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THE PETRON SELLOUT

The sale of the national oil company to a foreign corporation betrays the national interest, endangers the country’s security, and sticks of graft and...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

WEARING BLACK ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY

jet-blackmy get-up today, from the upperto the underwear:black shirt, the color of mourningon this loveliest of mornings.black denims, the hue of rue.black shoes and...

A MATTER OF CHOICE

1. A Gift of UnlifeWhat is sad, dear life-that-never-is,is you will never have knownthe unreasoning logic of this gift:this one of never having to...

Waterdragon: A Tale of the Maranao Weaver-Woman

For her gnarled fingers, it was never a questionof mere ornamentation,but of a secret syllabary,a language of ancient strengththat burned beyond tongues.Frome where her...

BRIEF ANGEL

You are oneTo slip through the nightsLike a gauze.You come to meThinly wrappingAround my body.You are hereYet not here.I riseWith every drawing of breathLike...