Good news, bookworms! For the first time in over three years, the world’s biggest book sal, known as the Big Bad Wolf (BBW), is coming back to Manila. From June 24 to July 3, 2023, Filipino book lovers can have a field day and choose from BBW’s large and unique selection of literary works....
The University of Santo Tomas and Nicolaus Copernicus University/ *Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika * (NCU/UMK) in Toruń, Poland, will be collaborating on the restoration of the rare first edition copy of Copernicus’ book on heliocentrism housed in the UST Archives. Three professional restorers...
A National Book Store branch in One Bonifacio High Street (BHS) has finally come to life, as the company opened its 235th branch located at the second floor of One BHS Mall, in Taguig City. “The truth is, I’ve been wanting to have a presence of the National Book Store in One Bonifacio High...
Two of these novels display how wry humor can be an add-on for great fiction. And there are novels that dare to expand the genre of Crime Fiction and Fantasy, with formidable results. Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes Author Rupert Holmes is best known to baby boomers as the composer of Escape...
The book tour of "A Sustainable Future" was well received by the Filipino community abroad. Indeed, the venue at the Philippine Consulate was packed, and the organizers could not keep up with the clamor of the guests to have their books signed by the man of the hour - "A Sustainable Future"...
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Bangladesh said Saturday it had withdrawn two new school textbooks after protests from Islamist groups incensed by a curriculum overhaul to recognise transgender identities, same-sex relationships and secular science. Thousands have demonstrated in the capital Dhaka since last...
Romance doesn’t always have to be a couple in love. It can be about grand gestures, affinity to an era, and making things count in a larger than life manner. These novels “bleed” romance—and in good ways. 'The Bleeding' by Johana Gustawsson; 'Or What You Will' by Jo Walton; 'The Whalebone...
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. —Doris Lessing May I go out on a limb here and declare that I am happy? Yes, I am, which is not to say I have no problems because I have plenty. I can’t say, either, that I am fulfilled. My days stretch out and I’m constantly...
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary and former Build, Build, Build committee chair Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo has released the second edition of her book, "Night Owl," which includes a new chapter on the present administration's Build Better More thrust. "Night...
A love letter to the art of handwork WRITE THEN AND THERE Displayed in the National Museum of the Philippines is this Ambahan made by Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan awardee, the Mangyan poet, Ginaw Bilog. The Ambahan is a metaphoric poem with seven-syllable lines using the surat mangyan etched on bamboo...
Everyone has left Babino, North Macedonia, yet it remains to be a ‘village of enlightenment,’ attracting up to 3,500 visitors a year By Darko Duridanski Photos by Robert Atanasovski/AFP KEEPER OF FLAME Stevo Stepanovski in the remarkable village library that has 20,000 books in Babino, North...
Angelo R. Lacuesta’s first novel is a deeply personal story that spans decades of changes—political, social, economic, technological—in the Philippines HAPPINESS IN TEXT Joy , in its synopsis, is a story of joy—lived forward, backward, sideways, and upside down, in lives and loves that...
