An absolute must-see: 92- year-old Auschwitz survivor and trauma psychologist comes to us to discuss one of the most compelling books we've read this year, which Desmond Tutu called "a gift to humanity." Sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay with the generous support of Eve Gordon-Ramek; in memory of Mayer Goldberg and Henry Ramek.

What has happened to civility and civic responsibility? What makes a good citizen in today's America? Reich makes a heartfelt call to a nation on the brink as he shows us how to do our part in saving America's soul.

The former president of the American Civil Liberties Union presents her book "HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship" — released for the first time at the festival in the home of the Free Speech Movement. Interviewed by the dean of UC Berkeley Law. Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design.

Drawing upon his 32 years as a writer and his 44 years as a traveler, Iyer will close the festival with a keynote illuminating the power of literature to create a world beyond walls. Iyer will then be interviewed by renowned literary critic John Freeman.

Together these writers, who have plumbed the topic of sexual assault deeply (and personally), will deconstruct the movement and explore its future. Sponsored by Zoetic Press.

A call for authenticity in life and literature: The author of the award-winning speculative feminist novel "The Book of Joan" and the hypnotic memoir "The Chronology of Water" and selfproclaimed "misfit" has penned a book, enhanced by interviews, called "The Misfit's Manifesto."

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Snyder and renowned science fiction writer and environmentalist Robinson climbed a mountain in the Sierras to christen it Mt. Thoreau. With their editor and publisher, they talk about civil disobedience, nature writing, the environmental movement, poetry and naming the unnameable. Sponsored by the Journal of Alta California.

This Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur awardee talks about the role of the writer in society, the importance of art to politics and the power of the written word. Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design.

Border-crossers and novelists Lesley Nneka Arimah ("What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky"), Laleh Khadivi ("A Good Country") and Pajtim Statovci ("My Cat Yugoslavia") contemplate a life between the lines. Sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange, and Finlandia Foundation National.

Susan Griffin celebrates the 40th anniversary reissue of her feminist classic "Woman and Nature."