Sunday's Notes

Tom Holland reviews Simon Price's and Peter Thonemann's The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine for the Guardian, 1 May. Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey,"Lessons from Venus," Claremont Review, 24 May, reviews Justine Lacroix's La Pensée Française à l'Epreuve de l'Europe.

Adam Eaker,"Caravaggio's Grand Passions," Daily Beast, 11 June, reviews"Caravaggio," an exhibit at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale. Don't miss the Caravaggio Gallery.

Ruth Scurr reviews Ruth Harris's The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France for the Guardian, 13 June.

Richard McGregor,"The man who exposed Mao's secret famine," Financial Times, 12 June, is an excerpt from his The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers.

Barry Gewen,"Leave No War Behind," NYT, 13 June, reviews Justin Vaïsse's Neo-Conservatism: The Biography of a Movement.