Check out Dorfman's Blog at The Guardian's Comment is Free Page!

Primary Resource Pages: Ariel Dorfman’s homepage. Ariel Dorfman. Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico. Ed. José Luis Gómez-Martínez. A very complete site dedicated to his non-fiction. Written in Spanish. Deadly Politics: Salvaging Memories in Santiago Article by Patrick Adams in for Duke Magazine ***Includes a multimedia interview with Dorfman as he retraces his footsteps from September 11, 1973. Ariel Dorfman on Encyclopedia.com Ariel Dorfman on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Ariel Dorfman at The Columbia Encyclopedia Dorfman — at Doollee.com The Playwrights Database. Robert A. Lauer’s Dorfman Site contains a short biography and list of works as well as commentary and bibliography on Death and the Maiden (Spanish language website). "Trials And Tribulations Of Ariel Dorfman" at Essays.com Ariel Dorfman at All Refer Encyclopedia Las obras de Ariel Dorfman Bibliografía de Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden Study Guide at eNotes.com literature-map: Ariel Dorfman What else do readers of Dorfman read? Ariel Dorfman Resource page in Spanish, Español IV, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA Jaggi, Maya. “Speaking for the Dead” Guardian June 14, 2003. 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.

Critical Essays Available on-line:

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 < http://eserver.org/clogic/3-1%262/mcclennen.html >.

McClennen, Sophia A. “Ariel Dorfman.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 20.3 (2000)  (registration required for access) http://static.highbeam.com/t/thereviewofcontemporaryfiction/september222000/arieldorfman/ 

Munro, Andrew. “Recalling Voice: La muerte y la doncella.” Ciberletras 6 (2002). 12 June 2004.

Some of Dorfman’s Recent Books:

• 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, January, 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)
• The Nanny and the Iceberg.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January, 1999.
• Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey.  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
• The Resistance Trilogy.  Nick Hern Books Limited, 1998.

Some Dorfman texts available on-line (many more are available through his home page)

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.”

Essays:

• "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." 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.]

Interviews:

• "Deadly Politics: Salvaging Memories in Santiago." By Patrick Adams. Duke Magazine 91.5 (Sept.-Oct. 2005).

• "In the Footsteps of September 11, 1973." **Multimedia Interview with Extensive Video.

• American ID: Choice. Ariel Dorfman reflects on American identity. A multimedia website for PBS's POV documentary series.  With videos directed by Rodrigo Dorfman.

• Melinda Penkava talks with Ariel Dorfman about his new book, “Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations, 1980-2004″ (Seven Stories/2004). Audio interview (WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio) 30 Aug. 2004.

• Palabra del lector Ariel Dorfman en Libro Libre Chile.

• The Connection.org: Chilean Writer Ariel Dorfman Audio Interview. (WBUR, Chicago.)

• "Ariel Dorfman Interview." By Danny Postel. The Progressive (Dec. 1998).

• "Interview with Ariel Dorfman." By Sophia A. McClennen. Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture 15 (2004).

• “Ariel Dorfman’s Literary World.” By Sophia A. McClennen. World Literature Today 78, nos. 3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 2004): 64-67. Subscription required.

• Interview at Democracy Now

• Entrevista con Angel Berlanga

• Audio Interview and Fiction Reading

• Ariel Dorfman on Memory and truth

• Interview: Professor Ariel Dorfman of Duke University talks about the history of the Chilean ship Esmeralda (All Things Considered (NPR))

• "Telling The Truth Through Lies." By Fiona Morgan. The Independent Weekly [Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill] 19 Feb. 2003.

• Las tensiones de un exiliado en el imperio. (Entrevista: Ariel Dorfman.) By Andres Hax. In Clarín. Revista Ñ. 10 Feb. 2005.

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