Using Beauty to Overpower Racism

Using Beauty to Overpower Racism

Why Indian-Filipina writer Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments was Barnes and Noble’s 2020 Book of the Year.

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Book Review: The Story of a Life

Book Review: The Story of a Life

A book’s new edition broadens the picture of life in the underground, at a time when various forces came together with a single aim, and a young hero who gave his all.

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Freedom, She Wrote

Freedom, She Wrote

The women journalists who educated and fought for us during the Marcos dictatorship.

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Healing From an Unbearable Grief

Healing From an Unbearable Grief

How a mother eventually recovers from the murder of her only son.

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An Enjoyable Period Piece

An Enjoyable Period Piece

Go back in time, to a murder in 1900s Philippines, through Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s latest novel.

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Race and the Asian Male in America

Race and the Asian Male in America

Book Review: Big Little Man by Alex Tizon 

Lonely Asian males, it’s not all your fault. They really are against you, but there’s hope.

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Book Review: A Big Hearted Book on Little Manila

Book Review: A Big Hearted Book on Little Manila

Author Dawn Mabalon digs up the past and brings Stockton, California’s pioneer Filipino community back to life.

    

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Book Review: Swords As Ploughshares

Book Review: Swords As Ploughshares

Book Review: Peace Warriors: On the Trail with Filipino Soldiers by Criselda Yabes gives a different picture of Filipino soldiers in the Mindanao peace process.

    

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Book Review: "Human Face" by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo

Book Review: "Human Face" by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo

Ceres Doyo’s collection of gutsy reportage.

    

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