Most of Ariel Dorfman's work can be understood as an ongoing exploration of the many ways in which art intersects with human rights, culminating in the Kennedy Center play Voices from Beyond the Dark: the Speak Truth to Power Play. Themes that keep appearing in Dorfman's literary quest are Disappearances ( Widows, In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land, Censorship (Reader), Torture (Death and the Maiden), Dictatorship (Exorcising Terror), Exile (Heading South, Looking North) and Globalization (Blake's Therapy), Ariel Dorfman has also been engaged with these issues as a public intellectual, in Speeches (UN General Assembly) Journalism and through his work with Human Rights Organizations like Amnesty, Index on Censorship and Human Rights Watch.