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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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Lualhati in the City

HINAHABOL ang bawat pangyayari. Hindi mabitawan ang mga pahina hanggang ‘di natatapos basahin. Nariyang mangingiti at maiinis ka sa mga nagaganap. Mapaiisip. Mapatatango. Ganyang-ganyan...

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...

The other side of the 2nd World War

Mauro Gia Samonte’s “Dr. Jose P. Laurel: Nation above self—a biography” There are two ways of viewing this book. One may dismiss it as an...
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A new Bahay Kubo for the World

TOP PHOTO—Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children Song is sold at Savage Mind Bookshop, located at 5 Peninsula St. Mayon Avenue, Tinago, Naga City. To...
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