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Tale of an Enchanted book

Philippines Graphic - April 9, 2019

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Portrait of the journalist as poet

Philippines Graphic - February 15, 2019

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Town and Country from the Pen of Three Women

Philippines Graphic - February 12, 2019

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South Africa must be good for the soul

Philippines Graphic - February 2, 2019

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Haunting your feels: Celestine Trinidad’s ‘Ghost of a Feeling’

Philippines Graphic - January 25, 2019

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Stories from our myths

Philippines Graphic - January 20, 2019 0

As a child, I cut classes to go marinate in the library. There I got to delve into ancient cultures and the stories and...

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Weaving spirit into poetry: Merlie Alunan’s ‘Running With Ghosts’

Philippines Graphic - January 13, 2019 1

“I am about to sit down on the bench under the papaya tree when the shaking begins. It lasts for what seems like the...

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Speaking of tyranny: Manuel C. Lahoz’s ‘Of Tyrants and Martyrs”

Philippines Graphic - December 28, 2018 0

Reading Manuel C. Lahoz’s political memoir took me back to some of my earliest bad memories. I was born in 1972, just a bit...

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National Hero, moving forward: Launching Rizal +

Philippines Graphic - December 9, 2018 0

Before he was shot dead at dawn on Bagumbayan Field, Dr. Jose Rizal was a doctor—and he was a writer. Before all this, he...

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Expanding the center from Kilometer Zero

Philippines Graphic - December 1, 2018 0

Stories would always come from something, from someone; it is an impossibility to just appear on a piece of paper, on a laptop screen,...

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Lushly a biography Alfred A. Yuson’s “Lineage, Vision, Empire: Don Francisco ‘Paquito’ Ortigas, Jr.”

Philippines Graphic - November 10, 2018 0

One would think that lush storytelling and adroit turns of witty phrase belong in fiction rather than in the creative non-fiction required to tell...

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A writer in search of an author

Philippines Graphic - October 28, 2018 0

“Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did...

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KATAGA1: Dulce et Utile

Philippines Graphic - October 14, 2018 0

It appears to be an endless debate whether art should be for art’s sake or for social transformation. Interestingly, “Kataga,” in their first book...

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Spitting Fire and Farce: Lourd De Veyra’s Little Book of Speeches

Philippines Graphic - September 29, 2018 0

Voltaire said,“Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to this world.” What he might have failed to...

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The other side of the 2nd World War

Philippines Graphic - September 2, 2018 0

Mauro Gia Samonte’s “Dr. Jose P. Laurel: Nation above self—a biography” There are two ways of viewing this book. One may dismiss it as an...

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Discernments: A look from the eyes of a Critic—and why you should be

Philippines Graphic - August 25, 2018 0

The status quo will always be questioned, challenged, and criticized, in the name of a higher state of being, in the name of surpassing...

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Elmer Ordoñez’ “Father’s Doppelganger”: Old friends & memories of war on a rainy afternoon

Philippines Graphic - August 19, 2018 0

Photos courtesy of Arkibong Bayan, Dr. Elmer Ordoñez, and Ishmael Ordoñez Maybe, it is his favorite—dark pants and that green-ochre polo shirt with vertical black...

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Tale of an Enchanted book

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Town and Country from the Pen of Three Women

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