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Kerima Polotan Tuvera: 85 Years of a life

In high school, four decades before I became a senior citizen, I turned to three writers as models of good writing: Kerima Polotan, Gilda...

Island landmarks, heritage houses & music-making of a lifetime

Pablo Tariman in his hometown Baras, Catanduanes contemplating the island by the sea. (Photo: Floyd Evangelista Flores) As I turn 74 in December, I like to...

The Fall and Rise of Carlos Bulosan

The life story of Carlos Bulosan—poet, short story writer, novelist and labor union organizer—reads like an epic bestseller

Reclaiming Estrella Alfon: Magnificent Pioneer Woman

It was Estrella who emancipated me, who liberated me…I used to be a very uptight, closed person.—Francisco Arcellana (Fernandez and Alegre, Writers and Their...

Why it’s worth remembering Paeng Salas

The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has been generating interest on the life and times of the late Rafael “Paeng” M. Salas, first...

Nick Joaquin: The twilight years

(With humble thanks to poet and essayist Marra PL Lanot, we commemorate the April 29 death anniversary of National Artist Nick Joaquin—our first Editor-in-Chief...

LOOK! Our April 2021 issue is now available at Lazada!

National Artist Nick Joaquin will always be the quintessential literary giant in the galaxy of poets, fictionists, essayists, and screenwriters in the Philippines. As the...

Father the griffin

A year before he died in 2002, a documentary was made on the life and times of national artist for literature Francisco Arcellana, part...

Snapshot: A moment in time with the country’s premier writers

Group photo taken during a Midweek Christmas party at the ancestral house of Marra Lanot. “Oldies but goldies,” all Gloria and Serafin Lanot’s friends....

Philippines Graphic: 91 years of literature and the news

It all started in 1927 when a Filipino publisher named Ramon Roces put up a weekly magazine that offered considerable pages for Tagalog literary...