RIP Legend: Looking Back on Tom Wolfe
By Mark Beech, DANTE editor My first encounter with the works of Tom Wolfe came from a most unusual source. Not one of his favoured American publications or indeed some of his more famous books, but…
March 22, 2018 - 12:41 am in Angels @en, Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, TheatreOf Men and Angels. Arditti’s Epic Tale Spans Centuries
“Thank God (maybe literally) for writers like Michael Arditti, whose invigorating novels dare to shake us out of our complacency.” These are the words of The Spectator magazine. Massimo Gava…
March 9, 2018 - 9:11 am in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Divine Comedy @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Music @en, Politics @en, Window of the soul @enItalian Politicians should not forget the roots in their boot.
Together with the prince of Allegria, Roberto Benigni, we remind the Italian politicians about to form a new governement the true meaning of their national anthem. Massimo Gava writes. In the San…
December 2, 2017 - 9:38 am in Alice James, Architecture @en, Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Business & Politics @en, Cover @en, design, Design @en, Divine Comedy @en, Events @en, Fashion @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, Kevin Regan, Kevin Regan, Letters from the editors @en, Literature @en, Marc Forget, Marc Forget, Marco Pernini @en, Mark Beech, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Mission statement @en, Nonno Panda tales @en, pano masti, Style @en, Travel @enOUT NOW
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November 17, 2017 - 12:31 pm in Film @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, pano masti, Uncategorized @enOn the Slow Train to Somewhere
Celebrating railway journeys Writer Pano Masti recalls more literary journeys. This time, book in hand, around the world by train. “Are those your prison tattoos?” Shaun asked with a cheek, and…
June 28, 2017 - 10:57 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Literature @en, Mark Beech, Music @enWhen Led Zep Met the Damned: Punk’s Roxy Celebrated After 40 Years
In 100 days, London’s Roxy became the most influential punk club in the world. It is being celebrated with a new book, blue plaque and an exhibition. Mark Beech meets the Roxy’s founders. …
June 12, 2017 - 9:34 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Literature @en, Uncategorized @enA Poet in His London Corner: Robert Cole Reviewed
Jane Bowen reviews Robert Cole’s London Poems Robert Cole is disarmingly modest in the forward to his new book: “London Poems is a slim volume written by a middle aged English fat bloke.” Now…
April 26, 2017 - 11:19 pm in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Literature @en, Mark BeechLong Live the Book! Top Bookbinder Mark Cockram’s Art Offers Vision of Future
By Mark Beech Is the book dead? Not if Mark Cockram has anything to do with it. DANTE's editor meets up with this top bookbinder and discovers how his story and his creations mean that the book as…
April 6, 2017 - 12:49 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Literature @en, Uncategorized @enDante recommends: Sara Baume’s consistently remarkable `A Line Made by Walking’
Review by Nicholas Tufnell Frankie is a twenty-something art school graduate whose small world is “coming apart by increments.” Working menial tasks in a Dublin art gallery and moving from box…
April 7, 2016 - 8:49 am in Home @en, Literature @en“James Joyce 1906-1907: The Ambiguity of Epiphanies”. by Giuseppe Cafiero (translated by Simon Knight)
by Massimo Gava A fascinating and provocative literary fiction exploring the forgotten year that Irish author James Joyce lived and worked in Rome, enjoying an extraordinary love-hate relationship…
