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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...

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!

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...

Of ‘balimbing’ and coup

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

The Making of the U-Belt

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...

LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE OF PHILIPPINE WRITING

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.

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...