THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine--Issue 10

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

ISSUE 10

(December 2020)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 10th issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-PilipinZ literature and art and authors/artists through reviews and engagements, interviews and other prose. We hope readers, writers, artists, and publishers will continue to participate and share information about numerous Filipino authors and the wide variety of their writings. 

Submission deadline for the 11th issue has been set at April 15, 2021 (though I will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

MARCELINA: a meditation on the murder of Cecilia "Celing" Navarro by Jean Vengua (Paloma Press, 2020)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol (1) (SoHo Press, 2018)
Engaged by Michael Caylo Baradi 

 

INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol (2) (SoHo Press, 2018)
Reviewed by Joanna Anabo

PAGPAG: The Dictator's Aftermath in the Diaspora by Eileen R. Tabios (Paloma Press, 2020)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

The Filipino Cookbook by Miki Garcia and Luca Invernizzi Tettoni (Tuttle Publishing, 2010)

Engaged by Jack Villanueva

THE CONQUERED SITS AT THE BUS STOP, WAITING by Veronica Montes (1) (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)

Reviewed by Melinda Luisa de Jesus

THE CONQUERED SITS AT THE BUS STOP, WAITING by Veronica Montes (2) (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) 

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Woman With Horns & Other Stories and Acapulco at Sunset and Other Stories, both by Cecilia Brainard (U.S. Edition, Philippine American Literary House, 2020; Philippine Edition, Anvil, 1995)

Reviewed by Herminia Menez Coben

Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions, 2020)
Reviewed by Ella Decastro Baron

OF COLOR: POETS' WAYS OF MAKING edited by Amanda Galvan Huynh & Luisa A. Igloria (1)(The Operating System, 2019)

Reviewed by Karen Llagas

OF COLOR: POETS' WAYS OF MAKING edited by Amanda Galvan Huynh & Luisa A. Igloria (2) (The Operating System, 2019)

Reviewed by Niccolo Rocamora Vitug

A Kinder Way: Poems by Niccolo Rocamora Vitug (Self-published, 2020); REQUIEM: Poems by Rodrigo Dela Pena, Jr., with illustrations by Josephine Roxanne Perez (self-published, 2015); and Humanity in Predicaments by Hans Lawrence V. Malgapu (self-published, 2020)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

 

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Kimberly Alidio / : once teeth bones coral : and why letter ellipses

Veronica Montes / The Conquered Sits on the Bus Stop, Waiting
Jean Vengua / Marcelina: a meditation on the murder of Cecilia “Celing” Navarro

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

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Eileen Tabios on Luisa A. Igloria

Cynthia T. Buiza on Angela Manalang Gloria
Mary Zambales on #romanceclass, Six de los Reyes, Brigitte Bautista, and K.S. Villoso

Karen Llagas on Angela Narciso Torres

Glynda T. Velasco on Eileen R. Tabios

 

IV. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

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

Rene Navarro presents Introduction to Ascension and Return: Poetry of a Village Daoist by Rene J. Navarro (Tambuli Media, 2020)

 

Shiju Pallithazheth presents Foreword to Scentsibility edited by Ayo Gutierrez and Edentu Oroso (GMGA Publishing and Pixel and Feather Printing & Digital Services, 2020)