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Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Editor-in-Chief of Philippines Graphic
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When there is no Planet B, how do you get to point C?

The astronauts got it right the first time. It was 1971 and Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell peered through the small window of their spacecraft and saw a 360-degree panoramic view of the Earth, Moon, Sun, and the stars.”
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Of Pandesal & Pinoy Politics

Even bread has the flavor of politics in the Philippines. Celebrate World Pandesal Day at 9 a.m. on Oct. 16 (Thursday) at the 86-year-old...
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Portable Magic: Books and their power to transport worlds…and why reading books has to be encouraged in the Philippines

The child loved reading fairy tales. But she had a very peculiar view of Prince Charming. “Mama,” she told her mother. “I don’t like...
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When business & books combine to promote reading

Q&A with Shereen T. Sy, pioneer of SM Book Nook For now, only two malls out of 87 SM malls in the Philippines have them....
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The humor of D. Paulo Dizon

A Google-search of his name will not yield much data or information. He is probably one of the Filipino fiction writers from the 1950s...
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The Philippines Graphic @ 96: After the pandemic

First published in 1927, the Graphic has survived two global cataclysms—the Second World War and the COVID-19 pandemic. It underwent a third resurrection of...
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Sa Batis ng Tula

A memorial book featuring the poems of Rogelio Mangahas Compiled by his wife Fe Mangahas | Photos Courtesy of Alma Miclat It was towards Christmas in...
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Paz Marquez-Benitez: Between literature and history

Philippine history boiled, bubbled, and spewed trouble in the years that marked the birth and growing up years of Paz Marquez-Benitez. The future short story...
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NJLA 2023: Return of a Literary Tradition

For 75 years since it first became a magazine in 1927, the Philippines Graphic has featured the literary works of Filipino short story writers...
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12 years later, revisiting Marcel

The years snap back to the past like a terribly stretched rubber band suddenly released to hit the wrist. It’s been 12 years, Marcel....
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A Triangle of Triangles

She's a great little housewifeThough sometimes she talks like a foolBut she helps at the store in the holiday rushAnd she picks up the kids after schoolAnd she puts down the phone when her husband comes homeAnd she changes from mother to wife'Til she feels the words...

Love by Algorithm

“Good morning, Doc.” “Have a seat Mr. Peñaflor. I am Dr. Anton Abalos, but you can call me Ant or Doc Ant, whichever makes you more comfortable. Before anything else, may I have permission to record our consultation?” “Will that be uploaded, Doc Ant?” “I only keep a local copy.” “It’s...

Born of the Earth

We were all once born of the earth— keeper of her breath, kin to root and river, to feather and fur, to the anito, the diwata, and the taw’t talun, spirits who dwell around us. But that was before conquest, before the forgetting. The invaders came with the sword and the cross, with maps and muskets, naming what was never nameless, claiming...

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