THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE, Issue 5

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 5 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

ISSUE 5

(December 2017)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the fifth issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-Pilipinx 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 sixth issue has been set at June 1, 2018 (though I will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

Go HERE to continue the Editor's Note.

I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

Magdalena by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (University of Santo Tomas, 2016)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

Lolas’ House: Filipino Women Living With War by M. Evelina Galang (Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2017)
Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios

Tattered Boat by Luis H. Francia (University of the Philippines Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

After the Sunstone by Michellan Sarile-Alagao (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)

Reviewed by Christine Fojas 

To Be An Empire Is To Burn! by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Books' Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith

Wings of Smoke by Jim Pascual Agustin (The Onslaught Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

Fictionary: New and Award-Winning Stories by Jenny Ortuoste (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2016)

Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios

The Mango Bride by Marivi Blanco (Penguin Random House, New York, 2013)
Reviewed by Justine Villanueva

SILK EGG: Collected Novels (2009-2009) by Eileen R. Tabios (Shearsman Books, Bristol, U.K., 2011)
Reviewed by Jonel Abellanosa

The Highest Hiding Place by Lawrence Ypil (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2009)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime's Anti-Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Newton-le-Willows, U.K., 2017)
Reviewed by Nikki Dudley

Navel n. the central point of a place by Rica Bolipata-Santos (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2016). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Renee Macalino Rutledge

Angela Peñaredondo



III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
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Leny M. Strobel on Mia Alvar

Eileen Tabios on José Garcia Villa

Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan on Angelo Suarez

Eileen Tabios on Barbara Jane Reyes




IV. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

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

Alfred A. Yuson introduces BLOODLUST: Philippine Protest Poetry (From Marcos to Duterte), edited by Gemino H. Abad and Alfred A. Yuson (Reyes Publishing, Philippines, 2017)

Avotcja introduces UNSENT LETTERS: SELECTED POEMS by Glynda Tejada Velasco  (Vallejo Phoenix Rising Collective Press, Vallejo, CA, 2003)