Archive - The Traveller's Literary Supplicant

Voltaire’s Unexpected Influence on My Detective Fiction

How I chanced upon a whimsical Enlightenment classic, of Persian origin

Nov 21 •

October 2024

Istanbul History and Houses: Discovering the Levantine Glavany Family

Ottoman cultural heritage, as revealed by an architect and historian

Oct 30 •

Edgar Allan Poe and the Horror of Dutch Painting

When detective-fiction work led to scholarly insight on “The Masque of the Red Death”

Oct 16 •

When Greek Café-Culture Haunts a Mystery (& another Detective Grigoris Anti-Excerpt)

Sometimes, it’s all about atmosphere, travel, and honoring what made the past special

Oct 2 •

September 2024

New Adventures around the First Detective Grigoris Novel

Current Status, an anti-excerpt, and future article topics you’ll love

Sep 17 •

August 2024

July 2024

Book Review: Cardinal Bessarion’s Latin Library (Monfasani, 2012)

Inside one of the greatest personal libraries ever assembled

Jul 7 •

June 2024

Byzantium and Bulgaria: 775-831 (Sophoulis, 2012)

Getting into the granularities of the ‘dark ages’ in the Balkans

Jun 22 •

May 2024

March 2024

Algernon Blackwood’s Spooky Fiction: Travel & Philosophical Aspects

What did H.P. Lovecraft overlook in his 1927 survey?

Mar 14 •

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