04/02/2023
https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/02/04/opinion/columns/ofw-lives-in-pinoy-konek/1877177
OFW lives in 'Pinoy Konek'
MY column the other day on allegedly stolen items at the Manila International Airport got a lot of feedback from overseas Filipino workers. They wrote to me or sent messages to my...
23/09/2022
https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/09/24/opinion/columns/the-speechwriter/1859617
The speechwriter
EMMANUEL was a young man from the windblown island of K in the Bicol Region, an island seemingly adrift in the Pacific Ocean. After graduating valedictorian from high school, where...
17/09/2022
https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/09/17/opinion/columns/riverrun-goes-to-the-world/1858791
Riverrun goes to the world
MY novel, Riverrun, was published by Penguin Random House Southeast Asia in August 2020. Our book launches scheduled in several countries did not materialize because of Covid-19....
21/05/2022
Red-tagging publishers and bookstores
THE Manila Critics Circle, which has been choosing the winners of the annual National Book Awards since 1991, has denounced the red-tagging of Adarna Books, which has been...
21/05/2022
Scholars, academics sign manifesto vs fake news
MORE than a thousand scholars and academics have signed the 'Manifesto in Defense of Historical Truth and Academic Freedom' expressing their opposition to all forms of...