Globalization and the New Slave Trade
Congressman and activist Walden Bello asks: Is labor export the new slave trade? Globalization...
Reviewing the Reviewers
When a book gets reviewed, we learn something not only about the person who wrote the book, but also about the person who reviews it. Reviews trade in a highly coveted currency: public attention. Positive reviews boost sales. Negative ones—certain kinds at least—are even better, serving as lightning rods for public debate on issues of...
The Good Book Review
All of literature is a conversation. Writers create worlds and invite us to imagine how other people live. They bring us news, history, argument, and ask us to argue back. They impel us to feel, to notice, to observe as they change their minds, or endeavor to change ours. The critic has always been a...
Citizens vs. Sotto: Speaking Truth to Power
Plagiarism is “not a crime”,i but neither is it a “storm in a teacup”. ii At the heart of plagiarism are issues of integrity which undermine the foundations of democratic practice. I teach qualitative research methods to undergraduate students of sociology in the University of the Philippines. One of the first things students learn in...
Love Trouble
Last Valentine’s Day, I was searching for a book on love. No, it’s not what you think: I just needed a title to promote for the holiday, for my marketing job at UP Press. One jumped out at me: Fourteen Love Stories, edited by Butch Dalisay and Sarge Lacuesta. In its pages I discovered pieces...
The Manila Review interviews Katrina Stuart Santiago
Last April, literary critic and essayist Katrina Stuart Santiago wrote a controversial polemic about patronage and cliquishness in the Philippine writing establishment. MR editors Caroline S. Hau (CSH) and Miguel Syjuco (MS) probe deeper. CSH: Your article, “Burn After Reading” (Rogue Magazine, April 13, 2012) is critical of the “us-vs-them” cliquishness of the Philippine...
In conversation with Sheila Coronel and Vince Rafael
Recently, we invited our senior editor Sheila Coronel and our contributing editor Vicente L. Rafael for a quick chat over at Cafe Adriatico in Malate. Here’s a sneak peek at their insightful conversation. Sheila Coronel serves as Director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and professor of professional practice, Columbia University, New York. Ms....
