Arts & Culture

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.

LONDON (Reuters) — Filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou takes audiences to a bustling Taipei night market in family drama “Left-Handed Girl,” weaving in personal and “collected” experiences.

By Joey Connolly     T.G.I.F.A.S. T.hanksgiving– G.lad I.ts F.riday A.nd S.aturday  T.G.I.F.A.S. Thank Goodness Its Friday And Saturdaygorging incessantly on fattening food and sweets still enough chocolate pie left to last through Mondaynow more buttered mashed potatoes and gravy repeats  Af…

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.

Today, we’re focused on gratitude, full plates, and that annual family-and-friends roll call where half the invitees are “on the way” but don’t actually show up until dessert.

PARIS (Reuters) — A rarely seen painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicting his son and his nursemaid, was sold for 1.45 million euros ($1.68 million) at an auction held by Drouot on Tuesday in Paris.

By Joey Connolly     I ‘think’ giving and sharing poetry from countries at war will increase the breadth and depth of the ‘thanks we give’ for having such a beautiful and peaceful place to live in the CNMI. Right now millions of people on both sides of the wars in Gaza/Israel and Ukraine/Russia hav…

MARIANAS Variety editor Zaldy Dandan’s fourth book, “If He Isn’t Insane Then He Should Be: Stories & Poems from Saipan,” is available at the Joeten Shopping Center in Susupe.

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Han Kang’s first book of nonfiction to come out in English will be released next spring.