Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for the PEN New England-L.L. Winship Prize. Her fiction, poetry, essays, art criticism, and translations have appeared in BOMB, Tri-Quarterly, Agni, Salmagundi, Les temps modernes, El Viejo topo, in volumes published by the major museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, and in many other journals and anthologies. Her play translations have been performed in theaters in New York and London, and for the BBC. Since 2002, Marguerite Feitlowitz has been a professor of literature at Bennington College. She is currently working on an original novel
Marguerite Feitlowitz
Articles by Marguerite Feitlowitz
Friday August 18
The Shadow World of a ‘Dirty War’
WASHINGTON—The gray-haired Caucasian woman. The five men in black whose black masks had openings only for their eyes. The older man, graying at the temples. The young woman with shoulder-length blond hair. Who are these individuals who, according to testimony reported in The New York Times on July 7, are players in the “shadow world”
Tuesday December 6
The Torturer General
It seems surreal: The president’s nominee for the highest legal position in the land is a proponent of torture. In his notorious Jan. 25, 2002, memorandum to Bush, Alberto Gonzales clearly fancies himself a shrewd thinker, a smooth operator when it comes to finessing the inevitable outrage of our allies when they learn that we