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100 Years of Graphic
LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE OF PHILIPPINE WRITING
Written by National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera. First published in Philippine Graphic, January 1968.
ONLY the very naive or the very cynical would try to predict the future course of Philippine literature. There are only the weekly magazines or the occasional books as...
Any day in one’s life
Questions and reflections in a "writing experiment" dealing with language, time, memory, birth, mortality and other human concerns.
Only a writing experiment. Choose at random a future date—don't even think, Does it fall on a Tuesday?—and resolve to pay close attention, noting whatever...
THE PETRON SELLOUT
The sale of the national oil company to a foreign corporation betrays the national interest, endangers the country’s security, and sticks of graft and corruption.
Petron Corporation is unquestionably the most valuable corporate asset of the Philippine government—the most precious gem in the country’s...
THE SECRET (PRESENT AND FUTURE) OF SEASCAPES
Now and in the foreseeable future, all that the Filipino doing literature should aim for is to create in the context of the multicultural reality around him.
When recently, a Philippine Daily Inquirer correspondent wrote from Davao about a novel in Cebuano just issued...
FILIPINOS ARE CLUMSY LOVERS
Valentine reportage from February of 1969.
Caroline Kennedy of London has been an honorary India Brava since July of last year, when she arrived in Manila trailing hippie robes and veils and long golden hair. Since then her feline green eyes and staccato tones...
“The Pramoedya Affair”: More on the controversial Magsaysay Award
(Editor's note: In response to an article by Linda Bolido entitled "The controversial Magsaysay award" published in our August 28, 1995 issue, Filipino novelist and Magsaysay awardee F. Sionil Jose sent in this reply:
"Below is the rationale for the RM Award. Please print...
