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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...

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...

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...

KATAGA1: Dulce et Utile

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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How silence breaks beautifully

In the very conservative, kyeme-filled Philippines, literary works don’t skim the hem of sexual propriety—or, to be more exact, the hem of non-sexual propriety. We live in a country where so many people live to pretend that sex does not happen at all—amid...
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Ode to the last Samurai

  There are books of essays that read like badly-written sitcoms—those unwelcoming, forgettable narratives that love listening to their own voices bellowing from the pages. On the other hand, there are those which break the mould of non-fiction storytelling and serve us stories that stay...
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