In Haaretz Eilat Negev considers The thin line between fiction and autobiography in Israeli novels, noting that:
In the hundreds of interviews I have conducted with writers in Israel and around the world, I have realized each time anew that a novel is a covert report in which the author has embedded the significant keys to his life.The piece is occasioned by Nitza Ben-Dov's new book, 'Written Lives: On Israeli Literary Autobiographies', and apparently:
Nitza Ben-Dov sees the trend of autobiographical novels as a symptom of the culture of self-exposure in which we live.