The Halo-Halo Review: THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE -- Issue 14

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

Submission deadline for the 15th issue has been set at May 31, 2023 (though we will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

ISSUE 14

(December 2022)

Editor's Note: Welcome to the 14th 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.

I. NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

Thorn Grass by Luis H. Francia (UP Press, 2021)

Reviewed by Tess Crescini

The Future Is A Country I Do Not Live In by Cynthia Buiza (Paloma Press, 2022)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Dancing Between Bamboo Poles by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor (Village Books, 2019)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Hotel Pacoima by Michael Caylo-Baradi (Kelsay Books, 2021)

Reviewed by Harold Legaspi

KAPWA'S NOVELS by Eileen R. Tabios (Booksby Press, Ohio, 2022)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

The Kindness of Birds by Merlinda Bobis (Spinifex Press, Australia, 2021)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

FLASH REVIEWS of The Love at a Certain Age by Charlie Samuya Veric (UP Press, 2021); Tangere by Rodrigo Dela Peña Jr. (2021, UP Press); Memory's Mercy by Myrna Peña-Reyes (UP Press, 2014); All Our Nameable Days by Gémino Abad (UP Press, 2013); When Bridges Are Down, Mountains Too Far by Gémino Abad (UP Press, 2020); No Country by Charlie Samuya Veric (UP Press, 2021); Tilt Me and I Bend by Ned Parfan (UP Press, 2017); A Wanderer in the Night of the World: The Poems of NVM Gonzalez (UP Press, 2015); Our Scene So Fair by Gemino Abad (UP Press, 2008)

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Cynthia Buiza: The Future Is a Country I Do Not Live in

Jose Elvin Bueno: Sindicato

III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
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Vina Orden on Gina Apostol

Elizabeth Ann Quirino on Malaka Gharib

IV. FEATURES

"Venancio 'V.C.' Igarta and Clyfford Still" by Eileen Tabios

“Intervention From Inside the ‘Belly of the Beast’”—Dr. Rainer Werning Interviews E. San Juan, Jr.

"Jenifer K Wofford's Charcoal Drawings for 'MacArthur Nurses'" by Eileen Tabios

V. EDITORIAL