e.g. Anthology 1

NOTE: Shipping for e.g. Anthology 1 starts next week, March 25. Please note we will be pausing shipments during the Holy Week.

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e.g. Anthology 1 is a collection of works from e.g.’s maiden year. Among the featured works are the intimate writings of the late Vicente L. Rafael, an eminent postcolonial historian whose academic works shaped Philippine and Southeast Asian historiography.

This inaugural issue of the annual e.g. anthology was created in conversation with our book catalogue—Exploding Galaxies’ canon of lost Philippine classics. This year’s anthology aims to widen the field in which we discuss our classics and to reinvest contemporary meaning into our long literary tradition, renewing the connections between past and contemporary, classic and experimental, lost and deleted. Together, Exploding Galaxies and e.g. constellate pinpricked pendants within what is a much larger, richer world of letters—of endless other for examples extending outward from any single work.

Writing by: Glenn Diaz, Vicente L. Rafael, Lisandro E. Claudio, Angelo R. Lacuesta, Alvin Yapan, Christian Benitez, Charlie S. Veric 

Artwork by: Lesley-Anne Cao, Kawayan de Guia, Gary-Ross Pastrana, The Weather Bureau, Czar Kristoff J.P., Kitty Taniguchi

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