Dan Costinas

Dan Costinas

When Life Gives You Books

September 16, 2026
That evening, sitting amidst tower blocks of Victorian drainage history, Phineas realised Mrs Brown was right. Lemons were versatile. Books were heavy, flammable and stubbornly dry. But as the rain began to drizzle over the hill, he decided that if life refused to give him citrus, he would simply have to improvise…

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The book remains one of the most influential works in modern philosophy. It challenges readers to step away from mindless conformity, take responsibility for their own lives and constantly strive towards personal transformation and creative self-expression…

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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About Me

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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