Ang Mga Iniiwan ng Tubig ni Jason Tabiñas
Pag-ani ng Hiwaga sa Poot at Pait ng Sariling Lupa (Review Author: Roy Rene S. Cagalingan)
- September 2020 | Diwatahan.com | https://diwatahan.com/2020/09/06/pag-ani-ng-hiwaga-sa-poot-at-pait-ng-sariling-lupa/
A Natural History of Empire by Dominic Sy
Review– A Natural History of Empire: Stories (Review Author: Christoffer Mitch C. Cerda)
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September 2021 | Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia | https://kyotoreview.org/issue-31/review-a-natural-history-of-empire-stories/
A Pig Was Once Killed In Our Garage by Martin Villanueva
Martin Villanueva’s ‘A Pig Was Once Killed In Our Garage’ is an elegiac catalogue that interrogates the essay (Review Author: Catherine Orda)
- September 2022 | Rappler | https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/literature/review-martin-villanueva-a-pig-was-once-killed-in-our-garage/
Armor by John Bengan
Holiday Reads (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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December 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/314290470/holiday-reads.html
Ascending the Fourth Mountain: A Personal Account of the Marcos Years by Maria Virginia Yap Morales
A SOJOURNER’S VIEW: ‘Ascending the Fourth Mountain’: a must-read book written by a Pinay about Filipino women revolutionaries (Review Author: Karl M. Gaspar CSSR)
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April 2021 | Mindanews | https://www.mindanews.com/mindaviews/2021/04/a-sojourners-view-ascending-the-fourth-mountain-a-must-read-book-written-by-a-pinay-about-filipino-women-revolutionaries/
The Party's Over (Review Author: Patricio N. Abinales)
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May 2021 | Positively Filipino | http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/the-partys-over
Asian Place, Filipino Nation by Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
Review of Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912 by Nicole Cuunjieng Aboitiz (Review Author: Luis Zuriel P. Domingo)
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March 2022 | Academia.edu | https://www.academia.edu/48863899/Review_of_Asian_Place_Filipino_Nation_A_Global_Intellectual_History_of_the_Philippine_Revolution_1887_1912_by_Nicole_Cuunjieng_Aboitiz
Between Celebrations and Critique: Snapshots from 500 Years of Philippine Christianity by Jose Mario Francisco, SJ
Ateneo Press’ new titles on Philippine heritage (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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May 2 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/lifestyle-columns/no-shelf-control/314231895/ateneo-press-new-titles-on-philippine-heritage.html
Biyaheng Pinoy: A Mindanao Travelogue by Edilberto N. Alegre
To travel and to learn (Review Author: Michelle Ann P. Soliman)
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March 2021 | BusinessWorld | https://www.bworldonline.com/to-travel-and-to-learn/
The Discursivities in Edilberto Alegre’s Biyaheng Pinoy: A Mindanao Travelogue (Commentary Author: Jay Jomar F. Quintos)
- May 2021 | Mindanao Times | https://mindanaotimes.com.ph/2021/05/26/commentary-the-discursivities-in-edilberto-alegres-biyaheng-pinoy-a-mindanao-travelogue/
Broken Islands by Criselda Yabes
‘Tiempo Muerto,’ ‘Broken Islands’ highlight women’s lives (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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November 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/lifestyle-columns/no-shelf-control/314275723/tiempo-muerto-broken-islands-highlight-womens-lives.html
Campaigns of Knowledge: US Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan by Malini Johar Schueller
Malini Johar Schueller’s Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan (Review Author: Stewart A. Young)
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April 2022 | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1qSg4S_y1nmB88wmHJFkQESd62YA8...
Children of the Postcolony: Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1946-1972 by Charlie Samuya Veric
Charlie Samuya Veric’s Children of the Postcolony: Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization, 1946–1972 (Review Author: Fr. Antonio B. de Castro, SJ)
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June 2022 | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1qSg4S_y1nmB88wmHJFkQESd62YA8...
City Stories by Angelo R. Lacuesta
Out of the Blue (Review Author: Noelle Q. de Jesus)
- March 2020 | Asian Books Blog | http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2020/03/two-out-of-blue-lacuesta-zafra.html
Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth-Century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896 by Stephanie Coo
IQAS book review (Review Author: Sarah Steinbock-Pratt )
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June 2022 | International Quarterly for Asian Studies | https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/19013
In ‘Clothing the Colony,’ Stephanie Coo weaves the fabric of history in the sartorial Filipino (Review Author: Addie Pobre)
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September 2022 | Rappler | https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/literature/book-review-clothing-the-colony-by-stephanie-coo/
College Boy by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
On the brink of the indelicate (Review Author: Alfred A. Yuson)
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November 2021 | Philippine Star | https://www.philstar.com/arts-and-culture/2021/11/15/2141258/brink-indelicate/amp/
The poetry of ‘womanning’ up (Review Author: Alma Anonas-Carpio)
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November 2021 | Philippine Daily Inquirer | https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/391412/the-poetry-of-womanning-up/
Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta on her new book: ‘This comes from a place of real conviction’ (Interview by ANC)
- November 2021 | ANC | https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/books/11/26/21/mookie-lacuestas-new-poems-tackle-toxic-masculinity
Counterrevolution by Walden Bello
Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right, written by Walden Bello (Review Author: Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem)
- November 2020 | Philippine Political Science Journal | https://brill.com/view/journals/ppsj/41/1-2/article-p199_10.xml
Endangered Splendor: Manila’s Architectural Heritage 1571-1960 (Volume 1): The Center by Fernando Zialcita and Erik Akpedonu
Humanizing Manila (Review Author: Vanessa P. Bicomong)
- September 2021 | Philippine Daily Inquirer | https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/388771/humanizing-manila/
Manila's architectural heritage (Review Author: Jorge Mojarro)
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March 2022 | The Manila Times | https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/03/15/opinion/columns/manilas-architectural-heritage/1836316
Splendors of old Manila (Review Author: Edgar Allan M. Sembrano)
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May 2022 | The Daily Tribune | https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2022/05/10/splendors-of-old-manila/
Ateneo Press’ new titles on Philippine heritage (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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May 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/lifestyle-columns/no-shelf-control/314231895/ateneo-press-new-titles-on-philippine-heritage.html
Endangered Splendor: Manila’s Architectural Heritage, 1571–1960, vol. 1: The Center (Review Author: Geoffrey Rhoel C. Cruz)
- October 2022 | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1qSg4S_y1nmB88wmHJFkQESd62YA8...
Hindi Nangyari Dahil Wala sa Social Media na inedit nila Rolando B. Tolentino, Vladimeir B. Gonzales, at Laurence Marvin S. Castillo
Question Everything | Ligalig at social media (Review Author: Mong Palatino)
- November 2021 | Bulatlat: Journalism for the People | https://www.bulatlat.com/2021/11/27/question-everything-ligalig-at-social-media/
Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in the Asia-Pacific edited by Nick de Ocampo
Visions from the archives (Review Author: Edgar Allan M. Sembrano)
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September 2022 | Daily Tribune | https://tribune.net.ph/2022/09/06/visions-from-the-archives/
Kites in the Night by Blaise Campo Gacoscos
Holiday Reads (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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December 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/314290470/holiday-reads.html
Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015 by Nina Trige Andersen
Book Review on Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (Review Author: Labor and Working-Class History Association)
- January 2021 | Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 18, Issue 1 | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1qSg4S_y1nmB88wmHJFkQESd62YA8...
Mabuting Loob Atsuko Nambu: A Filipino Memory by Amadio Arboleda
The Japanese charmer who helped Filipinos move on from the war (Review Author: Howie Severino)
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September 2022 | GMA News | https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/artandculture/844567/the-japanese-charmer-who-helped-filipinos-move-on-from-the-war/story/
Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation by Vicente Rafael
Rebel Language (Review Author: Akshya Saxena)
- October 2021 | Cultural Critique by University of the Minnesota Press | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/803760
Patronage Democracy in the Philippines: Clans, Clients, and Competition in Local Elections edited by Julio C. Teehankee and Cleo Anne A. Calimbahin
A look at the country’s patronage politics (Review Author: Elfren S. Cruz)
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April 2022 | PhilStar | https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2022/04/03/2171823/look-countrys-patronage-politics
Timely tome on ‘patronage democracy’ is an eye-opener (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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May 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/lifestyle-columns/no-shelf-control/314226703/timely-tome-on-patronage-democracy-is-an-eye-opener.html
Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem
Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: the Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite, written by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem (Review Author: Jan Robert R. Go)
- April 2021 | Philippine Political Science Journal | https://brill.com/view/journals/ppsj/41/3/article-p269_3.xml
Repentance and Rebirth at the End of Life as We Know It by Agustin Martin Rodriguez
Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez’s Repentance and Rebirth at the End of Life as We Know It (Review Author: Oscar D. Sison Jr)
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April 2022 | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints | https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1qSg4S_y1nmB88wmHJFkQESd62YA8...
Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case Against China by Marites Vitug
Shifting Sands in the South China Sea (Review Author: John Nilsson-Wright, Taehwan Kim, John Delury, Nayan Chanda)
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January 2022 | Global Asia https://www.globalasia.org/v16no4/book/short-reviews_john-nilsson-wrighttaehwan-kimjohn-delurynayan-chanda
Sensing Manila by Gary Devilles
Sensing Manila (Review Author: Louie Benedict R. Ignacio)
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June 2022 | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints | https://philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/view/5138/6967
Some Are Smarter Than Others: The History of Marcos’ Crony Capitalism by Ricardo Manapat
Social Climbers (Review Author: Joseph Garcia)
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August 2020 | BusinessWorld | https://www.bworldonline.com/social-climbers/
Sui Generis: Rule of Law Matters (Review Author: Marites Vitug)
- September 2021 | Marites Vitug Newsletter | https://mailchi.mp/dc5e5524ee2f/some-are-smarter-than-others
What we mean when we say ‘Never Again’ (Review Author: Clem Malubay)
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February 2022 | Rappler | https://www.rappler.com/voices/imho/opinion-what-we-mean-when-we-say-never-again/
Song of the Mango and Other New Myths by Vida Cruz-Borja
Holiday Reads (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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December 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/314290470/holiday-reads.html
I read a short story collection about Pinoy lore and myths! (Review Author: Pam Quinones)
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December 2022 | Pam's Shenanigans BookTube | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf7MGQWagjw
Tiempo Muerto by Caroline S. Hau
‘Tiempo Muerto,’ ‘Broken Islands’ highlight women’s lives (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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November 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/lifestyle-columns/no-shelf-control/314275723/tiempo-muerto-broken-islands-highlight-womens-lives.html
The Age of Umbrage by Jessica Zafra
Jessica Zafra pens a wry coming-of-age tale (Review Author: Scott Garceau)
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October 2020 | Philippine Star | https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/the-philippine-star/20201011/282226603192162
Popular Filipino author/columnist & podcaster, Jessica Zafra's first novel, The Age Of Umbrage (Review Author: Noelle Q. de Jesus)
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October 2020 | Asian Books Blog | http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2020/10/popular-filipino-authorcolumnist.html
Jessica Zafra's First Novel Is For Misfits and Outcasts (Review Author: Paul John Cana)
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October 2020 | Esquire Philippines | https://www.esquiremag.ph/culture/books-and-art/jessica-zafra-first-novel-age-of-umbrage-review-a00289-20201017
Zafra’s auspicious debut as novelist (Review Author: Elizabeth Lolarga)
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November 2020 | Verafiles.org | https://verafiles.org/articles/zafras-auspicious-debut-novelist
Short and snarky (Review Author: Danton Remoto)
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December 2020 | Philippine Star | https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2020/12/19/2064806/short-and-snarky
Portrait of the Filipino woman as a smart outsider (Review Author: Danton Remoto)
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August 2022 | Manila Times | https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/08/25/opinion/columns/portrait-of-the-filipino-woman-as-a-smart-outsider/1855904
The Betrayed by Reine Arcache Melvin
Ménage à trois of deceit (Interviewer: Luis H. Francia)
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November 2022 | Inquirer | https://usa.inquirer.net/114775/menage-a-trois-of-deceit
The Collaborators by Katrina Tuvera
Novels that explore difficult, disturbing societal themes (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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September 2022 | Manila Standard https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/lifestyle-columns/no-shelf-control/314259044/novels-that-explore-difficult-disturbing-societal-themes.html
A heritage of implicit complicity (Review Author: Alfred A. Yuson)
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October 2022 | Philippine Star | https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/990261-heritage-implicit-complicity
The Collected Stories by Jessica Zafra by Jessica Zafra
Out of the Blue (Review Author: Noelle Q. de Jesus)
- March 2020 | Asian Books Blog | http://www.asianbooksblog.com/2020/03/two-out-of-blue-lacuesta-zafra.html
The Philippines Is Not A Small Country by Gideon Lasco
Book ponders nationhood (Review Author: Ruel S. De Vera)
- October 2020 | Philippine Daily Inquirer | https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/philippine-daily-inquirer-1109/20201012/281556588295232
Gideon Lasco’s The Philippines Is Not a Small Country (Review Author: Jerome V. Cleofas)
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April 2022 | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints | https://philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/view/5126
A Sense of History and National Identity
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April 2022 | Vox Populi PH | https://voxpopuliph.com/2022/04/12/a-sense-of-history-and-national-identity-in-gideon-lascos-the-philippines-is-not-a-small-country/
The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vicente L. Rafael
No Beast Larger than All of Us: Theorizing Strongman Rule in the Philippine Postcolony (Review Author: Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr.)
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September 2022 | Philippine Political Science Journal | https://brill.com/view/journals/ppsj/43/2/article-p253_6.xml
Comparative Authoritarianism: On Vicente L. Rafael’s “The Sovereign Trickster” and Erin Murphy’s “Burmese Haze” (Review Author: Rosalie Metro)
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October 2022 | Los Angeles Review of Books | https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/comparative-authoritarianism-on-vicente-l-rafaels-the-sovereign-trickster-and-erin-murphys-burmese-haze/
The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State by James Warren
BISDAK: The Timeless Insights of James Warren (Review Author: Patricio N. Abinales)
- November 2021 | MindaNews | https://www.mindanews.com/mindaviews/2021/11/bisdak-the-timeless-insights-of-james-warren/
Virgin (muli) Po Ako (mga dulang may isang yugto) ni Reuel Molina Aguila
Bakit virgin? A review of ‘Virgin Muli Po Ako’ (Review Author: Daniel Lorenzo Mariano)
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September 2022 | Rappler https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/literature/review-virgin-muli-po-ako-reuel-molina-aguila/
Yñiga by Glenn Diaz
Holiday Reads (Review Author: Jenny Ortuoste)
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December 2022 | Manila Standard | https://manilastandard.net/lifestyle/314290470/holiday-reads.html