June 1, 2022 - 7:58 am in Home @en, Literature @enIs Nothing Sacred? From the Furry Freaks to Dante’s Inferno
It does seem that the sacred is not given much play any more – and good luck to it. Too often notions of the sacred are easily exposed as simply ludicrous - at best - and actually actively sinister…
May 31, 2022 - 12:10 am in Home @en, Literature @enA Fresh Look at the Limerick: Author Ranjit Bolt Writes for DANTE
By Ranjit Bolt I have always loved the limerick as a genre. As a child, I loved composing them after being given a book of them for Christmas. It is a genre that is almost as British as the Haiku…
May 30, 2022 - 8:00 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, book, Business, Film @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Nonno Panda tales @en, Politics @en, riffi khan, TheatreThe Globe-localisation or Animal Farm of the 21st Century? A review of “The Zoo”
Humans love a good animal story. Across time and cultures we tend to anthropomorphise animals in order to better look at ourselves. But how if those stories were truly told from the animal point of…
April 27, 2022 - 9:00 am in Architecture @en, Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Columns @en, design, Design @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, Literature @en, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Style @en, technology, Window of the soul @enART COMES IN ALL SHAPES AND FORMS.
Remembering a genius 570 years after his birth ( 15th of april 1452). Massimo Gava reflects on a most usual job application “In times of peace I believe I can give perfect satisfaction…
May 12, 2020 - 6:57 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, interview, Literature @en, massimo gava, Nonno Panda tales @en, Politics @en, Travel @en, Window of the soul @enTHE LAST AFRICAN COLONY
The Spanish Empire was one of the first great colonial empires and one of the largest. Here Professor Alberto Maestre Fuentes talks about its former colony in Africa, The Spanish Sahara, which is…
April 17, 2020 - 9:30 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, book, Home @en, interview, Literature @en, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, TheatreArditti’s brilliance inspires us again with his new novel. The Anointed.
Massimo Gava interviews DANTE favourite, Michael Arditti, about his new novel, The Anointed. The Anointed is a beautiful, bold and imaginative retelling of the story of King David and his wives. The…
September 17, 2019 - 8:17 pm in Art @en, book, Food for thought @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Travel @en, Window of the soul @enA la recherche du temps perdu…
Finding himself at a dead end after retiring from a high-flying career, DANTE contributor, Nigel Parsons is inspired by an old photo album and goes in search of long-lost friends. Andy Warhol talked…
June 15, 2019 - 8:20 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, book, Food for thought @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Nonno Panda tales @enThe Knights and the Princesses. In the Grenfell Tower.
A tragedy can be turned into a fairytale. In this heartfelt story, author Chiara Lenisa tells us about a Knight and a Princess that turned, the Grenfell Tower inferno, probably the most serious fire…
January 21, 2019 - 11:12 am in Film @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, pano masti, Politics @en, Uncategorized @enIn Extremis. – A Life Lived
A new book takes us deep inside the remarkable life of intrepid war-correspondent Marie Colvin, who blazed trails for reporting the truth agianst the odds - and for independent fearless women. Susanne…
November 11, 2018 - 11:01 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Film @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, pano masti, Politics @en, Travel @en, Uncategorized @enFemale Gaze East
Pano Masti’s latest literary pilgrimage takes him to Jordan. Never mind Oscar Wilde or T. E. Lawrence, the words that echo in his mind are from women: Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Gertrude Bell…
