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…
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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 23, 2017 - 3:00 pm in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Mark Beech, Music @en, Uncategorized @enStar Images of Ibiza Rocks: Jérôme Ferrière’s Outstanding Photos
Interview by Mark Beech “I grew up with a rock & roll heart and I have never lost it.” The words of French photographer Jérôme Ferrière sum it all up. “More than a music or an attitude,…
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…
Living With Spirits: Thailand Caught on Camera
Bangkok-based photographer and journalist Ben Davies writes about the multi-year project that took him from spirit doctors appeasing the spirits of the sky to entranced devotees and a floating nun…
DANTE Recommends: Letters From Baghdad, Tilda Swinton’s Tribute to ‘Female Lawrence of Arabia’ Gertrude Bell
by Massimo Gava War, tyranny and sectarian strife are tearing apart the Middle East nowadays. Yet the seeds for this tragedy lay in the political mistakes made centuries ago. One British woman was…
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…
December 10, 2013 - 6:22 pm in Art @en, Blog @en, Home @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Nonno Panda tales @en, Politics @en, Travel @enNonno Panda TALES 13
Nonno Panda and... the Rhino - One day, wandering along life’s path, I got lost in a dark jungle, unable to find the right way … I stumbled across a small herd of rhinos. It was the first…
