• "My Paulina, My Country." Salon.com 8 June 2008. Also published as "Mi Paulina, mi país." El País 20 Aug 2008.

• "Are We Really So Fearful?" Washington Post 24 Sept 2006; B01.

• "A Vicious Circle." The Guardian 17 Jan 2008.

• "The Five Minutes of Pope John Paul II." openDemocracy.net 04 Aug 2005.

• "Now Bury the Myths." NewStatesman.com 18 Dec 2006.

• "Dancing to His Tune." NewStatesman.com 29 Aug 2005.

• "America Looks at Itself Through Humanity's Mirror." Los Angeles Times 21 Sept 2001; B15.

• "Homeland Security Ate My Speech." ZMag 15 Jan 2006.

• "Una profecía desde Carolina del Norte." El País 06 May 2008.

• "Waving the Star-Spanglish Banner." Washington Post 7 May 2006: B02.

• "Mission akkomplished." New Statesman 8 May 2006.
  

• "Are there times when we have to accept torture?" Axis of Logic 8 May 2004.
  

• "Love Song for London." Washington Post 9 July 2005: A15.
  

• "Memories of Chile in the Midst of an American Presidential Campaign." TomDispatch.com 26 Oct 2004.
  

• "Si Pinochet muere en el extranjero." El País [Madrid] 13 Dec. 1998. (Unofficial English translation by Lisa Grayson: "If Pinochet dies abroad.")
  

• "Martin Luther King: A Latin American Perspective." ZNet 28 Aug. 2003.
  

• "An open letter to America." The Guardian Unlimited 8 Sept. 2002.
  

• "Americans Must Now Feel What the Rest of Us Have Known." ZNet 3 Oct 2001. (Also available under the title "America Suffers the World's Pain: Unique No More." Counterpunch 3 Oct 2001.)
  

• "Letter to an unknown dissident." The Age [Melbourne] 25 Feb 2003.
  

• "Let Pinochet Back Only On His Deathbed." Los Angeles Times 28 Dec 1999.
  

• "Fear and the Word." UTNE Reader May-June 2004.
  

• "Hymn for the Unsung." openDemocracy.net 20 Mar 2003.
  

• Chile: The Other September 11.
  

• "Lessons of a Catastrophe." The Nation 30 Sept 2003. (Archived at Dorfman's homepage. Available here with registration.)
  

• "Exiled writer urges Pinochet to Repent." BBC News 22 Oct 1998.
  

• "Writing in the Deep South." UNISA Latin American Report 15.1 (1999). 4-7. (PDF.)

 

 

Poems

• “Love Letter to Sarajevo from New York After a Thousand and One Days and Nights of Siege.”

• “Hammurabi, the Exalted Prince Who Made Great the Name of Babylon…”

• “Christopher Columbus has words from the other side of death for Captain John Whyte...”

• “Pablo Picasso Has Words for Colin Powell from the Other Side of Death.”

Film

• A Promise to the Dead. (2008.)

• Ariel Dorfman at Internet Movie Database. (Film and television appearances.)

Multimedia

• Madres Coraje. Un homenaje a las Madres de Plaza de Mayo (2007).

• Dorfman discusses Blake's Therapy with Charlie Rose (1 Jun 2001).

• Dorfman discusses Augusto Pinochet's house arrest on Charlie Rose 13 Dec 2004.

• "In the Footsteps of September 11, 1973." Multimedia interview with extensive video.

• Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980-2004. Seven Stories Press, 2004.
  

• Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark. Seven Stories Press, 2004.
  

• Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North. National Geographic Books, 2004.
  

• The Burning City (with Joaquin Dorfman). Doubleday (UK), 2003.
  

• Konfidenz. Dalkey Archive, 2003. (Reprinted from 1995 with new introduction by Andrei Codrescu.)
  

• Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet. Seven Stories Press, 2002. (Translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish.)

• In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002.

• Blake's Therapy. Seven Stories Press, 2001. Published simultaneously in Spanish as Terapia: una novela. Siete Cuentos Editorial, 2001.
  

• The Nanny and the Iceberg. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
  

• Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
  

• The Resistance Trilogy. Nick Hern Books Limited, 1998.

Dancing Shadows

• “Musical Dancing Shadows.” Seoul Selection. 03 July 2007.

• “Dancing Shadows.” EricWoolfsonMusic.com. (includes photos from the Seoul production.) 2007.

• “Dancing Shadows.” (in English and Korean). DancingShadows.co.kr. 2007.

Death and the Maiden

• “Dorfman Turns ‘Death and the Maiden’ into an Opera.” By David Ng. LosAngelesTimes.com 19 Sept 2008

• “Dorfman sätter ord på vår tids tragedy.” By Ulf Clarén. Sydvansken.se 18 Sept 2008

• “Death and the Maiden.” Internet Movie Database aggregated reviews of the 1994 film.

• “Death and the Maiden: A Political Fable in Thriller’s Clothing.” By Caryn James. New York Times. 23 Dec 1994.

• “Death and the Maiden.” Internet Broadway Database.

Heading South, Looking North

• Weiner, Eileen. “Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman: Torn Between Two Languages” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 21 June 1998.
  

• Brink, André. "Splendid Schizophrenia of a Lingual Bigamist: Book Review of Heading South, Looking North." UNISA Latin American Report 15.1 (1999): 75-76. PDF.

The Other Side

• “War Changes the Borders, and Even the Beds are Divided.” By Charles Isherwood. New York Times. 14 Dec 2005.

Picasso's Closet

• “Dorfman Limns a Tangle of Ethics in ‘Picasso.’” By John Barry. The Washington Post. 30 June 2006: WE22.

• “Telling the Truth through Lies.” By Fiona Morgan. Indyweek.com 19 Feb 2003.

A Promise to the Dead

• “A New Documentary Draws Stark Parallels Between Chile Under Pinochet and the Post-9/11 ‘War on Terror.’” By Sophia McClennen. Alternet.org 17 May 2008.

• Human Rights Watch Film Festival premiere

• Human Rights Watch Blog Post on A Promise to the Dead.

• "Toronto Film Fest Entry Looks at Ariel Dorfman's Return to Chile." By Joan Dupont. International Herald Tribune20 Sept 2007.

• "Ariel Dorfman Keeps 'A Promise to the Dead.'" By Andy Johnson. CTV.ca. 8 Sept 2007

• "Courage to Bear Witness to Man's Infinite Cruelties." By Stephen Holden. New York Times 13 June 2008.

• Website on A Promise to the Dead. ITVS.com

Purgatorio

• “Q&A with Ariel Dorfman: Exploring ‘Human Nuance’ in the Area of Theater.” By Misha Berson. Seattle Times. Nov 2005.

• “Purgatorio.” By Michael Billington. The Guardian. 21 Jan 2008.

Reader

• “‘Reader’: A Play by Ariel Dorfman.” By Anna Bruce-Lockhart. YourLondonMyLondon.com 28 Apr 2007.

Speak Truth to Power

• “Out of the Darkness.” By Bob Herbert. New York Times. 15 Jan 2005. (Review of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Performance at Ebenezer Baptist Church.)

• “Speaking Truth to Power: Art Answers Atrocity.” By Philip Tinari. Duke Magazine 87.2 (Jan-Feb 2001).

Widows

• “The Women Who Protest Deaths of Man After Man.” By Charles Isherwood. New York Times. 21 Jan 2008.

• “Widows.” By Martin Denton. NYTheatre.com. 17 Jan 2008.

• “Ariel Dorfman’s Widows.” By Angela Ashman. The Village Voice. 15 Jan 2008.

 

 

• Bennetts, Leslie. "Ariel Dorfman, Agonized Exile, Writes to Fight." New York Times 14 Apr 1988.

• McClennen, Sophia A. “Chilex: The Economy of Transnational Media Culture.” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 3.1-2 (1999): 48 paragraphs. 17 May 2004.

• McClennen, Sophia A. “Ariel Dorfman.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 20.3 (2000). (Registration required for access.)

• Munro, Andrew. “Recalling Voice: La muerte y la doncella.” Ciberletras 6 (2002).