The world around us offers so little hope and humanity that you look for it even more desperately in fictional worlds. That's how popular Israeli author Etgar Keret approaches his collection of short stories, Autocorrect. He calls it the most post-apocalyptic and optimistic at the same time.

The characters in Keret's short stories teeter on the edge of reality - strange conversations, unpredictable interventions of technology or moments full of existential questions.

The stories were written in years filled with challenges, whether global - a period of pandemic or personal - the loss of the author's mother. In them, Keret captures the uncertainty and fragility of the contemporary world, full of misunderstandings and misinterpretations, but also finds reasons for hope.