J.K. Rowling says she plans to return to writing for young people — and doesn't rule out another book set in Harry Potter's magical world.
Let me just punish you with another vocabulario, a Spanish-Tagalog dictionary, fallen apart at the seams, corners eaten away by termites. I always assumed I knew basic Spanish but this revealed to me how little I did.
Words from the Spanish-Tagalog ‘vocabulario’ or dictionary, Libreria Martinez, circa 1810
Novelist Philip Roth's decision to lay down his pen despite seemingly good health and his formerly unstoppable production at the age of 79, has stunned US literary circles.
David Levithan may write fiction for young adults, but his work beguiles readers of all sorts. You just have to be hopelessly romantic and optimistic. It’s his ability to render real life as both stunningly concrete and yet endlessly poetic that wins them over. Ironically, he may be best known for two captivating collaborations, 2006’s “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” with Rachel Cohn and 2010’s “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” with John Greene.
The epic of Bicolandia, “Ibalong,” is a mélange of fantastic stories with three heroes—Baltog, Handyong and Bantong—who got to battle against the elements, one-eyed monsters, giant flying sharks, crocodiles as big as boats, and other such fearful creatures.
The woman who turned her love and appreciation of the built environment into a pioneering and prize-winning career as an architecture critic has died. Ada Louise Huxtable was 91.
Her eyes lit bright with concentration, Taiwanese linguist Sung Li-may leans in expectantly as one of the planet's last 10 speakers of the Kanakanavu language shares his hopes for the future.
Stories about change and new beginnings kicked off the first Inquirer Read-Along session for the year. At Saturday’s session, actor and peace ambassador Mikael Daez, returning storyteller Dyali Justo, and child winners of the recently concluded 2nd Inquirer Read-Along Festival Storytelling Competition, Mark Nowel Eleuterio and Laila Rontos, regaled over 60 children with stories about a town that rediscovered laughter, a dragon who learned to accept his different nature, and a grasshopper who changed his naughty ways, among others.
