Ariel Dorfman

Guardian of Memory

“We cannot tell the story if we do not recognize how the past changes as we try to seize and fix it.”

Defending Allende

The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet's coup approaches.

A Profusion of Poets

In Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra goes beyond his habitual minimalism to portray the chaotic commotion of today’s Chile.

The Futility of Censorship

Eric Berkowitz’s Dangerous Ideas focuses on heroes and heroines who refused to allow their freedom of expression to be extinguished.

Chile’s Bold Adventure in Democracy

Despite challenges and disputes aplenty, my country has embarked on a remarkable project: a truly popular debate about what sort of nation it should aspire to be.

A Taxonomy of Tyrants

Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Strongmen delineates what the last century's macho dictators have had in common.

Songs of Loss and Reinvention

Learning from the knowledge migrants and exiles have accumulated across the centuries.

Boccaccio Says Goodbye

It was in a different form that Death came to me eleven years later—and it is because of that experience that I will not repent of what I have written.

Pandemic Journal, April 6–12

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Verlyn Klinkenborg in East Chatham, Hugh Eakin in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Dalia Hatuqa in Amman, and more.

Chile: Notes from a Revolt

On April 26, a referendum will be held to determine if there will be a new Constitution. The hope is that the process will engage all of Chile in a discussion about what sort of country its people desire, channeling the energies of the protesters. It may not be an easy journey.

The Liar’s Truth

Who Killed Colombia?

Chile: Now More Than Ever

Juan Rulfo, Immortal Scribe

Though Juan Rulfo’s published work did not amount to much more than three hundred pages, those are “as durable,” Gabriel García Márquez said, “as the pages that have come down to us from Sophocles.”

The Guilt of Pope Francis

The pope saw in Bishop Juan Barros a reflection of his own experience: someone who believes he has been falsely indicted, but is unable to clear his name.

Walden on the Rocks

Thoreau believed that we, like Nature itself, can renew ourselves “completely each day.” If we listen to his voice, perhaps we can be encouraged, each of us, to discover that small way to contribute to a different sort of society.

Trump’s War on Knowledge

There has always been a disturbing strand of anti-intellectualism in American life, but never has an occupant of the White House exhibited such a toxic mix of ignorance and mendacity, such lack of intellectual curiosity and disregard for rigorous analysis.

Nuclear Apocalypse Now?

In President Trump’s UN speech he called the possibility of nuclear conflict “unthinkable.” On the contrary, we must think about it.

An Open Letter to the United Nations, President Clinton, and the Congress

Against Loans to Chile