Author: Herman Lagon

“Filipinos are resilient.” It is our favorite national line—spoken by officials, flashed on...

There was a time when a master’s or doctorate felt almost sacred—a capstone of grit, patience, and...

A drop of rain patters on the windowpane of a modest boarding house in Tiwi, Barotac Nuevo,...

Something tender unfolds every second of November. Streets slow down, homes fill with the scent of...

You learn a lot about a culture by how it remembers—not just the dead, but the living who lived...