The Israeli writer Etgar Keret has talked to NPR about the importance of stories in a time of war. Keret tells Scott Detrow why he recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about the need for a ...

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center It seems unlikely to have two Dutch filmmakers behind “Etgar ...

Israeli writer Etgar Keret, whose latest short story collection, Suddenly, a Knock at the Door, is out today, is masterful at a genre—flash fiction—that has little to recommend it. Defined as stories ...

The first time I interviewed Etgar Keret about one of his short story collections, he told me that fiction helped him make sense of a crazy world. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) ETGAR KERET: It ...

Sometimes fiction can help us see the world more clearly than the news can. And since the war started, I've been thinking about the fiction writer Etgar Keret. He's a beloved Israeli author of short ...

Etgar Keret has been called the Kafka, the Vonnegut, the Woody Allen of Israel. He’s with us. Etgar Keret (Moshe Shai) Etgar Keret writes stories so short and weird and wonderful they make you stop ...

The short story and essay writer on war, parenthood and the difficulties faced by the Israeli left The title of the Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s new collection of essays, The Seven Good Years, comes ...

Between the birth of his son Lev and the death of his father — the eponymous seven good years — Etgar Keret seems to have spent much of his time traveling from Tel Aviv to book fairs, festivals and ...

The first thing you should know about the critically-adorned, bestselling writer Etgar Keret is that he is a liar. Keret’s friends and family, including the great American novelist Jonathan Franzen, ...

As Israeli writer Etgar Keret waited for his son to be born, victims of a terrorist attack were being brought into the same hospital. "The idea that you bring your son into a world in which he can be ...