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TRIBUTE: Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, National Artist for Literature by Alma Anonas-Carpio
Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76, and had worked as a professor of literature at De La Salle University, Manila, eventually being named Professor Emeritus...
Woman on the verge of a Twitter breakdown by Marie Yuvienco
To those who think that they have heard the last of Kris Aquino now that her brother is no longer President, they can now relieve themselves. She’s back. Not just with plain vengeance, but with a gadget I presume to be a smartphone which...
Hiroshima’s Legacy of Peace (Part 1) by Jose Antonio Custodio
I. The Bombing
On the early morning of August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Force coaxed his heavily laden B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay to the air, enroute to the city of Hiroshima 1,569...
The princess and the corn
by Marie Yuvienco
There’s this legal koan relating to free speech cases that’s supposed to stump first-year students of constitutional law. Why it’s necessary to stump first-year law students as they tend to be stupid anyways has never been satisfactorily explained, but the question...
Just what the doctor proscribed
by Marie Yuvienco
The judge, rather. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from complying therewith is the bedrock of practically all legal systems of civilized societies. Most people operate in a gray zone of ignorance which generally serves them just fine but because...
Writing in the Age of Tokhang: Message to the Fellows of the recently-concluded 57th U.P. National Writers Workshop for Mid-Career Authors
by Rolando B. Tolentino
*Photos used with permission from Likhaan: University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. Vlad Gonzales is this year's director of the 2018 UPNWW
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