Essay

  Three claps silenced the whole place. Everyone transfixed their gaze to the person on the stage, the Executive Director of Alliance Française de Manille, Jean Pierre Dumont. He announced that the show will start in a while. I proceeded to my seat right after...

Very rarely do I hear fiction writers disparaged for their fiction like it was some crime or disease people should steer clear of. Not from a film critic, playwright or anyone involved in the writing art. Not from a newspaperman, however thinly veiled. As a...

Aside from the raging buses and jeepneys on Taft Avenue, the sun gave no mercy to the sidewalk vendors and pedestrians who sometimes, if not often, intentionally not use the proper crossing lane. And I am no exemption to that. It was break time....

I have, more than once dreamt, of the chance to reach out to as many students and teachers of writing as possible, be that in journalism or literature. I feel every writer of some experience must hold fast to this responsibility of sharing...

A caveat: I’m no lawyer. As a writer, I work mainly along the neighborhood of logic. And logic tells me that the bill lowering the age of criminal liability can have unintended consequences. Legal and societal perception as to what a child is according...

Twenty-one people dead. Ninety-seven injured. That was the toll when two bombs exploded at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo on July 27. The twin explosions occurred about a few minutes apart, survivors said. The first explosion took place inside...