Marcos enjoins Filipinos to visit museums

MANILA – President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday called on Filipinos to keep visiting museums, citing the importance of these institutions in showcasing rich Filipino cultural...

How to win the Booker prize: is there a formula for ‘the finest in fiction’?

They say that everyone has a book in them. But how about a Booker prize? That’s probably what the six shortlisted authors of the Booker prize...

Dude food is not patriotic – vegetables and moderation are more deeply rooted in the nation’s early history

Dude food is on a roll in America. Gargantuan pizzas, footlong subs, high-stacked burgers and extra-loaded nachos remain a basic choice for any real or pretend...

FVR exhibit launched at AFP Museum

MANILA – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) paid a glowing tribute to late former President Fidel V. Ramos with the launch of an exhibit highlighting...

Do multimillion-dollar dinosaur auctions erode trust in science?

Dinosaurs are in the news these days, but it’s not just for groundbreaking discoveries. More and more paleontologists are ringing alarm bells about high-profile auctions in...

How whiteness was invented and fashioned in Britain’s colonial age of expansion

Fashion is political — today as in the past. As Britain’s Empire dramatically expanded, people of all ranks lived with clothing and everyday objects in startlingly...

Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more

Dame Hilary Mantel was a writer of immense skill and originality, and her death represents an incalculable loss to British literature. She will be chiefly remembered...

Inmates’ paintings featured in Pasay trade exhibit

Silence of the poets – has an ancient tradition of commemorative verse died with the Queen?

Not so long ago, the death of a monarch would have been a cue for outpourings of elegies and poetic commemorations. One might have thought the...

These high school ‘classics’ have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: Shakespeare’s “Romeo and...