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{Written by Goh Cheng Fai Zach, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Johanna Michelle Lim, What Distance Tells Us: Travel Essays about the Philippines, Bathalad, 2018. 166 pgs.…
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{Written by Natalia Delazari, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Angelo R. Lacuesta, Coral Cove and Other Stories, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2017. 155 pgs. With…
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Editors: ◉ Tammy Lai-Ming Ho (Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University) ◉ Eddie Tay (Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong) Creative writing is a solitary affair insofar as it involves putting words on the page. On the other hand, with…
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///// The Cha Writing Workshop Series: We plan to hold one to two writing workshops every month, for local school children (all levels), as well as economically and socially disadvantaged groups. If you’d like to suggest an idea, please contact the…
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{Written by Alfred A. Yuson, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Francis C. Macansantos, Snail Fever, University of the Philippines Press, 2016. 109 pgs. I always hark back…
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{Written by Sandro Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} David R. Brubaker, Liberace’s Filipino Cousin, ThingsAsian Press, 2016. 160 pgs. In his anthology Liberace’s Filipino Cousin, David…
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{Written by Christian Benitez, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Charlie Samuya Veric, Histories, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015. 109 pgs. In Charlie Veric’s collection Histories catastrophe…
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Tim Tomlinson, Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, Finishing Line Press, 2015. In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, known…
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Thank you for Cha‘s co-editor Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s invitation to the Cha Reading Series event “Sayang Singapura” (Thursday 3 May 2018), which featured three Cha contributors originally from Singapore—Kum Hoon Ng, Eddie Tay (also Cha‘s Reviews Editor) and Lian-Hee Wee. It…
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{Written by Jason G. Coe, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christopher B. Patterson, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific, Rutgers University Press, 2018. 256 pgs. Collective…
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