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A beginner’s guide to Big Bad Wolf 2019

Ida Torres
Posted at Feb 22 04:53 PM

Things can go crazy at the year’s biggest book sale, which opens today. If you’re planning to go for the first time, here’s hand battle plan. Read more »

Sneak peek: 2 million books await as Big Bad Wolf returns to Manila

Jeeves de Veyra
Updated as of Feb 21 06:40 PM

The biggest mobile book sale in the world is back in Manila! Read more »

5 things to expect from 2019 Big Bad Wolf book sale

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 04:05 PM

Are you ready for the world’s biggest book sale? Read more »

'I don't want to hide' says Rushdie, 30 years after fatwa

Fiachra Gibbons, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 11 01:32 PM

The novelist's life changed forever on February 14, 1989, when Iran's spiritual leader ordered Rushdie's execution after branding his novel "The Satanic Verses" blasphemous. Read more »

Teach your child how to pray with Scarlet Snow Belo’s book

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 28 06:44 PM

Celebrity doctors Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho have shared the prayers that they teach their adorable daughter, Scarlet Snow, in a new book under ABS-CBN Publishing. Read more »

We tried the Finnish art of drinking at home alone in your underwear. These are our findings

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Updated as of Jan 27 02:30 PM

Perhaps the most underrated book of 2018, Pantsdrunk has been hailed by, well, a few as the modern man’s guide to enlightenment. Read more »

The eternal Tita Lacambra-Ayala

ANC-X Staff
Posted at Jan 25 07:46 PM

Mother to Joey Ayala and Cynthia Alexander, Tita Lacambra-Ayala was a legend in her own right and was an iconic voice in the world of Philippine letters. Read more »

Xyza Cruz Bacani is telling the great Filipino story not in words but in photos

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Updated as of Jan 19 07:48 PM

In her book We Are Like Air, award-winning photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani tells us the story of her mother, but she could also be telling us the story of countless Filipino migrant workers the world over.   Read more »

Visprint, home of Bob Ong books, is set to close

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 14 06:49 PM

The rumors are true. Read more »

We just read the new Filipino novel the literati is talking about

Audrey Carpio
Updated as of Jan 12 04:34 PM

Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto, published by Soho Press, was met with astounding reviews when it came out in November, and has been chosen one of the best books of 2018 by Publisher’s Weekly. Of course we wanted to know what the fuss is about Read more »

Author Lang Leav to visit PH in February

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 01:03 PM

Poet and novelist Lang Leav will return to the Philippines next month. Read more »

How the “Noli Me Tangere” was our first content to go viral

ANCX
Posted at Dec 30 12:08 PM

Even before the internet spawned its various (social media) revolutions, the Noli Me Tangere was the first text to spread like wild fire, despite the fact one can get arrested when caught with a copy Read more »

First wives, last rites, and the last book Jose Rizal ever read

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Updated as of Dec 30 08:03 PM

The Imitation of Christ is supposedly the last book Rizal ever read, bequeathed to his “wife” Josephine Bracken before his execution. It is believed he had not one but two copies of the tome—but what exactly did this mean to the revolution, and to the course of our nation’s history? Is it the missing proof of our National Hero’s alleged retraction? Read more »

Flaneuring with Jessica Zafra: A review of the new Twisted Travels

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Posted at Dec 10 12:09 PM

This is the Zafra of my coming-of-age, the star of the cocktail party—if the star attended cocktail parties at all. Read more »

The top 10 reasons to visit L.A.

Patricia Tumang
Updated as of Nov 21 07:55 AM

From food trucks to street art, Los Angeles is teeming with flavors and sights that make it one vibrant destination Read more »

Pinoy graphic novel series to become Netflix anime series

ANCX Staff
Updated as of Nov 10 10:24 AM

Netflix anime has just announced that they are adapting Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo’s  cult favourite graphic novel Trese.  Read more »

To each his own pugad: when did comics become political?

Paolo Vergara
Updated as of Nov 05 08:29 AM

Sometimes, entertainment is a more accurate state of the nation address Read more »

The 10 most significant comic books of all time

Emil M. Flores
Updated as of Nov 06 11:18 AM

A comic book enthusiast lists the titles that defined the zeitgeist Read more »

24 books to accompany you for the open road

From the Vault archives
Posted at Oct 22 04:05 PM

Drop your phone and get lost--while you're on the way to your destination Read more »

Whizzpopping worlds collide at Roald Dahl Museum

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 18 04:02 PM

A museum in the same village of Great Missenden where author Roald Dahl lived, reopens to the public on Saturday following an extensive renovation triggered by a flash flood. Read more »