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The Philippines Graphic on the wings of history

Over time, the images fade; the pages turning brown with age. Pile after pile of magazines gather dust in a narrow stockroom, its load...

Nick Joaquin Literary Awards Roster of Fiction Winners

  First Prize                                    A TROPICAL WINTER’S TALE  (Oct. 29, 1990) By Charlson Ong    Second Prize                                    THE WEEK OF THE WHALES  (Nov. 12, 1990)                     By...

NJLA 2017 winners chosen

The winners of the 2017 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards have been selected by the contest’s panel of judges, Alfred Yuson (panel chair), Susan Lara...

A preview NJLA 2017: The Nick Joaquin Centennial

September is a special time for literature in the Philippines, when the Philippines Graphic holds its annual Nick Joaquin Literary Awards (NJLA). As the country’s...

History, Journalism and the Nation-Machine in Joel Pablo Salud’s Blood Republic

  The non-fiction genre in the Philippines has always been a point of contention for many critics because it has been literally dominated by “pop”...

The War After

Sandra Damon a veteran television reporter of an international news network based in New York looks out the window of the plane about to...

Time for Rest

Hi, Edson! Sorry for the late reply. I only just saw your message. I accept your challenge! Your request for a ghost story to...

Astronomy

We peer furtively at smiles, bent wrists and it smacks of mortality. We imagine—nebulae in the irises of a stranger, like they bear stories waiting for the optimum...

Silang

A contingent of armed men escorts her back to her cell. She is tightly bound, reeking of gunpowder and death, her bloodied limbs protesting...

Giving Lives

Josefina found the kitten under one of the rose bushes one Sunday morning, cowering from the black Labrador that belonged to their next door...