Listening inside Plato's cave

Walang Mabanaag (Unable to Decipher) by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (University of the Philippines Press, 2026) “Never mistranslate. Translation is sacred,” says a character (in subtitles, of course) in Bong Joon Ho’s film Okja (2017). In Walang Mabanaag, the latest offering from the prolific Filipino writer Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, the poet-translator has committed an