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From Israel, writer Etgar Keret talks about the role of fiction in times of war

NPR | By Ari Shapiro,
Megan Lim, Courtney Dorning, Vincent Acovino
Published October 19, 2023 at 2:38 PM PDT

The writing read aloud by Etgar Keret in this piece was translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.

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