The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.

The Filipino writers in English in this volume were the "young writers" who came to Manila from the provinces or entered the university in the mid-30s, and whom the first generation remembered, encouraged, and published in the magazines they were then editing. The American influence shaped them and they shared the experience of war. Featured Filipino writers in English in this volume: Carlos Angeles, Francisco Arcellana, Emilio Aguilar Cruz, Ricaredo Demetillo, NVM Gonzalez, Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero, Sinai C. Hamada, Dominador I. Ilio, Pacita Pestaño Jacinto, Serafin Lanot, Armando Malay, Narciso G. Reyes, Trinidad Tarrosa Subido, Renato Tayag, Edilberto K. Tiempo, Edith C. Tiempo, Manuel A. Viray, and Rafael Zulueta Dela Costa.

Balik-Tanaw: The Road Taken is the memoir of the distinguished Filipino critic, Soledad S. Reyes. This book is a record of Reyess journey of more than seven decades where personal narrative intertwines with people and events, with social and political movements with which the country sought to negotiate the treacherous shoals in the postwar years. The account carries a fair amount of biographical data (as lodged in the critics memory in the absence of diaries), from her childhood into her college years. But as the context becomes wider and more complex, the narrative takes on a more analytical frame as she tries to make sense of disparate experiences whirling about her in the tumult of the 1970s and beyond, and in the startling changes in the political landscape, local and global, that now grip the Filipino nation. This account, according to the author, is a story of an individual constructing a narrative that seeks to impose order upon chaos by retrieving aspects of the past and weaving a series of recalcitrant experiences into a coherent whole. Published in association with De La Salle University Publishing House