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The princess and the corn
by Marie Yuvienco
There’s this legal koan relating to free speech cases that’s supposed to stump first-year students of constitutional law. Why it’s necessary to stump first-year law students as they tend to be stupid anyways has never been satisfactorily explained, but the question...
Jeepney phaseout: Modernization for whom?
by Michelle Lado
Last March 17, various jeepney drivers and operators in the country conducted a transport strike to protest the PUV modernization program of the government.
According to the transport group PISTON (Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide), the protest centers in...
Just what the doctor proscribed
by Marie Yuvienco
The judge, rather. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from complying therewith is the bedrock of practically all legal systems of civilized societies. Most people operate in a gray zone of ignorance which generally serves them just fine but because...
Writing in the Age of Tokhang: Message to the Fellows of the recently-concluded 57th U.P. National Writers Workshop for Mid-Career Authors
by Rolando B. Tolentino
*Photos used with permission from Likhaan: University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. Vlad Gonzales is this year's director of the 2018 UPNWW
Sa mga manunulat, kaibigan at bisita,
Anim na araw ang nakakaraan, kami’y mga magkakasabay na estranghero sa bus paakyat...
Beached blanket bingo
by Marie Yuvienco
The object of trying to get away from it all is to get away from it all, which you cannot really do in Boracay. Not today, anyway, and it has not been possible for quite some time now. The island was...
Lessons after 10 years and a day
By Joel Pablo Salud
I didn’t get to spend 10 years working as editor for the country’s longest-running news and literary magazine without a harvest of lessons here and there. Lessons that had kept my feet on the ground regardless of where I’ve set...
