argue that the greatness of his writing lies in his themes used as well as deep intellectual analysis of Philippine culture embedded in his writing style.[9] Late Nick Joaquin The Late Nick Joaquin is defined by critics as the time 10 years after his absence from the field of fiction. These years, as defined by Lacaba, were about Joaquin devoting himself entirely to Free Press and journalistic writing. This was defined by Joaquin the essayist. He wrote under the pseudonym of Quijano de Manila. The beginning of Late Joaquin was seen after he had published two significant essays and three plays after 1975. Publications of Late Joaquin still deal with similar themes of history, paganism and Christianity and morality. His published article, The Manila Review on “Culture of History” represent his philosophy of the past which underlies many of his early works. Critics emphasizes that in the later works, there is a sharper emphasis on freedom and choice as seen in his publication in December 1975 titled “Fathers and Sons: A Melodrama in Three Reels” which was a dramatization of his earlier story “Three Generations”.[9] Bibliography May Day Eve (1947) Prose and Poems (1952) The House On Zapote Street (1960) The Woman Who had Two Navels (1961) La Naval de Manila and Other Essays (1964) A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966) Tropical Gothic (1972) A Question of Heroes (1977) Joseph Estrada and Other Sketches (1977) Nora Aunor & Other Profiles (1977) Ronnie Poe & Other Silhouettes (1977) Reportage on Lovers (1977) Reportage on Crime (1977) Amalia Fuentes & Other Etchings (1977) Gloria Diaz & Other Delineations (1977) Doveglion & Other Cameos (1977) Language of the Streets and Other Essays (1977) Manila: Sin City and Other Chronicles (1977) Pop Stories for Groovy Kids (1979) Reportage on the Marcoses (1979) Language of the Street and Other Essays (1980) The Ballad of the Five Battles (1981) Reportage on Politics (1981) Tropical Baroque (1982) The Aquinos of Tarlac: An Essay on History as Three Generations (1983) Almanac for Manileños Cave and Shadows (1983) The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power Apocalypse (1986) Collected Verse (1987) Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine Becoming (1988) Intramuros (1988) (Editor) Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young (1990) Mr. Rural Reform: The Times and Tidings of Manny Manahan (1990) The D.M. Guevara Story (1993) Mr. F.E.U., the