Sunday's Notes

Michael Dirda looks at The Letters of Pliny the Younger and The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius for the Barnes & Noble Review.

Max Rodenbeck,"The Muslim Past," NYT, 27 June, reviews Bernard Lewis's Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East and Fred Donner's Mohammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam.

Peter Conrad reviews Andrew Graham-Dixon's Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane for the Guardian, 27 June.

Adam Kirsch,"Positively Jewish," The Book, 25 June, reviews Jonathan Sacks's Future Tense: Jews, Judiasm, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century.