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Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Editor-in-Chief of Philippines Graphic
Literature

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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Duterte’s battle for narrative

You either love him or hate him. There seems to be no middle ground in perceiving Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte as he went about...
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Marra comes back to Philippines Graphic

She was there when Philippines Graphic was born in June 1990. In those early days, Marra PL Lanot and her husband Jose “Pete” Lacaba...
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Graphic days & nights with Frank Sionil Jose

On the last day of his 97-year stay on earth, National Artist Frank Sionil Jose wrote about the Philippines and his hometown of Rosales,...
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A NEVER ENDING STORY: Lumads of Mindanao & their fight to keep their ancestral land

From 19 October to 02 November 2015, the Philippines Graphic ran a three-part feature on the Manobos of Mindanao. Below is the COMPLETE SERIES PART...
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Of Labor & Literature

It is a tale of conflict as old as societies and governments. In the age of antiquity, it was between master and slave. During...
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2 writers : Manuel E. Arguilla & Edgardo M. Reyes

They were never part of the trade union movement. In the labor-management schism that afflicted workers in their millions, the likes of Manuel E....
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In dubious battle: Organized labor in the time of COVID-19

TOP PHOTO: Building workers. A young man, hoists a bucket of cement up during the rebuilding, renovation, of a building in Tabuk on the...
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“Ang Pagbuo ng Baliana, Isang Musikal” all set to open at RCBC Plaza

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in partnership with MINT College and Kids Acts Philippines Inc., presents the Grand Winner of the Season 1 Young Creative Challenge Playwriting Category entitled "Ang Pagbuo ng Baliana" written by Esmeralda Cado Albis. The musical is brought to life on stage by the...

Benildean filmmakers win big at UP’s POV, FEU’s Sinepiyu

Student filmmakers from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde recently bagged major awards at the University of the Philippines’ Piling Obrang Vidyo XXII: Kalampag ng Kulay and Far Eastern University’s Sinepiyu XVIII: DIWA “Mula sa Lente ng Katauhan.” Leading the charge for Benilde were the student films “Budang, Badidang,...

Daniel Seavey drops “Love’s a Gun,” a lush slice of maximalist pop

Multi-platinum singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Daniel Seavey returns with new single "Love's a Gun" via Atlantic Records — a shimmering burst of maximalist pop. Already an instant fan-favorite, the track was first premiered live during his support run on Charlie Puth's Whatever's Clever! Tour. Initially written during a pre-tour trip to Stockholm with producers VERA (Lukas Graham, Peso Pluma) and Søren...

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