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What would Joan think? Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her death.

Alan Weisman has found an all-world cast of scientists, engineers and environmentalists who have dreamed big and worked passionately to repair some of the world’s wrecked ecosystems and also to develop processes that, for example, use far less energy

Sara Jafari’s “Things Left Unsaid” is a love-craving, tumbling tale of two Iranian British friends who first meet in high school — the self-skeptic and pessimist Shirin Bayat, and the traumatized Kian Rahimi.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 27-May 3: April 27: Singer Kate Pierson of The B-52′s is 77. Singer Herbie Murrell of The Stylistics is 76. Actor Douglas Sheehan (“Knots Landing”) is 76. Guitarist Ace Frehley (Kiss) is 74.

EDMONTON — One of North America’s largest Fringe festivals says a new fundraising campaign that lets donors "adopt" and then name a portable toilet has helped prevent the event from getting dumped.

NEW YORK (AP) — Brand names, not filmmakers or stars, are said to rule the box office these days. But Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” led by twin Michael B. Jordans, proved a bloody exception to modern movie rules, launching with $45.

CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained men in gold mines, and a pregnant woman.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — From Harry Potter to Super Mario Bros. to Frankenstein's monster, Universal Orlando Resort is pulling out all the pop culture stops at its newest and largest theme park in Florida .

NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Keri Hilson put out an album , Barack Obama was in the second year of his first term as U.S. president, the iPad was released and Instagram was brand new. “On some days, I’m like that was just a blink away.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Seiders, drummer for Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers, has been arrested and charged with possessing child sex abuse materials, authorities said.