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Books

1. A. Dorfman and Joaquin Dorfman. Burning City.  Random House Children's Books, June, 2005. Previously published in the UK.
2. A. Dorfman. Mascara.  Seven Stories Press, September, 2004. Reprint, with new afterward by J.M. Coetzee
3. A. Dorfman. Mascara.  Seven Stories Press, August, 2004. reprint
4.  Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North.  National Geographic Books, January, 2004. Memorias del desierto, National Geographic Latitudes, 2004
5.  Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark.  Seven Stories Press, 2004.
6.  Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations, 1980-2004.  Seven Stories Press, 2004.
7. Ariel Dorfman. The Burning City (with Joaquin Dorfman).  Doubleday (UK), Summer, 2003.
8.  The Burning City (with Joaquin Dorfman).  Doubleday (UK), 2003.
9.  Konfidenz.  Dalkey Archive, 2003. (reprinted from 1995 with new introduction by Andrei Codrescu)
10. Ariel Dorfman. Konfidenz.  Dalkey Archive, 2003. (reprint from 1995 edition with new introduction by Andrei Codrescu)
11.  Exordising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet.  Seven Stories Press, 2002. (translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish)
12. Ariel Dorfman. Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet.  Seven Stories Press, 2002. (Translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish) [edu]
13. A. Dorfman. In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land (poetry).  Duke University Press, 2002.
14. A. Dorfman. Blake's Therapy.  Seven Stories Press, 2001.
15. A. Dorfman. The Rabbit's Rebellion.  Transworld, 2001.
16.  The Nanny and the Iceberg.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January, 1999.
17.  Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey.  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
18. A. Dorfman. Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. (paperback, Penguin, 1999)
19. A. Dorfman. The Resistance Trilogy.  Nick Hern Books Limited, 1998.
20.  The Resistance Trilogy.  Nick Hern Books Limited, 1998.
21. A. Dorfman. Widows (play).  Nick Hern Books Limited, 1997.
22. A. Dorfman. Reader.  Nick Hern Books, London, 1995.
23. A. Dorfman. Konfidenz.  Farrar, Straus and giroux, 1995. (paperback, Vintage, 1996; reissued with new introduction by Andrei Codrescu, Dalkey Archive, 2003)
24. A. Dorfman. Death and the Maiden.  Fireside Book Club, main selection, Penguin, 1992.
25. A. Dorfman. Some Write To The Future.  Duke University Press, 1991. (paperback, 1992)
26. A. Dorfman. Hard Rain (novel).  Readers International, 1991. (hardback and paperback)
27. A. Dorfman. My House Is On Fire (stories).  Viking-Penguin, 1990. (paperback, King Penguin, 1991)
28. A. Dorfman. Mascara.  Viking-Penguin, 1988. (paperback, Penguin, 1990)
29. A. Dorfman. Last Waltz in Santiago.  Viking-Penguin, 1988. (paperback, King Penguin, 1988)
30. A. Dorfman. The Last Song of Manuel Sendero.  Viking, 1987. (paperback, King Penguin, 1988)
31. A. Dorfman. Widows (novel).  Pantheon Books, New York, 1983. (paperback Vintage-Aventura, 1984; new paperback, King Penguin, 1989; Seven Stories Press, 2002)
32. A. Dorfman. The Empire's Old Clothes.  Pantheon Books, New York, 1983. (paperback, Pantheon Books, 1984; new paperback, Penguin, 1996)
33. A. Dorfman. Missing.  Amnesty International, London, 1982.
34. A. Dorfman with Armand Mattelart. How to Read Donald Duck.  International General, London, 1975.

Book in Progress

1. A. Dorfman. Americanos. TBA.

Articles Accepted in Journal

1. A. Dorfman. "Juegos de la memoria." El Pais  (October 31, 2005). Reprinted in Pagina Doce
2. A. Dorfman. ""Sube a Nacer conmigo"." Pen America: Metamorphoses 3 (2005): 122-124.
3. A. Dorfman. ""William Blake has Words from the Other Side of Death for Laura Bush"." The Liberal IV (April/May 2005): 40-41.
4. A. Dorfman. ""Footnotes to a Double Life"." The Genius of Language  (2005): 206-217.
5. A. Dorfman. ""The Piper of Our Times." Der Einstein-Komplex  (2005): 22-26.
6. A. Dorfman. "Echoes of King's dream ring true in Chile." San Francisco Chronicle  (1-16-2005).
7. A. Dorfman. "Chilean writer brings his plays to the world." Santiago Times  (2-8-2005).
8. A. Dorfman. "En memoria de Arthur Miller: la muerte de un fabulador." El Pais  (2-13-2005).
9. A. Dorfman. "Los cincos minutes de John Paul II." El Pais  (4-7-2005). Reprinted in Le Monde
10. A. Dorfman. "Adieu to a Philosopher: Remembering Sartre." Los Angeles Times  (4-11-05).
11. A. Dorfman. "Love Song for London." Washington Post  (7-9-2005).
12. A. Dorfman. "An Einstein Strings Theory." Los Angeles Times  (8-16-2005). Reprinted as "El violinista en el tejado del cosmos" in El Pais, 9/5/05.
13. A. Dorfman. "A Morse Code for 2006." OpenDemocracy.net  (12-22-06). Reprinted in Spanish, Pagina Doce [net]
14. A. Dorfman. "Juegos de la memoria: Las elecciones en Estados Unidos." El Pais  (October 31, 2004).
15. A. Dorfman. "Brainy Candidates Need Not Apply." Los Angeles Times  (October 22, 2004).
16. A. Dorfman. "My Friend, the Super Man." The Observer (London)  (October 17, 2004). also appeared in El Pais and the Duke Dialogue
17. A. Dorfman. "La inteligencia de Kerry." L'Unita  (October 3, 2004). reprinted in Le Monde and El Pais
18. A. Dorfman. "Martin Luther King, Jr: A Latin American Perspective." Peace is Possible: Voices of the Second Superpower  (October, 2004): 251-260.
19. A. Dorfman. "Why Chile is Hopeful." New York Times  (September 11, 2004).
20. A. Dorfman. "Yuxtaposiciones." El Pais  (September 8, 2004).
21. A. Dorfman. "Emergencias." El Pais  (August 13, 2004).
22. A. Dorfman. "The Black Hole." The Impossible Will Take a Little While  (August 1, 2004): 241-250.
23. A. Dorfman. "Footnotes to a Double Life." The Genius of Language  (July, 2004): 206-217.
24. A. Dorfman. "Are There Times When We Have to Accept Torture?." The Guardian (U.K.)  (May 8, 2004). Reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle and The Australian
25. A. Dorfman. "La question qu'Ivan Karamazov ne pose pas." Le Monde  (May 5, 2004). Reprinted in Italian in L'Unita, and in Spanish in El Pais
26. A. Dorfman. "Words that Pulse Among Madrid's Dead." Los Angeles Times  (March 21, 2004).
27. A. Dorfman. "Neruda frente al terror en Madrid." El Pais  (March 20, 2004). Wordt Vervolgd - 4/20/04
28. Ariel Dorfman. "Un almuerzo con Kerry." El Pais  (March 4, 2004).
29. A. Dorfman. "Fear and the Word." Utne Reader  (May/June 2004).

Introductions, Forewords, and Afterwords

Articles in a Journal

1. A. Dorfman. "Are there times when we have to accept torture?." South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association  (Spring, 2007).
2. A. Dorfman. "What Bush Missed in Chile." South Atlantic Quarterly 105:1 (Winter, 2006): 125-127.
3. A. Dorfman. "The Half-Life of a Despot." The New York Times  (12-12-06). El Pais, L'Unita, Pagina Doce, Liberation, FAZ
4. A. Dorfman. "Spitting on the Dead Dictator." Los Angeles Times  (12-17-06). Reprinted as "Good-bye to a Grandfather," "Un adios al abuelo," in Clarin, Expressen, Senkai
5. A. Dorfman. "Una llamada de auxilio para el año nuevo." El Pais  (1-5-2006).
6. A. Dorfman. "A Morse Code Signal for 2006." San Francisco Chronicle  (1-8-2006).
7. A. Dorfman. "It's No Joke Anymore." Los Angeles Times  (1-15-06). Adapted from keynote speech given at the annual MLA Convention on Dec. 27, 2005.
8. A. Dorfman. "Out of Fear." London Guardian  (3-18-2006).
9. A. Dorfman. "El caso del 'taliban chino'." El Pais  (4-20-06).
10. A. Dorfman. "Mission Akkomplished: Mayday for Comrade Bush." The New Statesman  (5-8-06).
11. A. Dorfman. "Waving the Star Spanglish Banner."  Read as radio commentary on Hispanic Communications Network Washington Post  (5-7-06). El Pais, Guardian
12. A. Dorfman. "Are We Really So Fearful?." Washington Post  (9-24-06). El Pais, Pagina Doce, Le Monde

Articles in a Collection

1. A. Dorfman. "Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language." How I Learned English Ed. Tom Miller. National Geographic Books, 2007, 217-220. Translated as "Rompiendo las fragiles barreras del lenguaje" in Como aprendí Inglés.
2. A. Dorfman. "The Missing and Photography: The Uses and Misuses of Globalization." Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death Ed. Jack Santino. FirstPalgrave Macmillan, April, 2006, 255-260.

Articles Online

1. A. Dorfman. "Homeland Security Ate my Speech." TomDispatch.com  (). 1-15-06
   <http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=49432>  Also appeared in Le Monde.
2. A. Dorfman. "The Struggle for America's Soul." TomDispatch.com  (October, 2004). October 27, 2004
   <http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1939>  reprinted in Mother Jones online

Book Reviews

1. A. Dorfman, "Destination: Chile, A Geography Gone Mad". Salon.com Literary Guide to the World  (8-21-06). [html]

Occasional Writing

1. A. Dorfman. "Goodbye to a Grandfather." Sekai :762 (March, 2007). Japanese translation from Los Angeles Times article printed in December 2006.
2. A. Dorfman. "Una semana con Gabo." El Pais  (3-13-07).
3. A. Dorfman. "Use What You Learned." The Chronicle of Higher Education  (05-04-2007).
4. A. Dorfman. "(Poem) William Blake has Words from the Other side of Death for Laura Bush." San Francisco Chronicle  (July 25, 2004). reprinted in El Pais

Interviews

1. J. Wynn Rousuck. "Playwright Dorfman puts a face on Torture." Baltimore Sun  (10-29-2006).
2. Neil Conan. "Picasso's Closet."  Radio interview on the opening of "Picasso's Closet" NPRs Talk of the Nation  (6-22-06).
3. Melinda Penkava. "Ariel Dorfman speaks about Purgatorio." WUNC The State of Things  (2-4-2005).
4. "Chilean writer brings his plays to the world." The Santiago Times  (2-8-2005).
5. "News Hour with Jim Lehrer." PBS  (4-29-2005).
6. "Two Dorfmans, one new novel." Durham Herald Sun  (5-27-2005).
7. "Father son team tell hard tale of youth." News and Observer  (5-29-2005).
8. Melinda Penkava. "Ariel and Joaquin Dorfman radio interview." WUNC State of Things  (6-1-2005).
9. Sally Plaskin. "Radio Interview." What's the Word?  (7-1-2005).
10. Pat Adams. "Salvaging Memories in Santiago." Duke Magazine  (September 2005). [available here]
11. "Interview about Gen. Augusto Pinochet." BBC The World Tonight  (10-14-2005).
12. Caridad Svich. "Subverting Narrative: An Interview with Ariel Dorfman." Contemporary Theatre Review  (October 2005).
13. Randy Gener. "War, Rape, Barbed Wire: Remember, It's a Comedy." The New York Times  (12-4-2005).

Translation of a Book

1. A. Dorfman, trans. Para além do medo.  Campo das Letras Editores S.A., November, 2004  Translation of "Exorcising Terror" into Portuguese
2. with Joaquin Dorfman, trans. Manhattan Macadam.  Editions Milan, Fall, 2004  French translation of "The Burning City"
3. A. Dorfman, trans. The Rabbits' Rebellion.  Ma'ariv Book Guild, September, 2004  Hebrew Translation

Other

1. A. Dorfman. "Purgatorio." Purgatorio  (October, 2006).
2. A. Dorfman. "Death and the Maiden."  Reading at the Royal Court Theatre as part of its 50th Anniversity celebration, honoring the most popular plays to have opened there.   (3-17-06).
3. A. Dorfman. "Picasso's Closet."   (6-25-06). [php]
4. A. Dorfman. "Death and the Maiden." Center Stage's Pearlstone Theatre in Baltimore  (opened 11/8/06).
5. A. Dorfman. "Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark." Ebenezer Baptist Church  (1-14-2005).
6. A. Dorfman. "Purgatorio." Seattle Repertory Theatre  (10-29-2005).
7. A. Dorfman. "The Other Side." Manhattan Theatre Club  (12-6-2005).
8. A. Dorfman. "Dancing with Shadows."   (TBA).
9. A. Dorfman. "The Other Side."   (April 12, 2004).
10. A. Dorfman. "Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark."   (October, 2000).
11. A. Dorfman. "Speak Truth to Power: Volices from Beyond the Dark."   (September, 2000).
12. A. Dorfman with Rodrigo Dorfman. "Konfidenz."   (2000).
13. co-written, Ariel Dorfman and Rodrigo Dorfman. "Dead Line."  based on poems from Ariel Dorfman's book Last Waltz in Santiago   (December, 1998).
14. A. Dorfman with Rodrigo Dofman. "Who' Who."   (1998).
15. co-directed by and co-written by Ariel Dorfman and Rodrigo Dorfman. "My House Is On Fire."  based on story written by Ariel Dorfman, a short film   (1997).
16. adapted by Rodrigo Dorfman and Ariel Dorfman. "Mascara, based on the novel of the same name."   (1996). 1998, Bonn
17. A. Dorfman and Rodrigo Dorfman. "Prisoners in Time, BBC teleplay."  worldwide 1995-96, starring John Hurt. 1995 Writer's Guild of Great Britain award for Best Feature Film (TV category)   (August, 1995).
18. A. Dorfman. "Reader."  performances in Denmark, Germany, England, Croatia, and Japan; in 2001, Spain and Mexico   (Summer, 1995).
19. co-written and co-produced by Ariel Dorfman. "Death and the Maiden, directed by Roman Polanski."  starring Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kinsgley, and Stuart Wilson, released worldwide 1995   (December, 1994).
20. A. Dorfman. "Death and the Maiden."  After a workshop production in Chile in March, 1991, the play had its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) in London in July 1991, and opened on Broadway in 1992. The play has been performed in more than 100 countries to date and is also used as a teaching tool in many classrooms in schools and universities in the United States, Canada and Europe. England: The Time Out award as Best Play of the Year and the Sir Lawrence Oliver Award as Best Play of the Year for 1991. Korea: 29th Dong Award for Best Play in 1992-93 theatrical season. Japan: 1999 award for Best Play in Translation.   (1991).
21. A. Dorfman. "Widows, based on the novel of the same name."  Adapted as a radioplay, BBC; Alternative Theatre Festival, Israel 1987; first prize. The Kennedy Center/American Express New Plays Award, 1988. New version, written with Tony Kushner, premiered main stage, Mark Taper Forum, 1991. Staged in Japan, Israel, Sri Lanka, Turkey, England, Scotland and Chile   (1988).

Reviews

Short Stories