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Beyond Blank

Literature lightens the inborn loneliness of existence, reminding us that our deepest fears and highest hopes belong to us all. Without that shared flame, we are left only with the smoke of forgotten thoughts drifting into the dark…

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...…
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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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