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Psychotherapist Esther Perel offers personal and professional insights and the complex science behind human interaction in modern relationships.

Actress, writer, neuroscientist and founder of GrokNation.com, Mayim Bialik shares what it means to grow from a girl to a woman biologically, psychologically and sociologically, from her new book Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular .

Novelist, essayist and short story writer Mary Gaitskill shares insights on a variety of topics ranging from pop culture and politics to dating and rape debates.

Executive Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Ronald Leopold discusses moral dilemmas in the appropriation of Anne Frank in representing a wide range of social and political causes.

Character actor, author and podcaster Stephen Tobolowsky shares stories about love, catastrophe and triumph from his new book My Adventures With God .

Writer and intersex activist Hida Viloria, whose new memoir is Born Both: An Intersex Life , discusses fighting for human rights and equality for intersex people everywhere, and embracing identity that doesn’t fit standard definitions of male or female.

David Mandel takes us inside Veep , the hottest comedy on television, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for which he is showrunner and executive producer. He also shares stories about writing for Saturday Night Live , Seinfeld , and Curb Your Enthusiasm .

Journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, Ariel Levy discusses her new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply , which tells the story of how she built an unconventional life and then watched it fall apart with astonishing speed.

Join us for a new series of community panels on the state of the nation, the challenges we will encounter, and how ordinary citizens can affect change, presented in partnership with the Women’s March of San Francisco.

Lion conservationist Craig Packer offers a timely, humorous and brutally honest account of lion behavior, ecology and conservation.