A program devoted to the Palindrome, in words and phrases, in art and in music.

Join us for the best of this week's Books and Arts.

In an extended conversation with Sarah Kanowski, Irish novelist Marian Keyes speaks with great candour about storytelling in Ireland, her writing life, and her experiences with depression.

This month’s Latin American Book Club novel is Jennifer Clement’s Prayers for the Stolen about the brutal treatment of women by drug cartels in rural Mexico.

American Nigerian author Teju Cole talks about photography and how he sees the world through his camera lens, a new exhibition takes the form of a flow of images in which the photos echo and mirror each other, and we meet Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Fiona Mozley and discuss her novel Elmet.

Sports Writers Festival with Francis Leach and Angela Pippos, Jay Emmanuel's one man show Maa, Australian author Morris Gleitzman on Maybe the latest in his Felix Series and Michael Robotham with his Top Shelf.

Impersonal Space is a new play about a young girl on the autism spectrum and is directed and performed by actors with autism, the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan's latest novel Manhattan Beach, actor, director and playwright Peter Houghton shares what's on his Top Shelf and Richard Flanagan's new novel, First Person, a meditation on the thin line between truth and lies, memoir and fiction.

Join us for the best of this week's Books and Arts.

We speak to Patricia Piccinini who is one of the many artists represented in The National Gallery of Australia's new show Hyper Real, and Indian Canadian writer Anosh Irani reveals the real life stories behind his latest novel, The Parcel, about the sex trafficking trade in Bombay.

Australian artist Tim Storrier has taken out the 2017 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for his portrait of fellow artist McLean Edwards, for the Liveworks Festival at Sydney's Carriageworks Nat Randall recreates a scene from a 1977 film by the American director John Cassavetes and as Holden's last car plant in Australia closes we consider the artistic legacy of the Holden.