazsa Zaturrnah, it was two in the morning and I woke my neighbors with my borderline insane cackling. I’d been alone in the living room, laughing so hard it wasn’t a distant possibility...
Jover Laurio’s RESIBO ni Pinoy Ako Blog
Pinoy Ako Blog started as an anonymous blog critical of the Duterte administration. Much has been said about it, particularly by the administration’s most die-hard supporters. The blog also has a significant following, particularly among those who have expressed their displeasure over the incumbent administration. Such...
Lisandro Claudio’s Basagan Ng Trip
I have a particular fondness for essays that probably very few readers share.
My year takes me from the narratives of Orwell—a fixture on my bedside table—to some of the most exotic lyricists (like Octavio Paz’s The Labyrinth of Solitude and Joseph Epstein’s Narcissus...
Marra PL Lanot’s Cadena de Amor: Fire, rain, and remembering
This book of poems is dedicated to her three grand-children: twins Allegra Milagros and Elias Serafin, all of two years and 10 months, and Serena Indra, three months old.
Family is a connecting thread that runs through the lifetime of scenes and emotions caught...
