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Interview
- The Madwoman in the Garden
An interview with Gilda Cordero-Fernando
- Fictionist, essayist, trailblazing publisher, fashion-show director, and painter Gilda Cordero-Fernando holds forth on publishing, food, her house, her art, and why she abandoned fiction.
- At Table with Gilda
- Editor in chief Clinton Palanca dissects Gilda's fiction and discovers a voice unhampered by stereotypes or age.
- The Giraffe Lady
An interview with Mrs. Gloria F. Rodriguez
- Reviews editor Ubaldo Stecconi interviews the one-woman dynamo behind literary publisher Giraffe Books.
Features
- Breaking into Print
- Poetry editor Ruel S. de Vera talks to four of the country's top literary editors, who share the ins and outs of getting your poetry published.
Politics
- History and histrionics
- American historian Glenn May's blast against the alleged creators of the Bonifacio legend triggers a counterblast from Filipino historians. PN Abinales delves into this tale of two books, looking for the bigger picture.
- Capturing Aguinaldo
The dilemma of popular history
- JB Capino, attempting to produce a documentary on the enigmatic hero, finds a place for nostalgia in an endeavor obsessed with disinterested objectivity.
- Those weren't the days
- The Girondist kicks the canes from under the old curmudgeons who claim that politics used to be a genteel affair.
Frame
Photographs by Alex Baluyut, Emily Cheng, Toto Labrador, Toto Labrador, Lita Puyat, and Juvenal Sansó.
- A Brush with the Camera
- Painter Juvenal Sansó talks with Frame editor Lita Puyat about his second love and how it coexists with his first.
Poetry
- Islands and Icebergs
by Ralph Semino Galán
- The body-on-ice meditations
by Luis Cabalquinto
- Waiting for an FX taxi
by Marne Kilates
- Kaarawan '97
by Luli M. Arroyo
- Black brother breathes into his saxophone
by Lourd Ernest de Veyra
- Eiseley at the Olympics
by Randy M. Bustamante
- Lahar on my mind
by Mike Maniquiz
- Night with José
by Luis Cabalquinto
- Vacare Deo
by Randy M. Bustamante
- Words like spilled milk
by Justine U. Camacho
Fiction
Balikbayan
by Miguel Syjuco
Lessons
by Scott Garceau
Palanca Awards Section
On Presidential Portraits
by Manuel L. Quezon III
Essays
- Conical hats and Coca-cola
- Features editor Kristine D. Fonacier meanders through Vietnam, and in between dining with one-dimensional cutlery and torturing the locals with avant-garde pop music, finds a people with stories to tell.
- The Claiming of Alexandria
- Justine Camacho weaves scattered notes and jottings into a haunting reverie on her late mother and the tenacious power of memory.
Requiem
Living and Dying as a Writer
Rogelio Sicat (1940-1997)
by Lilia Quindoza-Santiago
Flowers for Maneng
Manuel Viray (1917-1997)
by Doreen G. Fernandez
Reviews
- Styled to order
by Clinton Palanca
- Chicken feed
by Ubaldo Stecconi
- Off the mark
by Manuel L. Quezon III
- Oceans of time
by Danton Remoto
Backspace
Hell's Kitchen
by Carmen Guerrero Nakpil
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