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The Manila Critics Circle

By Isagani Cruz | November 25, 2015 - 9:00am

Next week, the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board (NBDB) will give the 34th National Book Awards at appropriate ceremonies in the National Museum.

Education and Home

The Essence and Soul of a Culture

September 23, 2015 - 10:00am

 "Without language, the finest invention of the human imagination, there is no memory, no history, no culture, no civilization," said revered poet and literary luminary Dr. Gémino H. Abad, as he addressed...

Freeman Cebu Lifestyle

Kudos to literary awardees

By Alfred A. Yuson | September 6, 2015 - 10:00am

It’s that time of year when our writer-friends reap awards, for individual works or lifetime achievement.

Arts and Culture

You had me at ‘lit’

By Samantha King | February 14, 2014 - 12:00am

Reading is a way of broadcasting the kind of person you want to be perceived as. Something especially significant when you’re...

Young Star

Towards a regional literary community

By Butch Dalisay | October 14, 2013 - 12:00am

We were back in Bangkok very recently, about the same time as last year, for another gathering of the newish Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators Association (APWriters).

Arts and Culture

Nicole Kidman to star in ‘The Silent Wife’

October 12, 2013 - 12:00am

Nicole Kidman will star in and produce an adaptation of “The Silent Wife,” the summer literary breakout novel by A.S.A Harrison. Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan have teamed with Kidman and Per Saari’s...

Freeman Cebu Entertainment

Why literature matters

By Isagani Cruz | October 10, 2013 - 12:00am

You cannot get more scientific than the journal entitled “Science,” the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Education and Home

Found in translation

By Butch Dalisay | September 30, 2013 - 12:00am

I hadn’t been back to Indonesia in 30 years — the last time being in 1983, when Manong Frankie Sionil Jose brought...

Arts and Culture

Calling all Filipino writers

By Butch Dalisay | July 8, 2013 - 12:00am

I’ll begin with a sheepish apology (and a word of thanks) this week, for a stupid mistake I made in my piece about hats...

Arts and Culture

Literary networking

By Butch Dalisay | March 4, 2013 - 12:00am

At the recent Taboan Philippine Writers Festival held in Dumaguete last month, I sat on a panel devoted to the topic of “Literary Networking,” which deals with how writers come into contact with one another...

Arts and Culture