Following upon the publication of his stunning fictionalized memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, in 2002 Oz has written two hauntingly beautiful collections of inter-related short stories, Scenes From Village Life (about a sleepy, yet hardly serene, village in the north of Israel) and, most recently, “Between Friends,” in which Oz returns to the kibbutz where his literary career – and adult life – began:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/amos-oz-makes-room-for-his-loneliness-1.418823

http://forward.com/articles/184502/journeying-back-to-the-land-of-amos-oz/

A summary of the main points from my new book, Jews and the Military: A History (Princeton University Press, 2013)

http://hnn.us/article/153291