John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (1997)
Elaine Pagels, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (2010)
Reviewed by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker, March 5, 2012: “The Big Reveal: Why does the Bible end that way?”
Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City (2006)
the melancholy–or hüzün– that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire (from a review on Amazon)
Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence (2008)
Profiled by Joshua Hammer in The New York Times, January 31, 2014: “Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul.”
Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City (1972, new ed 2010)