From n+1, an article on the receding public shoreline: what's happening over at Jones Beach. The energetic spirit of New York City: A review of Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik and Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen. A review of The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice by Greil Marcus. Opening doors to other cultures: An interview with Uma Krishnaswami, an author of Indian origin writing for children in the US. A review of The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie. A review of Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul and Maureen Freely's Enlightenment, two novels that bravely address the identity crisis of modern Turkey. 

We need critics with cojones: For poetry to thrive, we need journalists and academics prepared to argue for absolute not relative

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