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A glass perfume bottle shatters and bright spring flowers and clouds of blue and purple vapor burst out of it (Getty Images/Anton Frunze)

Love, perfume ... and murder

Alison Stine
The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia on May 28, 2018. Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless telecommunications signals are banned to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The mirage of a town without cellphones

Sarah Scoles - Undark
The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment by Dave Eggers (Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images/Knopf)

Eggers on Trump & the truth in his lies

Ashlie D. Stevens
The Testament by Margaret Atwood (Sophie Giraud/Hulu/McClelland & Stewart)

Hope for Gilead in "The Testaments"

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Cate Blanchett stars as Bernadette Fox in Richard Linklater’s "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" (Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures)

"Bernadette" and female creative genius

Ashlie D. Stevens

Brush up on your creative writing skills

Salon Marketplace
"Sunburn: A Novel" by Laura Lippman (Harper Collins)

"Sunburn": Reconsidering a femme fatale

Erin Keane
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Whiteness will fade

Carey Purcell - Alternet
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Ed Harris, Lance Henriksen, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Charles Frank, Scott Paulin, and Fred Ward in "The Right Stuff" (Warner Bros.)

DiCaprio has "The Right Stuff"

Alessandra Maldonado

Victoria Patterson - The Weeklings
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=7150250'>Brightrock</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Larissa Pham - Full Stop
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