Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

In 2011 his play "Purgatorio" has its Spanish language premiere at the Teatro Español in Madrid starring Viggo Mortensen and Carme Elias. His thesis on the absurd in plays of Harold Pinter was publiAriel Dorfmand in Spanish as El absurdo entre cuatro paredes: el teatro de Harold Pinter (The absurd within four walls: the theater of Harold Pinter) by Editorial Universitaria in Santiago Chile in 1968 (124 pages). Konfidenz (Konfidenz 1994) New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1994
Reader drama Nick Hern Books London 1995
Heading South Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (Rumbo al Sur deseando el Norte 1998) New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1999 ISBN 0-14-028253-X
The Nanny and the Iceberg (La Nana y el Iceberg 1999) New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1999
The Resistance Trilogy (Death and the Maiden Widows Reader) Nick Hern Books Limited 1998
Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet (Más allá del miedo: El largo adiós a Pinochet 2002) Seven Stories Press 2002 ISBN 1-58322-542-0
Blake’s Therapy Seven Stories Press in New York 2001 (Terapia)
In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages (2002)
Other Septembers Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980-2004 (2004) (Otros septiembres)
Manifesto for Another World: Voices from Beyond the Dark.

A citizen of the United States since 2004 he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University in Durham North Carolina since 1985.