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10/09/2026

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10/09/2026

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NOW AVAILABLE AT : "Noli Me Tangere" by Jose Rizal, Filipino Translation by Edgar Calabia Samar 📚✨

Take note of our availability schedule and buying limit!

See you at the Manila International Book Fair, Anvil Fam! 🫶

📅 Ongoing until September 13, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM–8:00 PM
📌 Booths 175–183, Aisle L, Hall 2
📍 SMX Convention Center Manila, Pasay City

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08/09/2026

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Final batch alert, book lovers! 📚✨

We’re sharing the last set of USTPH meet-and-greet and book signing schedules for MIBF 2026—your final chance to plan your visit, meet our featured authors, and have your favorite titles signed.

Bring your books, invite your friends, and make room for more stories, conversations, and photo moments at the UST Publishing House booth. ✍️💛

Visit us at USTPH Booth # 365, 366, 367, Aisle D – Near Hall 1 Entrance, from September 9 to 13, 2026, at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia, Pasay.
See you at the fair, and don’t miss this final lineup!

08/09/2026

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𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑: 𝐀𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 📚✨

⭐️ with Merlinda Bobis, Claire Betita de Guzman, Joshene Bersales, Edgar Calabia Samar, Eugene Evasco, Domz Agsaway, and Lio Mangubat ⭐️

The ultimate collab! We’re celebrating a new chapter with a special showcase of our 2026 titles and the who brought them to life.

Join us at the Manila International Book Fair 2026 this Sunday!

🗓️ September 13 (Sunday)
🕙 12:00 PM–2:00 PM
📍 Main Stage, Hall 1, SMX Convention Center Manila

See you, Anvil Fam! 🫶❤️

08/09/2026

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In The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and philosophical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism. Combining a survey of these influential critical movements and a critique of their methodology, Jameson lays bare their presuppositions, questioning whether the methods of Saussurean linguistics can adequately capture the concrete realities of time and history. The result is a unique and thought-provoking confrontation of two major strands of modern thought and a central work in the development of Jameson’s monumental critical project.

Out now in with a new foreword by Caleb Smith and Paul North.

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08/09/2026

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐰, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬
𝘈 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬

September 22, 2026 (Tuesday), 2:00-4:00 PM
Pilar Herrera Lecture Hall, Palma Hall, UP Diliman

This book talk presents Marcos, Martial Law, and the Complexities of Memory in the Philippines (Routledge, 2026). The edited volume examines memory as an arena of contestation and offers analytical tools for understanding authoritarian nostalgia in the face of democratic challenges.

It will feature a roundtable discussion by the editors and select chapter authors, including Asst. Professor Francisco Jayme Paolo A. Guiang, Maria Sofia Amparo F. Santiago-Jimenez, Asst. Prof. John Carlo S. Punongbayan, and Assoc. Prof. Jay Rome de los Santos. Prof. Patricio N. Abinales, Ph.D., from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, will provide commentary on the discussion.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/BookTalkML

See you there!

Read: https://history.upd.edu.ph/upcoming/marcos-martial-law-complexities/

07/09/2026

Next time baka Nietzsche na ang naka-flex. 😜😜

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RIZAL MEETS THE RACKET 🇵🇭🎾

Alex Eala reconnects with her Filipino roots as she poses with a copy of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere after her stint at the US Open.

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Read related story: https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/sports/othersports/1001353/alex-eala-excited-to-represent-philippines-at-2026-asian-games/story/

06/09/2026

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Jordan Peterson showed up to the philosophers’ late-night support group expecting to teach everyone how to fix their lives. Nietzsche asked him to confront the abyss, Dostoevsky asked him to confront the human soul, and Camus simply asked why any of this mattered. Marx, meanwhile, was already wondering who owned the table.

After three hours of increasingly complicated arguments, Peterson finally sighed and said, “Maybe I should just clean my room.” The philosophers nodded in silence. At last, they had found common ground. 💀📚

06/09/2026

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A shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun, Katherine Marsh wrote in 2023. https://theatln.tc/dTcNIvrl

She spoke with educators and librarians about this trend, and they gave many explanations for it, but one of the most compelling that she heard was rooted in how our education system teaches kids to relate to books.�When she was in school, Marsh recalled, the focus was on reading as many books as possible and engaging emotionally with them as a way to develop the requisite skills. “Now the focus on reading analytically seems to be squashing that organic enjoyment,” Marsh wrote. She cited an example from the third-grade English-language-arts Common Core standard, which asks that kids “determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.”

There is a fun, easy way to introduce this concept: reading Peggy Parish’s classic, ‘Amelia Bedelia, in which the eponymous maid follows commands such as “Draw the drapes when the sun comes in” by drawing a picture of the curtains. But here’s how one educator experienced in writing Common Core–aligned curricula proposed this be taught: First, teachers introduce the concepts of nonliteral and figurative language, then kids read a single paragraph from “Amelia Bedelia” and answer written questions, Marsh noted.

“The best way to present an abstract idea to kids is by hooking them on a story,” Marsh continued. “The process of meeting a character and following them through a series of conflicts is the fun part of reading. Jumping into a paragraph in the middle of a book is about as appealing for most kids as cleaning their room.” But as several educators told her, “the advent of accountability laws and policies, starting with No Child Left Behind in 2001, and accompanying high-stakes assessments based on standards, be they Common Core or similar state alternatives, has put enormous pressure on instructors to teach to these tests at the expense of best practices.”

“We can’t let tests control how teachers teach,” Marsh argued at the link. “Close reading may be easy to measure, but it’s not the way to get kids to fall in love with storytelling.” �

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05/09/2026

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In Marxism and Form, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, offers a pioneering look at major European Marxist and Frankfurt School thinkers—Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Bloch, Lukács, and Sartre. Through penetrating readings, Jameson develops an influential mode of critical engagement that places art and culture at the heart of Marxist theory. The result lays the foundations for the entirety of Jameson’s monumental critical project—and remains a timely and vital work of aesthetic criticism for readers today.

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