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BUILDING A SITE Manila took a long time to make. What is now its ground used to be sea. The sea reached as far as...

because a wounded rosebudtaunts the harvest moonand a failed moonbeamlimps among the dewdropswaltzing on the evening grassmy soulis searedin the embersof a brown passion Written...

It was probably the most unsettling and shocking piece of news that broke during that second week of October. After eating his share of hotdog...

It is balimbing season once again. Balimbing is a fruit with many sharp sides, so that it has been popularly used to describe agile...

By 4 p.m. the clouds had dispersed and the sun shone over Manila Bay. This looked like a good omen on the historic birth...

U-Belt means Manila’s collegiate zone, an area extending from Calle Arlegui in Quiapo to Governor Forbes in Sampaloc, bounded in the west by Quezon...

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 signposts to indicate trends, and these signposts do not give very coherent directions.

Questions and reflections in a "writing experiment" dealing with language, time, memory, birth, mortality and other human concerns. Only a writing experiment. Choose at...

Now and in the foreseeable future, all that the Filipino doing literature should aim for is to create in the context of the multicultural...

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...