MY last good memory of this 2022 election was the photo of Leni Gerona Robredo, standing in line to vote. To non-Bikolanos, the public school where her precinct was located looked similar to the other voting places nondescript, low-roofed buildings, unused for some two years because of the pandemic. But journalists…
I was on the verge not breakdown for that is the fate of our lead, the Rev. Lawrence Shannon of titling this column piece “A Lizard, of all things, as metaphor,” but I can imagine how our readers may find repulsive the image that immediately greets them. Besides, Tennessee Williams has the…
Our best Filipino books of 2020
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Dec 29, 2020 2:57:26 PM
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endIndex: We asked a few critics, writers, and publishers to give us some of their best or favorite reads of 2020.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) I’d like to think there are more Filipinos who read this year. The success of online book fairs such as Aklatan and the ease of having a book or books delivered to your home have certainly satiated our need to explore worlds elsewhere or understand the direness of our situation.
In Glenn Diaz’s essay on the function of fiction in the time of the pandemic, he says, “Fictional stories are most ‘instructive,’ I feel, in these moments of overlaps and slippages, when they approximate our ‘real’ experiences and perceptions just enough that we are jarred to take a second hard look. What fiction provides is not ‘information’ or ‘facts’ in the way that guidebooks or think pieces dis