the quiet ones (2017), yñiga (2022)
manila
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My second novel Yñiga, about a woman and her cat, political violence and CIA shenanigans in Cold War-era Philippines, is out today in North America from Coffee House Press! coffeehousepress.org/product…
I’m editing a forthcoming issue of Longhand, UP DECL’s journal, dedicated to creative writing studies. Pls consider submitting! Guidelines here: longhandjournal.com/submissi…
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goethe was 65 when he read hafez in translation, called him his twin and wrote back to a man who’d been dead in shiraz for four hundred years with the west-östlicher divan. a century later iqbal read the divan, understood it as a letter and answered goethe with payam-e-mashriq.
she always says she's not the story but the lucidity of sally rooney's politics is also a win for the no quotation marks for dialogue community
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Bestselling author Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be sold in the U.K. due to her support for Palestine Action, a protest organization labeled as a “terrorist group” under the U.K.’s Terrorism Act 2000:
Rooney said in a statement: “In July 2025, the direct-action protest group Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organization in the U.K. The following month, I wrote an opinion piece expressing my intention to go on supporting Palestine Action, which is not a proscribed or otherwise prohibited group here in the Republic of Ireland."
“As a result, the fulfilment of contracts to publish my work in the U.K. could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the U.K. I have made every effort to be honest with the public about my beliefs and intentions, and I am wholly prepared to accept the consequences.”
variety.com/2026/biz/news/sa…
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REST IN POWER, TATAY ELMER ✊
Pumanaw na si Tatay Elmer Cordero, kilalang transport leader at miyembro ng PISTON, ngayong araw, Oktubre 7.
Inatake sa puso si Tatay Elmer noong Setyembre 29 habang lumalahok sa welga ng mga drayber at komyuter laban sa oil price hike.
Nakilala si Tatay Elmer noong pandemya nang arestuhin sila ng mga pulis habang nasa protesta. Humihiling sila noon ng sapat na suporta para sa jeepney drivers at operators sa panahon ng lockdown.
Kahit maysakit, tuluy-tuloy na lumahok si Tatay Elmer sa mga welga at protesta ng mga drayber at iba't ibang sektor.
(Larawan ni Mark Cayetano/Altermidya)
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“One way to understand the class alliance that has coalesced around Bolsonarismo is to think of it as the meeting of those who have given up waiting for the promises of modernization to be realized, and those who have stopped pretending that the promises they made were real.”
What is happening in Brazil, and why do these elections matter so much? We asked a philosopher, a social scientist, a journalist and an organizer.
Now up on North South Notes: by Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha, Piero Locatelli and Stephanie Weatherbee Brito
northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to…
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Bolsonaro did not win a landslide or even a majority. He's edged in front by about 2%, despite the full force of the US & Israeli govts throwing everything at this election, manipulating the process at every step.
Even under these conditions, Brazil's social movements fight on.
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"there is an ontological difference even before an aesthetic one". This is key. It does not matter how good your machine is at regurgitating a simulacrum of human imagination, how skilled it is at fooling people, or how efficient it is at that subterfuge. It is a priori fucked up
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Does anyone remember that Reddit post where someone's aunt was in love with a kapre and the kapre kept saying no. The kapre felt so harassed that it left the tree 😭😭😭
