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‘IN THE SHADOW OF AMERICA’

Foreign Affairs Secretary Raul S. Manglapus talks on the US military bases, the tensions in Fil-Am relations, and the coming Pacific century. On May 19,...

THE BEST GRAPHIC SHORT STORIES, 1990

When this magazine was being planned I told the organizers of it that I would join in only if assured that the PHILIPPINE GRAPHIC...

They who wrote for the Philippines Graphic

Compiled by Graphic Editorial “Our sense ... of our country is a sustained act of imagination. From that vantage, it can be said that our...

Japan returns to Asia

It is fashionable these days—both in and outside Japan—to argue that Japan is in the process of “re-Asianization.” This view is part of the larger...

MARS RAVELO: MARVELOUS COMICS CREATOR

Mars Ravelo, the creator of Darna, Dyesebel, Bondying, Roberta, Jack and Jill and other fantastic characters that continue to people the pages of various comics, magazines, and entertain millions of Filipinos on the silver screen had very few frustrations in life.

Did He Really Operate On Him?

He made an incision on the patient's stomach, scooped something inside and out came a wriggling, thumb-sized cucumber-like thing!

MANILA, MY MANILA: Season of Advent

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… Rosebud

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...

Discerning the age of innocence

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...

RIZAL AND THE ASIAN RENAISSANCE

An Asian Renaissance must involve cultural rebirth and empowerment, not simply cultural jingoism. In 1886, a young Asian student wrote from Europe the following lines...