Category: Issue 40 “Writing the Philippines”
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[Header image, entitled “Kasuy”, is by Ricardo M. de Ungria.] File by genre file, they pulled into the computer station almost relentlessly. It was like being hemmed in skin to skin inside an MRT coach during the morning rush hour,…
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{Written by Carolyn Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.}ย {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Alma Cruz Miclat, Soul Searchers and Dreamers: Artists’ Profiles, Maningning Miclat Art Foundation and Erehwon Centre for the…
![[Review] Looking for Idealism: Alam Cruz Miclat’s Soul Searchers and Dreamers](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/soul_and_searchers_artist_profiles_alma_cruz_miclat-4_1024x1024.jpg?w=590)
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{Written by Janice Tsang, this review is part of Issue 40 (July 2018) of Cha.}ย {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Monette Bichsel, Lenny Kaye Bugayong and Lily C. Fen (editors), Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration…
![[Review] Bending Without Breaking: Thirteen Women’s Stories of Migration and Resilience](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bending.png?w=266)
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{Written by Karlo Antonio Galay David, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}ย {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Christine Godinez-Ortega (editor), Mindanao Harvest 3: An Anthology of Retold Tales of Mindanao, National Commission for…
![[REVIEW] “Tales Told and Retold: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ก 3” by Karlo Antonio Galay David](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mindanao-harvest-21.jpg?w=576)
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{Written by Chloe Leung, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}ย {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Marguerite Alcazaren de Leon, People in Panic, Cor Asia, 2015. 115 pgs. “I found a floating head in…
![[REVIEW] “What The Head?: Marguerite de Leon’s ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐” by Chloe Leung](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/panic.jpeg?w=620)
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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.…
![[REVIEW] “Escape to the Periphery: Johanna Michelle Lim’s ๐โ๐๐ก ๐ท๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ” by Goh Cheng Fai Zach](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/distance.png?w=359)
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{Written by Natalia Delazari, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}ย {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…
![[Review] A Literary Archipelago: Angelo R. Lacuesta’s Coral Cove](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/coral-cove.jpg?w=583)
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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…
![[REVIEW] “Francis C. Macansantos: Poet of Light” by Alfred A. Yuson](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/snail-fever1.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Sandro Lau, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}ย {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…
![[Review] David R. Brubaker’s Liberace’s Filipino Cousin](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/liberaces-filipino-cousin.jpeg?w=750)
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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…
![[REVIEW] “Misreading Usual Catachresis: Charlie Samuya Veric’s ๐ป๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ” by Christian Benitez](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/histories.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Mackenzie, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}ย {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…
![[Review] Witnesses to Haiyan: Tim Tomlinson’s Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tomlinson.jpg?w=574)
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{Written by Jason G. Coe, this review is part of Issue 40 (June/July 2018) of Cha.}ย {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…
![[Review] Systems of Identification: Christopher B. Patterson’s Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/transitive.png?w=864)
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We are happy to announce that in June 2018ย Chaย will be publishing a special โWriting the Philippinesโ issue. Submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and art are accepted between 1 January 2018 and 31 March 2018. If you have somethingย originalย to say…
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We are currently looking for books on or about the Philippines to review in the “Writing the Philippines” edition of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, scheduled for publication in June 2018. The guest editors of the issue areย Ricardo M. de…
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