in lieu of a field guide

Driftwood on Dry Land by T. S. Sungkit Jr., translated from Cebuano by T. S. Sungkit Jr. (UST Publishing House, 2013) I. Oral lite...

Last February 2017, I wrote the following in a blog post about the impending publication of Nick Joaquín's The Woman Who Had Two Nav...

My wing is ready to fly I would rather turn back For had I stayed mortal time I would have had little luck. – Gerhard Scholem, “Angeli...

"Society for the Filipino is a small rowboat: the barangay ," wrote Nick Joaquín in the beginning of " A Heritage of Small...

The Hand of the Enemy  (1962) by Kerima Polotan (University of the Philippines Press, 2010) If Nick Joaquín was to be believed, it was K...

The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Nick Joaquín (1961; Bookmark, 1991) Over damp Hong Kong the day dawned drizzling, astonishing with suns...

You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own...