Ethan Bronner talks with Amos Oz.
Now, as Israel prepares to mark his 70th birthday with a three-day festival in Arad and an academic conference at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, both in May, and with his latest novella coming out in English translation along with a new selection of translated fiction and nonfiction called 'The Amos Oz Reader,' he offers a way of viewing his two kinds of writing through a single lens. Both usher from the same source, he says — empathy. Both are about imagining the other. – from “Amos Oz, Approaching 70, Sees Israel With a Bird’s-Eye View,” by Ethan Bronner, The New York Times