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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 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...
THE STORY-TELLING SPECIES
Reflections on "narrative—the only art that exists in all human cultures."
Human supremacy may be the product of technology, but technology is, in turn, the product of man's fancy, for the story of mankind is the story of Story itself. It was not the...
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...
PARCH
Between usa wildernessof no-treesdevoid of riversbare as the GobiHere windshowl turned loosefrom all directionsThey bury medeep quick as they leapupon mefilling my throat to the brimwith their hoardof whirling sandMy nostrils shornof breath Wordsturn into dunesMy eyestoo blinded to pictureyour newly shaven faceYour...
“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...
