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Get into gear

Hit the slopes in style with the coldest season’s hottest innovations
A new season brings new toys, and snow sports fanatics are nothing if not gearheads.
By CLEA SIMON  |  November 17, 2009
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Victorian jewel

A fictional setting that never fades
What price beauty? That's the question lovely Grace Hammer has to answer as her world begins to fall apart.
By CLEA SIMON  |  September 09, 2009
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Trail of tunes

Music al fresco at summer fests
The best summer music festivals take something from the season: the smell of the surf, the sight of the mountains, fireworks, lawn seating — or, at least, fried dough.
By CLEA SIMON  |  June 09, 2009
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Undercover

April Smith's mystery/thrillers delve in darkness
Ana Grey is the fearless heroine of April Smith's dark and thoughtful thriller series. But reading these fast-paced books shows the question to be more complicated. Ana Grey is, after all, not only a brave FBI agent, but also the cowering daughter of a racist bully.
By CLEA SIMON  |  June 09, 2009
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Ready to roll

How to give your bike a proper spring cleaning
Whether you've been slogging through the streets on two wheels all winter, or are only now retrieving your bicycle, dusty and cobwebbed, from the basement, the extra light, the warm air, and the promise of snow-free roads are calling.
By CLEA SIMON  |  May 06, 2009
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Bytes of knowledge

Getting the most from an online education
Once upon a time, we thought it was novel to be able to buy books in our bathrobes.
By CLEA SIMON  |  April 29, 2009
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Rare treats

There are foodie consumers and there are foodie creators, but they all appreciate something unusual
They've dined you, they've wined you with meals both wonderful and offal.
By CLEA SIMON  |  December 08, 2008
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Sex and food and Abraham Lincoln

Gift books for every (perverse) taste
We put out a call to our contributors to suggest appropriate holiday gift books and what do we get back?
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  December 05, 2008
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Interview: Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky

Two historians pen a bodice ripper
Long-time friends Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky didn't set out to write Blindspot, a novel complete with murder, scandal, slave stealing, and some very hot sex.
By CLEA SIMON  |  December 02, 2008
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Technically improved

Ski and snowboard gear refined, not redefined
Snow sports shred the space-time continuum this winter, with new styles that push technological boundaries for form and function.
By CLEA SIMON  |  November 18, 2008
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Murder, she wrote

Interview: Tana French's deep crime novels
"It’s always more fun to write people who are really messed up or really vicious."
By CLEA SIMON  |  August 05, 2008
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Spy games

Alan Furst’s “Night Soldiers” novels
The gray afternoon, the loveless assignation, the endless bureaucracy.
By CLEA SIMON  |  June 10, 2008
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Flying high

Interview: Jonathan Miles’s airport novel
There’s nothing new about the complaint as literature, says author Jonathan Miles.
By CLEA SIMON  |  June 02, 2008
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Shaping the Crescent

The making of New Orleans
Even before Katrina wreaked its havoc on New Orleans, a popular T-shirt proclaimed the city “Third World and Proud of It,” and numerous more-literary types have long referred to it as the “northernmost Caribbean city.”
By CLEA SIMON  |  December 22, 2008
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General Tso’s way

The path of a Chinese foodie
Behind every dish lies a story, and behind a cuisine, well, there may be a book.
By CLEA SIMON  |  March 12, 2008
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Shrink-wrapped

Carol Gilligan steps into fiction
If ever a thinker stood for the idea of questioning authority, it was Carol Gilligan.
By CLEA SIMON  |  January 22, 2008
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Free speech

Elizabeth Little’s word games
Twenty-six-year-old author (and Harvard grad) Elizabeth Little has had a lifelong love affair with language.
By CLEA SIMON  |  December 31, 2007
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Laotian dreams

Colin Cotterill’s Dr. Siri novels
Dr. Siri Paiboun has a sense of proportion.
By CLEA SIMON  |  September 04, 2007
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Bound and gagged

Lisa See gets tied up in the Qing
Girl meets boy; girl loses boy; girl wins boy back. It’s an old story, and it usually works, even when it’s set halfway around the world and the girl and boy are 17th-century Qing Dynasty aristocrats.
By CLEA SIMON  |  July 18, 2007
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Gumshoes and golems

Michael Chabon’s Alaskan-Yiddish noir
Michael Chabon has boundary issues.
By CLEA SIMON  |  June 05, 2007
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Going under Down Under

Richard Flanagan’s fish in a barrel
Everybody loves an outlaw, and Richard Flanagan is no exception.
By CLEA SIMON  |  May 01, 2007
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Homecoming

Local group slams for NOLA
A home is more than a structure, more than a safe place to lay your head. It’s community, continuity, and belonging.
By CLEA SIMON  |  March 26, 2007
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Pop elegy

Critic Rob Sheffield comes to terms with the death of his musical soul mate in Love Is a Mix Tape
If every generation has its Love Story , its tragic tale of romance and loss, then Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mix Tape is that book for those who came of age with indie rock.
By CLEA SIMON  |  March 10, 2007

Marcia Ball

Lagniappe
New Orleans–style pianist Marcia Ball doesn’t need special guests to validate her rumba-boogie blues.
By CLEA SIMON  |  February 27, 2006
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Meow mix

The Moscow Cats Theatre sinks its claws in
Working like a cat is very different from working like a dog.
By CLEA SIMON  |  January 18, 2006

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