The centennial edition of major Filipino writer Jose Garcia Villa's collected poetry
Known as the ?Pope of Greenwich Village, ? Jose Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, a[...]
Over three million Filipino Americans now live in the US, but popular histories of this rich, complicated nation are still rare. From ancient Malay settlements to Spanish colonization, the American occupation and beyond, A "History of the Philippines" recasts various Philippine narratives with an ey[...]
The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation and beyond, "History of the Philippines" recast[...]