Things Noted Here & There

Margherita Laera,"Peter Greenaway's multimedia vision of Christ," Wired.co.uk, 11 June, and Roberta Smith,"In Venice, Peter Greenaway Takes Veronese's Figures Out to Play," NYT, 21 June, review"The Wedding at Cana: A Vision by Peter Greenaway."

Larry Kramer reviews Charles Upchurch's Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain's Age of Reform for the Huffington Post, 16 June. Kramer is so full of it.

"The Evolution of Underwear," Daily Beast, 17 June, reviews"Undercover: The Evolution of Underwear," an exhibit at London's Fashion and Textile Museum. See also: the Beast's slide show.

Jonathan Mirsky,"China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story," NYRB, 2 July, reviews Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang, translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius, with a foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar.

Bernard Avishai,"A World Apart? The White House and the Middle East," The Nation, 17 June, explores the failure of the White House to persuade Israel to accept a plan for regional peace.