Paul Nadal is completing a dissertation, at UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, on the relationship between history and literature in the Filipino novel. He also teaches at The New School as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.
Paul Nadal
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Writing on Public Books
How To Catch a Philippine Serial Killer
F. H. Batacan’s Smaller and Smaller Circles, a gripping crime thriller, winner of the prestigious Philippine National Book Award and until now available only in the Philippines, begins with the effluvia of decaying muck. “Awful vapors rising lazily with the heat,” writes Batacan, “wet paper and rot and excrement mixing in a soup of odors […]
Revolution Amnesia
Philippine National Book Award–recipient Gina Apostol is a novelist with a penchant for unlikely heroes. Gun Dealers’ Daughter, her American debut, is no exception. The bulk of the novel offers the confession of Soledad Soliman, or “Sol,” a wealthy young woman turned communist rebel who had participated in a murder plot against an American counterinsurgency […]
