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'It's worth it to write and to fight': Filipino voices at Frankfurt Book Fair
Reading and Such
November 6, 2025

'It's worth it to write and to fight': Filipino voices at Frankfurt Book Fair

By Alya B. Honasan
Butch Dalisay (beside fictionist Robin Sebolino) on writing about time in fiction Ambeth Ocampo leads a Rizal walk through…
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Being Caridad Sanchez’s daughter: Loving in the midst of a long goodbye
Reading and Such
October 29, 2025

Being Caridad Sanchez’s daughter: Loving in the midst of a long goodbye

By Elizabeth Lolarga
All photos by Elizabeth Lolarga In the world of celebrity queendom, author Cathy Sanchez Babao has lived with the appendage “daughter of…
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'Filipino voices belong among the world’s greatest literatures'—Sen. Loren Legarda
Reading and Such
October 17, 2025

'Filipino voices belong among the world’s greatest literatures'—Sen. Loren Legarda

By TheDiarist.Ph
Sen. Loren Legarda with, from left, Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, head of the German Book Trade Association; Minister of State for Culture…
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Hwang Boreum’s bookshop is a place of rest
Reading and Such
October 3, 2025

Hwang Boreum’s bookshop is a place of rest

By Liana Garcellano
The author’s autographed book, her name in Korean script (Photo by Liana Garcellano) THE rule in reading fiction is to never assume…
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Del Tolentino the closest thing to a Renaissance man I knew
Reading and Such
August 27, 2025

Del Tolentino the closest thing to a Renaissance man I knew

By Elizabeth Lolarga
Photos from the book’ Iskulumbing: Reading Delfin Tolentino Jr.’ Delfin Tolentino Jr. was the closest thing to a Renaissance man I knew…
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Why, to me, Ina Garten is the most credible TV chef
Reading and Such
August 15, 2025

Why, to me, Ina Garten is the most credible TV chef

By Elizabeth Lolarga
Ina Garten to me is the most credible TV chef, bar none. Nigella Lawson may have all the sensual moves of a goddess. Martha Stewart may have…
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Would PNoy have allowed this book?
Reading and Such
June 26, 2025

Would PNoy have allowed this book?

By TheDiarist.Ph
(On Tuesday, June 24, the book ‘PNoy Filipino’ was launched during a memorial lecture at Ateneo de Manila University, on the…
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How half a day at Dia del Libro nearly wiped me out
Reading and Such
June 2, 2025

How half a day at Dia del Libro nearly wiped me out

By Elizabeth Lolarga
Dia del Libro gesture of offering a rose at the registration table. Foreground are books in Spanish one can pick from Text and photos by…
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Ex-banker investigates roots of our identity and religious art it spawned
Reading and Such
May 25, 2025

Ex-banker investigates roots of our identity and religious art it spawned

By Vergel O. Santos
This is the afterword to ‘Roots of Identity,’ a book of essays by Renato L. Santos, with Alice Guillermo, published by Leon…
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Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista: A poet happens
Reading and Such
April 30, 2025

Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista: A poet happens

By Elizabeth Lolarga
(The following were remarks given by the author in the panel discussion on ‘Reading the National Artists’ at the Teatro Amianan…
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