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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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Neither overcoat nor cape

That day, all the lights were out. There was a strange combination of childish excitement and relief, sensing that, for a few hours, a...

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...

Lushly a biography Alfred A. Yuson’s “Lineage, Vision, Empire: Don Francisco ‘Paquito’ Ortigas, Jr.”

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...

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...
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