AGOS: Modern European Writers in Filipino (Anvil Publishing; 272 pages; 2018) contends that while we have long been freed from our European colonial masters, we remain tethered to an image of a continent of kings and queens, of knights, and of demigods. It is an image hijacked by the literature of old and made famous the world over. Think Don Quixote, Beowulf, and Hamlet. Thus, the title of this collection of 14 short stories is a declaration that Europe has sailed the tides—agos in Filipino—of time and literature.

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