The Divine Comedy News

Booksellers are expecting big things. Both Barnes & Nobles and Amazon's book section led with the work, already already listed as Amazon's #1 bestseller .

Inferno, the first part of Dante's poem The Divine Comedy, provides the theme and title for the new thriller by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.

The plot of Inferno , the new blockbuster thriller from Dan Brown, has nothing to do with Dante, but you often feel the author wishing that it did.

SO, the last taste we had of Harvard symbologist Prof Robert Langdon was in Dan Brown's last novel The Lost Symbol , released four years ago.

Coming at the top of the list, this might sound like a meaningless statement, but it's important.

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron are two monumental works of the late middle ages.

International best-seller Dan Brown's highly anticipated next novel, "Inferno," book four in the Robert Langdon novels, is due out this month.

April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than with new poetry releases? Here are four of this month's highlights - a new translation, a "best of" collection, a "collected works" worth revisiting and a camera-eye view of the world.

To call Clive James, as I once did, "the greatest living cultural critic writing in English" barely scratches the surface.

GERMANTOWN Bands from Germantown High School will perform a variety of concerts in May, with each concert held in the school's auxiliary gym at 7 p.m. On Wednesday, May 1, the Concert Winds band will play "Rhapsody on American Shaped Note Melodies," "Shenandoah," "Thunderscape" and "Shrek," while the Jazz Band will entertain with "Groove Merchant," ... (more)

PHOENIX Maestro Christie will lead The Phoenix Symphony and Chorus through a performance of Liszt's Dante Symphony.

Literary translation is suspect; it is too often a reply masquerading as an echo.