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So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps…
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.
For the last decade, I have been haunted by voices from the other side of death. In this way, back in 2003…
Amnesty USA recently asked me, along with nine others, to write a letter to President Obama asking him to prosecute all those…
On December 27th, at 11:31 in the morning to be precise, agents of the Homeland Security Department detained me at Miami International…
[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt: As Ariel Dorfman wrote in an essay collected in his new book Other Septembers, Many Americas, sometime before…
Far away. I was far away from Washington, D.C. that hot day in August of 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
Yes, even here, here more than anywheremore than beforewe know and we see what happenswhat you are doingto the world we have…
You gave me, an americano from the Latino South, this language of love that I return to you Ariel Dorfman Sunday September…