The Manila Review (MR) is a biannual online publication that aims to map the ideas that shape public discussion in the Philippines. Through review essays of recent and outstanding works of nonfiction and fiction, film, and art, The Manila Review will serve as a living record of changes in politics, the humanities, the sciences, and their intersections.The Manila Review will also be a vehicle for interventions in public debates that require perspectives outside first world literary and academic circles. It seeks to situate the Philippines within global public cultures through analysis that is cosmopolitan and comparative.
“It’s about time. The Manila Review fills a CRITICAL gap — that is, criticism that raises the level, not just the decibel, of discourse in the Philippines and wherever Filipinos are.” — Sheila Coronel“The Manila Review’s mission to provide a venue for in-depth discussion of books, films, and other works on the Philippines is both timely and important.Since the EDSA Revolution, there has been a surge in academic and literary publishing, and the rise of independent filmmaking and creative media industries bears testament to the continuing vitality of the Philippine intellectual and artistic scene.”The Manila Review fulfills an important function: that of publishing reviews that combine critical insight with a solid grasp of the local, national, regional, and global contexts and changing realities out of which books, films, plays and other works on the Philippines are being produced.” — Caroline Hau
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Editor: Lisandro Claudio
Managing Editor: Mara Coson
Associate Editor: Nicole Curato
Literary Editor: Miguel Syjuco
Nonfiction Editor: Clinton Palanca
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Senior Editors: Sheila Coronel, Caroline Hau, Resil Mojares, Criselda Yabes
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Editor-at-Large: Patricio Abinales
Editorial Assistant: Job de Leon
4 comments
Christie Lucagbo says:
Dec 27, 2012
Congratulations! Your venture seems promising, and certainly refreshing. The reviews and essays I’ve read here are, in my view, intelligently and conscientiously written, though still few in number.
I was hoping that, sometime soon, you guys could have a section similar to Shouts and Murmurs of The New Yorker. It would be interesting to read humourous pieces written (quite well, I hope) by Filipinos.
Moreover, I was hoping you could post an online version (PDF or otherwise) of the review. I take it all the pieces in the printed version are also here online, but it would be better if we had the option to view or download the soft copy as it is seen in the printed copy. Knowing how you decided to cluster the pieces helps the reader coherently grasp the “common framework [you had] in mind”.
Again, congratulations, and looking forward to future issues!
leloy says:
Dec 28, 2012
Hi Christie!
Thanks for much for your kind words. You actually read our minds! Those are the very things that we want to work on in the coming months.
Best,
Leloy
Michael Victor Ong says:
Jan 9, 2013
Congratulations for this venture! At least, here we have a refreshing, in-depth, and promisingly intellectual review of published materials for the Philippine reading market. Woe however to us indeed that the market is quite small, at least in my opinion. Nevertheless, this avenue is quite helpful no doubt for the reading public. I wish you could have more reviews – more content. I am sure that the trajectory is towards that for your enterprise.
Let me wish you all the very best for this endeavor! Looking forward to more updates, growth, and development!
Best regards!
Jonas says:
Feb 23, 2013
Looks great! We need more of this.