Response to Memory, History, and Forgetting: Literature as Antidote

[These are the comments I gave as reactor to the “Ang Unyon ug ang Katawhan Lecture” by Dr. Rose Arong … More

Maya Daniel: poet-painter, revolutionary

This was the last Facebook update of Maya Daniel just before Aug. 14 midnight. A few minutes later, he would … More

[This essay is forthcoming in the next issue of Pagbutlak, the official student publication at UP Visayas Miag-ao.] After settling on the … More

The library fee takes a significant portion of the school fees we’re paying in graduate school. This is the biggest reason … More

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North Korean futurist architecture, credits to Koryo Group ,We need workshops that are based on mutual interest,…

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? Poem: Duta’ng Ginapakig-awayan with Filipino and English Translations ? Halad sa mga Tumanduk sa Sentral…

February is the month of love. Here are 5 classic must-read novels that you can read this month, whether you … More

António Lobo Antunes’ Splendor of Portugal is a splendid novel dealing with the ugliness of the Portuguese colonial enterprise in … More

Criticism of didacticism is common fare when talking of works of literature. Poems or novels must not express political views. … More

I wrote this reflection for the Philippine Online Chronicles. I was reading the final pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of … More

Papa and Fidel is about, in Karl Alexander’s own words, “what might have happened, what should have happened if Ernest … More

Tol, pasok ako sa UP! Pano ba yan, iwan mo na kami? Malabo, wala naman akong pang-tuition. —TV commercial The … More

Disappointing. Nothing less can describe the supposedly untold stories unveiled by Mario Miclat in Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions. Miclat’s … More