Dan Costinas

Dan Costinas

Beyond Blank

Literature lightens the inborn loneliness of existence, reminding us that our deepest…

Rocket Science

September 23, 2026
What they neglected to mention was that when your plumbing breaks on Earth, you call a bloke named Max who arrives in a van and drinks your tea. When your plumbing breaks in a Martian suburban semi-detached, it requires an advanced understanding of fluid dynamics, orbital mechanics and the precise…

Candide, ou l’Optimisme

September 21, 2026
The Age of Enlightenment’s French philosopher wrote this story to mock Leibnizian optimism, a popular philosophy at the time claiming that God created a perfect world. By throwing his innocent main character into a world of catastrophes, Voltaire shows how ridiculous it is to ignore real human suffering with blind…

The Commonwealth of Letters

September 20, 2026
When viewed through the lens of literature, Europe ceases to be a patchwork of sovereign nations guarded by border checks and passport controls. Instead, it reveals itself as a continuous, interconnected expanse stretching from the icy reaches of Greenland (DK) and Iceland to the vast landscapes of Western Russia, Ukraine…
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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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