'Writing for the New Millennium: The Birth of Electronic Literature" by Robert Kendall, in Poets & Writers Magazine (Nov.-Dec. 1995), 72 Spring St., New York, N.Y. 10012.
"Sound and Sentimentality: Nostalgia in the Songs of Stephen Foster" by Susan Key, in American Music (Summer 1995),Sonneck Society for American Music, P.O. Box 476, Canton, Mass. 02021.
'Russia and the Far East: Working toward a Serious Partnership with China" by Peter Ferdinand, in Transition (Sept. 1995), Open Media Research Institute, 1201 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
"Democracy or Technocracy? European Integration and the Problem of Popular Consent" by William Wallace and Julie Smith, in West European Politics (July 1995), Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 900 Eastern Ave., London IG2 7HH, England.
"Historians and Nation-Building in Germany after Reunification" by Stefan Berger, in Past and Present (Aug. 1995), 175 Banbury Rd., Oxford OX2 7AW, England.
"Transforming Television in India" by Sevanti Ninan, in Media Studies Journal (Summer 1995), Columbia Univ., 2950 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10027.
One of the remarkable things about the work of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013) was the way it extended from the realm of the personal to the political.
Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
BURY ME STANDING: The Gypsies and Their Journey By Isabel Fonseca. Knopf. 322 pp. $25
ANCIENT ZIONISM The Biblical Origins of the National Idea. By Avi Erlich. The Free Press. 277 pp. $23