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Isabelo de los Reyes is an interesting case in Philippine history. Not quite among the ranks of the lunatics, paralytics, and pen-or-sword romantics at the turn of the 20th century who have at one time become the heads of coins if not the state, but...

In his latest book, Isabelo’s Archive (2012), Resil Mojares attempted to write Philippine history in fragments. Inspired by folklorist Isabelo de los Reyes’s quixotic project of compiling an archive of a nascent nation, he wrote his most experimental...

What would happen if one wrote about the truly marginal characters in Philippine history? Can national narratives accommodate stories that challenge the premises of the nation?
(Illustration by Gwendal Le Bec)
What would Philippine history look like if one were a Moro woman standing in Tawi-Tawi, sorting out smuggled iPhones and Blackberries from Borneo, eagerly awaiting money from a daughter working in Saudi Arabia? The answer is not easy to come by because...

What do Stephen Speaks and the Carpenter’s “You” all have in common? They were famous only in the Philippines. Glenn Tuazon explores the anatomy of the Philippine-only hit
(Illustration by Monica Ramos)
In the summer of 2003, an unknown band became one of the biggest bands in the Philippines. The success of Stephen Speaks was the product of a perfect storm; acoustic guitar music was in vogue, and digital downloading and CD burning were on the cusp of...