Alex Tizon’s Heartbreak

Alex Tizon’s Heartbreak

What made Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Tizon, author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self and Invisible People: People on the Margins, tick?

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A Filipino Christmas in the Sixties

A Filipino Christmas in the Sixties

All Filipino Christmases may seem the same, but each family has its own traditions.

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Remembering the Ateneo’s ‘Immortals’

Remembering the Ateneo’s ‘Immortals’

The Philippines lost “immortal” intellectuals Bienvenido Lumbera, Eric Torres, and Fr. Roque Ferriols S.J. during the pandemic.

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My Years on the Brink

My Years on the Brink

A Filipino foreign service officer recalls his time with the United Nations in the tumultuous Cold War ‘80s.

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Philippine Echoes of Spain’s Civil War

Philippine Echoes of Spain’s Civil War

The Spanish Civil War mattered to the Philippines then, and it does now.

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Pinoy Oldies But Goodies with a Cosmopolitan Touch

Pinoy Oldies But Goodies with a Cosmopolitan Touch

Fil-Canadian bassist Chris Trinidad blends Filipino classics with Latin and jazz flavors.

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Philippines and Guam: Pacific Cousins at a Crossroads of History

Philippines and Guam: Pacific Cousins at a Crossroads of History

Find out what links Guam to the Philippines.

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Songs Her Father Taught Her

Songs Her Father Taught Her

A master Philippine scriptwriter and great storyteller at age 90 recalls the creation of the iconic film “Minsa’y Isang Gamugamo” (There Once Was a Moth) as well as other highlights of her writing life.

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Freedom From Want: The Ghost of Carlos Bulosan

Freedom From Want: The Ghost of Carlos Bulosan

See what Carlos Bulosan wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, which commissioned him to write an essay on one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms.”

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333 Years in the Convent

333 Years in the Convent

Brief notes on the 500th anniversary of the Philippine-Spanish encounter.

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