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

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"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 stories and other writings. His work can be absurd, fantastical and poetic.

I got to visit him at the apartment in a leafy neighborhood of Tel Aviv where he lives with his wife and a white rabbit named Hanzo.

"He's a protection rabbit," Keret jokingly tells me. "He's always alert. And, you know, he's like a Rottweiler.""