Ericson Acosta is described by the individuals and groups campaigning for his freedom as an artist, journalist and cultural worker … More
Category: Literature
State Nationalism and the Humanization of Manuel Roxas: A Criticism of Peter Solis Nery’s The Passion of Jovita Fuentes
Like Antaeus in mythology who fought Hercules, the artist must needs stand always on solid earth, his feet on the … More
Musings on “The Guerilla is Like a Poet”
The poetry of the Filipino revolutionary leader Jose Ma Sison as collected in Prison and Beyond is part of a … More
Women’s Resistance and the Antigonean Power of Mourning in Ariel Dorfman’s Widows
In acts of defiance evocative of Antigone in Sophocles’ classic tragedy, the women protagonists of the Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman’s … More
Pleasures of the Text*
We need history, but not the way a spoiled loafer in the garden of knowledge needs it. –Nietzsche, Of the … More
A Critical Response to Genevieve Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila
On a personal note, I bought a signed copy of Genevieve L. Asenjo’s Lumbay ng Dila on a discounted price from … More
Taibo’s Four Hands
The beauty of it all was managing to weave it all together in a braid that would move through time … More
Blindness and Seeing
What if everybody goes blind all of a sudden? What would happen? Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago follows the … More
Pagtatagpo sa Kabilang Dulo: Panitikang Testimonial ng Desaparecidos
Desaparecidos, the national organization of the families of the disappeared, and Pagbutlak, the official student publication of the University of … More
Inspector Montalbano and The Terra-Cotta Dog
Andrea Camilleri’s The Terra-Cotta Dog starts out like any other good detective novel. The Sicilian sleuth Salvo Montalbano staged the … More
Bombard the Headquarters! 