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Welcome to PALH Book Reviews, a site owned by Philippine American Literary House. PALH Book Reviews focus on Philippine and Philippine American books of poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction. Current releases as well as older works that continue to resonate will be considered. We'll be posting more reviews. Do visit again. Click here for Book Review Guidelines.

 

FICTION

• Noel Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift, review by Publishers Weekly

• Peter Bacho's Cebu, review by Publishers Weekly

• Peter Bacho's Dark Blue Suit and Other Stories, review by Publishers Weekly

• Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Magdalena, review by World Literature Today

• Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, review by Publishers Weekly

• M. Evelina Galang's Her Wild American Self, review by Publishers Weekly

• Tess Uriza Holhe's When Elephants Dance , review by Publishers Weekly

• Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, review by Publishers Weekly

• Jessica Hagedorn's The Gangster of Love, review by Publishers Weekly

• Stevan Javellana's Without seeing the Dawn, review by Alberto Florentino

• F. Sionil Jose's Don Vicente, review by Publishers Weekly

• F. Sionil Jose's The Samsons: Pretenders and Mass, review by Publishers Weekly

• Paulino Lim Jr.'s Sparrows Don't sing in the Philippines, review by World Literature Today

• Reine Arcache Melvin's A Normal Life and Other Stories, review by Gregorio C. Brilliantes

• Ninotchka Rosca's Twice Blessed, review by Publishers Weekly

• Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country, review by Publishers Weekly

• Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son, review by Publishers Weekly

• Nadine Sarreal's Exactly Here, Exactly Now, review by Dr. Howard S. Collins

• Linda Ty-Casper's DreamEden, review by World Literature Today

• Marianne Villanueva's Ginseng and Other Tales From Manila, review by Publishers Weekly

 

•  The Centennial Literary Prize Winners:  Gamalinda (My Sad Republic), Ong (An Embarrassment of Riches), & Yuson (Voyeurs and Savages), review by Vicente G. Groyon, III, published in Ideya

 

POETRY

• Vince Gotera's Dragonfly, review by Small Press Review

• Eugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, review by Library Journal

• Jessica Hagedorn's Danger and Beauty, review by Publishers Weekly

• Eileen Tabios's Empty Flagpole

• Jose Garcia Villa's The Anchored Angel, review by Booklist

• Fatima Lim Wilson's Crossing the Snow Bridge, review by The Antioch Review

 

ANTHOLOGIES

• Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Fiction by Filipinos in America, review by World Literature Today

• Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults, review by Booklist

• Nick Carbo's Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino-American Poetry, review by World Literature Today

• Nick Carbo & Eileen Tabios's Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers, review by Library Journal

• Noelle De Jesus's Fast Food Fiction, review by Lifestyle Feature, Philippine Star

• Luis Francia & Eric Gamalinda's Flippin': Filipinos on America, review by World Literature Today

 

NONFICTION

• Jose Ma. Bonifacio Escoda's Warsaw of Asia: The Rape of Manila, review by Miguel A. Bernad
• Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz's Filipino Women Writers in English, Their Storis: 1905-2002, review by Susan Evangelista, Philippine Studies
• Edmundo Litton and Shane Martin, Equity, Advocacy, and Diversity, published by National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)

 

 

RECENT RELEASES:

• Reading the West/Writing the East, E. San Juan, Jr., Peter Lang Publishing, 1992,
  ISBN 0-824-1841-2
• The Rush of the River, Lilia Hernandez Chung, Vantage Press, 2004, ISBN 0533147069
• Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian America Images, ed. M. Evelina Galang, published by Coffee House Press, 2003, ISBN: 1566891418
• AIDS: What the Discovers of HIV Never Admitted , Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D., published by New Centry Press, 2003, ISBN: 1890035297
• GREAT MEN AND GREAT WOMEN OF ASIA & YOUNG PENS FOR YOUNG MINDS, co-published by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) and ANVIL Publishing Inc. 2003
• The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, Dean Francis Alfar, Anvil, 2007
• The Midnight Chase: a Novel, Carlo Bondoc, Vantage 2007, ISBN 978-0-533-15615-3
• Balikbayang Mahal: Passages From Exile, E. San Juan, Jr., Lulu.com, Morrisville, N.C., 2007

   

 

 

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