Solidaridad has been a special part of my life in Manila for more than two decades. Its presence is very unassuming and I was witness to all the changes to the establishments around it, but the bookstore stayed the same. I’m proud to have brought my friends there, and also former foreign co-workers who wanted… Read More Solidaridad: A Soliloquy
A son of Manila, my late father owned an imposing hardcover brown volume which he treasured and encouraged his teenaged children to read. We used the busyness of youth as an excuse not to when really, we were intimidated by its thickness. The book has mysteriously vanished, to our belated sorrow. So it was with… Read More Manila, My Manila: Glories of the Past Resurrected
“In a way, we were all massacred. Only, some of us were fortunate to have lived through it.” Crimson as arterial blood, the cover of the nonfiction book Rampage : MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. Scott gives an idea of the extremely graphic violence depicted inside. It’s an unputdownable weighty… Read More Rampage: When Manila’s Streets Ran Red with Blood
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