Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing
“[Ambeth Ocampo] always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to...
Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote
“The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of...
Looking Back 4: Chulalongkorn's Elephants
Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: “Chulalongkorn’s elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels...
Looking Back 5: Rizal's Teeth, Bonifacio's Bones
“In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks back not just at our history but also on his life as an historian, this book being written for...
Looking Back 6: Prehistoric Philippines
In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history–whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards...
Looking Back 7: Storm Chasers
History shows that in the end, Filipinos do survive and overcome, but despite the twenty typhoons that ravage parts of the country every year, why are we not better prepared...
Looking Back 8: Virgin of Balintawak
The 19th century Vocabulario de la lengua tagala defines historietta [small story] as monting salitang ualang casaysayan. Casaysayan here did not mean history but sense or meaning. These essays narrate...
Looking Back 9: Demonyo Tables
Finding a devil in a table carving means going beyond textbooks to look at objects. Each artifact, no matter how seemingly insignificant as a low denomination coin, has a story...
Louie Cordero: Golden Rule
A catalog of Louie Cordero's solo exhibition 'Golden Rule: Non-Traditional Thai Painting' held at the Bangkok University Gallery in 2015. The exhibition features a series of large-scale paintings produced by...