THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE, Issue 4

In addition to aggregating reviews from the internet, THE HALO-HALO REVIEW presents The Mangozine which features new reviews and serves as the online publisher for reviews and other engagements (e.g. book introductions) published in print but not yet available within the internet.  Other features, including author interviews and reader testimonials, also will be presented. The following presents a Table of Contents for Issue 4 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

ISSUE 4

(February 2017)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the fourth issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipin@ literature and authors through reviews and engagements, interviews and other prose. We hope readers, writers and publishers will continue to participate and share information about numerous Filipino authors and the wide variety of their writings. 

The Mangozine's Review Copy information is HERE; you are encouraged to fatten up the list as well as pick some to review! Submission deadline for the fifth issue has been set at Dec. 5, 2017 (though I will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

Eileen Tabios' Editor's Note continues over HERE.

I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley (W.W. Norton, 2001) and The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal by Brian Ascalon Roley (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 2016). Engaged by Vince Gotera

Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry (Moria Books/Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017). Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios

Poetry is: José Garcia Villa's Philosophy of Poetry, edited by Robert L. King (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015). Reviewed by Monica Manolachi

A Series of Un / Natural / Disasters by Cheena Marie Lo (Commune Editions, Oakland, CA, 2016). Reviewed by Kimberly Alidio

Writer in Exile / Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, edited by Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao (University Press of America/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Reviewed by Paulino Lim, Jr. 

BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: Passages from Exile by E. San Juan, Jr. (Philippine Studies Center, Washington D.C., 2007/2017). Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios

WATERMELON NIGHTS by Greg Sarris (First Edition, Hyperion Books, 1998; Penguin, 1999). Engaged by Leny M. Strobel

TRICKSTERS & COSMOPOLITANS by Rei Magosaki--with review focus on Jessica Hagedorn (Fordham University Press, New York, 2016). Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios    

WRITING NAKED by Arnie Mejia (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2016). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

RETURNING A BORROWED TONGUE edited by Nick Carbo (Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 1996). Reviewed by Jessica Gonzalez

LIFEBOAT by Kristine Ong Muslim (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2015). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

The Gilded Age of Kickstarters by Eileen R. Tabios (Dancing Girl Press & Studio, Chicago, 2016). Reviewed by Jim McCrary

Fault Setting by Joel Toledo (University of Philippines Press, 2016). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

The Art of Exporting by Cristina Querrer (Dancing Girl Press & Studio, Chicago, 2011). Reviewed by Chris Mansel 

Histories by Charlie Samuya Veric (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan



II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Kimberly Alidio 

Erin Entrada Kelly

Barbara Jane Reyes



III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
Go HERE to see: 

Sheila Bare on Carlos Bulosan

Michael Simms on Jose Padua

Eileen Tabios on Mg Roberts

Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan on Gemino Abad



IV. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Reviews
SISA'S VENGEANCE: A Radical Interpretation of Jose Rizal by E. San Juan, Jr. (Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut, 2014). Reviewed by Francis C. Macansantos


From Books: Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, Afterwords and Author's Notes

Mg Roberts introduces ALL THINGS LOSE THOUSANDS OF TIMES by Angela Peñaredondo (Inlandia Books, Riverside, CA, 2016)

Jaime An Lim presents the Preface to Peace Mindanao edited by Jaime An Lim (UST Press, Philippines, 2013)  

Jaime An Lim presents the Preface to his The Axolotyl Colony: Stories (UP Press, Philippines, 2016)