Dan Costinas

Dan Costinas

The Great Lard Pivot

The Honourable Parliamentarian, who also holds an important ministerial post, adjusted his crimson silk tie, cleared his throat with the practiced rasp of a seasoned speaker and looked squarely into the lens of the TV camera. ‘Allow me to be honest and entirely transparent with the electorate,’ he declared, leaning forward to project an air of deeply sincere urgency. ‘The…

The Link

A book is fundamentally an act of chronological defiance, forging an unbreakable link that forces a ghost to speak and a mind to listen. This quiet miracle is not a solitary phenomenon, but a dynamic triad composed of the creator, the artifact and the interpreter. Together, they engage in a…

The Platonist Dodo

July 27, 2026
I was contemplating the bird when a low chuckle echoed through the silent hall. A dapper gentleman, a man who seemed to have stepped right out of a vintage photograph, appeared from the shadows...…

Two Hats in Tepoztlán

July 23, 2026
Xoco loved her white hat. Not because it matched her embroidered blouse, stitched over countless evenings by the soft shine of a paraffin lamp, nor because it kept the sharp afternoon sun from her eyes. She loved it simply because it was a gift and she wore it because, thirty-eight…

The Quixotic Sand-Windmill Compromise

July 23, 2026
The blazing sun beat down on the castle-less shoreline, a cruel mockery of the joy it once brought Don Quixote. Since it had recently become illegal to build sandcastles in Spain, as a result of some baffling municipal decree, naturally, our hidalgo-knight-errant decided to happily tilt at sand windmills...…

The Ghosts-upon-Avon (Part 1)

‘We shall never know whether Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Donne, Sir William Stanley, Anne Hathaway, even Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen herself, or anyone else wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Still, if they did not, they missed a great, unique opportunity to…
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.

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Books of Our Continent

From the quiet shelves of forty-four national archives and ancient university libraries to the cosy corners of independent bookstores and modest home…

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