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This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the popular Israeli novelist, children's book author, and political commentator, Meir Shalev. His book, A Pigeon and a Boy, is a bestseller in America and a prize-winner in Israel. A Pigeon and a Boy is published by Schocken Books.

A.B. Yehoshua's roots go back five generations in Jerusalem. He is one of Israel's foremost novelists and an astute observer of Israeli life. In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, he discusses his provocative new novel, The Liberated Bride - begun in the optimism of the Oslo Accord and finished during the second Intifada.

WRITING A NATION: ISRAEL AT 50. Episode 1 of a 5-part series on the Authors of Israel, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. Part I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Israeli author Meir Shalev, who discusses the sometimes oppressive weight of history in the Holy Land, the life of the Zionists who first established Israel, and the self-mythologizing aspects of the country's settlers. Part II: Eleanor interviews S. Izhar, the grand old man of Israeli literature, who discusses the novel he wrote in…

WRITING A NATION - ISRAEL AT 50 - Episode 2 of a 5-part series on the Authors of Israel, as that country celebrates its 50th anniversary. Part I: Eleanor Wachtel interviews Israeli author Amos Elon, who discusses the messianic and idealistic motives of the Zionist settlers who came to Israel in 1948, the ideas of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, the defining characteristics of Israeli society, a hybrid culture made up of Jews from over 100 countries, and how Israel has two capitals…

Today, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel, Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of its most important and outspoken Authors - Amos Oz. His latest novel revisits that significant moment in the country's history and his own.