When we reflect on the historic events of the May 2010 elections, they seem like a single, blinding burst of...
Perhaps one of the most challenging creative tasks for a writer would be to build an entire world from their...
Journeying to a far-off country to represent the Philippines is among the most rarefied of Filipino ambitions. These are the...
About a month or two ago, I was in the bookstore browsing when a book cover caught my eye. I...
For a society that elevates education to the level of necessity, Filipinos are often and surprisingly perplexed by the varied...
A book’s true power may lie in the fact that, without the limitation of images, the words have endless capability to create. But then there are those rare few authors who can actually expand the reader’s experience by melding the exposition of select text with the cohesive addition of art.
What exactly qualifies as an author’s last book? Is the latest book published prior to the author’s death? Or is it that previously undiscovered manuscript found and released years after the creator’s demise? What if it’s an unfinished manuscript, finished by someone else? The matter is enough of a mystery by itself.
Sticks, stones, scalding water, electric shock, water cure, sitting on a block of ice, isolation, flaying—these and other forms of torture may have broken bones, even the lives and spirit of many political prisoners in the ’70 and ’80s.
As president of ABC News from 1997 through 2010, David Westin guided the network through an impressive list of history-making stories: the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the 2000 election, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"It's the Middle Class, Stupid!" (Blue Rider Press/Penguin Group), by James Carville and Stan Greenberg Longtime Democratic political consultant James Carville and strategist Stan Greenberg have written a recipe for President Barack Obama's re-election in their book, "It's the Middle Class, Stupid!"
