INTERVIEW: Weaving tales out of an archipelago of stars with essayist Teng Mangansakan

MANILA, Philippines – Grief, longing, and violence, in plethora of ways, recur in the essays collected in Archipelago of Stars, which introduces both personal and larger histories, from the provenance of a name to the existence of royalties, from the Sabah invasion to the Philippine electoral system, from refugeeism to migration and notions of home, and from being a voracious reader to the proverbial question of what it means to be a writer.

Authored by Teng Mangansakan, of films such as Limbunan (2010) and Forbidden Memory (2016)...