THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE--ISSUE 15

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

Submission deadline for the 16th issue has been set at Nov. 15, 2023 (though we will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

ISSUE 15

(May  2023)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 15th 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

When the Hibiscus Falls by M. Evelina Galang (Coffee House Press, 2023)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

The Mythology Class: Where Philippine Legends Become Reality by Arnold Arre (Tuttle Publishing, 2022)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight by Jim Pascual Agustin (Gaudy Boy LLC / Singapore Unbound, New York, 2023)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Filipinx: Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora by Angela Dimayuga and Ligaya Mishan (Abrams, 2021)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

Trese vol. 1:  Murder on Balete Drive (Issues 1-4) by Budgette Tan and KaJo Baldisimo (Ablaze, 2020)

Reviewed by Eric Smith

The Mountain That Grew by Alfred A. Yuson with art/design by Marcel Antonio and Ilana Antonio (San Anselmo Publications, Philippines, 2022)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Boy Wander: A Coming of Age Memoir by Jobert E. Abueva (Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLC, 2023)

Reviewed by Maileen Hamto

Go HERE for Flash reviews of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines by Vicente L. Rafael (ADMU Press, 2005); Sky Blue After the Rain: Selected Stories and Tales by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo (University of the Philippines Press, 2005); The Light in One’s Blood: Select Poems, 1973-2020 by Gemino H. Abad (University of the Philippines Press, 2021); Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture by Doreen Fernandez (Anvil, 2020); All the Conspirators by Carlos Bulosan (Anvil, 2001); and MOTHERLESS TONGUES: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation by Vicente L. Rafael (ADMU Press, 2016).

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Lara Stapleton: The Ruin of Everything

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

Eileen Tabios on Ina Cariño

Eileen Tabios on Hari Alluri

Elizabeth Ann Quirino on Claude Tayag, Michaela Fenix, and Ige Ramos

Leny Strobel on Gilda Cordero-Fernando

Eric Smith on Paolo Chikiamco and Mervin Alonzo

Eileen Tabios on Monica Macansantos

Leny Strobel on Patrick Rosal

Eileen Tabios on Patricia Manuel Go

IV.  FEATURES

"Meeting Cecilia Brainard and Her Books" (with a nod to Veronica Montes' fictions) by Rachielle Ragasa Shuffler

"Indigenous Futurism and DOVELION by Eileen R. Tabios" by Denise Low

"A Postmortem of Ang Maghuhurno" by Cymbeline Villamin

V. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE/REPRINTS

Introduction to Ang Maghuhurno by Cymbeline R. Villamin (8Letters Bookstore and Publishing, Philippines, 2023) by Joi Barrios

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