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My own dire prophecies failed to adequately predict the future and today I see Trump as someone far more terrifying
Ariel Dorfman
Born in Buenos Aires on May 6, 1942, Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, plays, operas, musicals, poems, journalism and essays in both Spanish and English.
His most recent books are the novels Darwin’s Ghosts and Cautivos, as well as the children’s story, The Rabbits’ Rebellion. He contributes regularly to major newspapers and magazines around the world and is active in the defense of human rights.
If the mainly peaceful Chilean people do manage such a seemingly intractable task — bridging the abyss between recalcitrant protesters and a fearful elite clinging to power — this deepening of democracy might show other nations a way to deal with similar divisions
Staying in Santiago, Chile, at the moment, I see echoes and reflections of Cleo – the servant at the heart of Alfonso Cuarón’s wondrous film Roma – everywhere
My close encounter with Bush at a Sydney hotel revealed a patrician arrogance whose days were numbered
Humans as “Animals,” Then and Now
Where are the presidents who welcome destitute refugees with open arms despite the most virulent slander against them?
Faraway, I was faraway from Washington D.C. that hot day in August of 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words
On Burning Books But Not Ideas
It is the compassionate imagination that we now desperately need at this dire moment of revelation, so that none of us will ever dare to justify, out of fear or out of expedience, cruelty that is inflicted upon our fellow humans
The River Kwai Passes Through Latin America and Washington