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In this imagined conversation among 20 writers about their fathers, may we realize what our own has taught us A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated...

If Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after, would we have reason to remember them? RUMINATE Sufi poet Rumi Was his love of Shams of Tabriz, the nomad, “his master,” his friend and teacher, and companion on the arduous road to wisdom, the ancient Sufi poet Rumi’s secret? Nobody knows the...

Our reality and the pieces of ourselves we tend to forget Illustration by Samy Löwe William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d cupid painted blind.” Does it still ring true in this day and age? A...

I’d like to read Felice Sta. Maria ’s The Foods of Jose Rizal (Anvil, 2012), an intriguing tour of the 19th century by way of Rizal’s food adventures culled from his autobiography and correspondence, biographies written on him, interviews with people who knew him, and accounts about the...

An impossible conversation on loss because, like tears, a quote from some of our favorite writers can wash away our sorrows Illustration by Ariana Maralit I’m on a late-night drive, along an empty street, listening to  The Smoking Popes . The 1990s pop punk band from Chicago is...