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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
December 26, 2015 - 11:10 pm 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…
Brave and Beautiful
War Veterans Defy Injuries for Picture Project By Suzie Solna These guys had fought bravely in war. They had perfect bodies too. They were beautiful, and they still are. They were always…
December 1, 2015 - 5:00 am in Health @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @enJudge Bearing HIV Witness
Edwin Cameron is a senior judge in South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal and the only person in public office to acknowledge having HIV/AIDS. In his book Witness to AIDS he gives a frank account…
November 29, 2015 - 8:07 pm in Home @en, Literature @enHomage to Typewriters: Back to the Future
How non-digital writing is freeing creativity By Mark Beech The typewriter: a museum piece or a machine of the future? It is not as silly a question as it may sound. An impressive new book, “The…
How the virtue of greed is destroying ‘our common home’
Is greed a virtue or a vice? Has our society turned a vice into a virtue? One very powerful and influential voice has entered the debate via the wide-spread concern with the environment. Pope…
Dante in London
Dantemag brings to your attention a meeting with Dante’s poetry taking place in London. If William Shakespeare is the genius of English literature, then Dante is the genius of Italy. Primo Levi…
Sex in Mao’s Time and Today
The ultimate yin and yang: male and female. As yin and yang of west and east meet, George Walden explores how attitudes have changed in China. by George Walden In Shanghai recently, alone in the…
120 Days of Sodom Manfred Zylla – from series to book
In a review of Manfred Zylla’s latest book, German critic Andrea Schlaier noted that Zylla’s paintings suggest that the lust for cruelty is inside all of us. The 77—year-old German/South…
April 18, 2015 - 3:27 pm in Home @en, Literature @en“Not Your Mother’s Hysterectomy: A Transformation in Women’s Health Care”
Women have been left too long in the dark about the whys and wherefores of hysterectomy and what the latest surgical procedures offer the modern patient. Lynn D Kowalski in her ground-breaking…
March 5, 2015 - 12:03 am in Home @en, Literature @enThe Saga of a Novel: One Woman’s Story
In a famous interview published in the Paris Review, Ernest Hemingway told George Plimpton that he had written the last page of A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied with…
January 8, 2015 - 4:29 pm in Home @en, Literature @enIslam, Censorship and a Modern Tradition
KUALA LUMPUR: I enter one of hundreds of bookshops in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The air-conditioning hits you in the face like a cool storm. With the dense humidity outside, the cool…
January 8, 2015 - 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…
August 16, 2014 - 8:59 am in Business, Business @en, Business & Politics @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, interview, Literature @en, massimo gava, Politics @enWho Are The Devils These Days?
Investment bankers are such a toxic brand, it is inconceivable that anyone could write a best-selling novel about them. However, Massimo Gava meets Guido Maria Brera, the Italian writer who has…
August 15, 2014 - 12:09 pm in Home @en, Literature @enFor the love of Books, the revenge of the intellectuals
How do you write about reading? How do you do it without sounding either facetious or pretentious? By being slightly confessional, more personal and less objective? Mario Moniz Barreto explores…
December 18, 2013 - 10:09 am in Literature @enWhat Will You Do For A Breath of Night?
Michael Arditti is an English novelist who has been described by Philip Pullman as ‘our best chronicler of the rewards and pitfalls of present day faith’ and hailed in many quarters…
August 1, 2013 - 10:46 am in Literature @enThe 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…
June 1, 2013 - 12:20 pm in Literature @enThe Great World in Miniature: An Introduction
They are stiff little men, and shiny. They stand alone in empty rooms. They stand pinned, exhibiting themselves, confronting or evading us. Franklin Pierce plays an old cocktail party trick and…
June 1, 2013 - 9:29 am in Art and Culture @en, Columns @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Nonno Panda tales @enNonno Panda and the Dolphin
Nonno Panda and... The Dolphin One day, wandering along life’s path, I got lost in a dark wood, unable to find the right way... I heard the noise of waves breaking on the shore. It’s always…
April 18, 2013 - 7:23 pm in Literature @enHero Cult: Two Thousand Years of Subversion
There is nothing new under the sun. The shout of Punk may come with modern trappings, but it is a cry heard in many an era, in many forms. Ancient Greek poet Archilochus, who voiced that cry in…
September 2, 2012 - 9:56 am in Literature @enMort Todd: Diabolikal Super-Kriminal
Cartoonist/writer/editor/producer - OK, Renaissance Man - Mort Todd has had a storied career in comics, music, television, and film. He's worked everywhere from Cracked Magazine to Walt Disney…-
July 1, 2012 - 12:36 am in Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Nonno Panda tales @en
Nonno Panda and the Killer Whale
One day I got lost in the dark wood, unable to find the right way... around the zoo. I happened to be passing by the big pool. Seeing that there were no humans around, I thought I'd say hello… 
July 1, 2012 - 12:32 am in Literature @en“It Has All Been Most Interesting”
By Rowlinson Carter Those are the supposed dying words of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whom one biographer described as being "the best platonic female company that Eighteenth Century England can…
June 7, 2012 - 12:01 am in Literature @enOf All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen…
By Elisabeth Molnar Those saddest words of all are explored from both sides in Lionel Shriver’s novel “The Post-Birthday World”. Our reviewer finds you can’t really escape what might have…
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