The seemingly familiar Terra Nullius. Jenny Watson: suburban girl to feminist punk. 2017 John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers. The wonders of the recorder.

Latin American Book Club: The Story Of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli.

The birth of the Western Desert art movement. US author Angie Thomas on her powerful novel The Hate U Give. Jack Sorensen: balladeer, boxer, shearer, soldier.

Florien Zeller's The Father at STC. Take Three Girls, a novel by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell and Fiona Wood. Poet of the week: Shastra Deo. Book to film adaptation: The Lost City of Z.

Joyce Carol Oates' Melbourne Writers Festival keynote: Bearing Witness

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

We meet American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who grew up between the Midwest and the West Bank, and novelist, journalist and essayist Álvaro Enrigue, who imagines history as a wild tennis game where ideas made of human hair are batted back and forth across an ocean of ideas.

We discover the haute couture fashion of Christian Dior, which is about to go on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, meet Andrew Tresidder and Shea MacDonough from Rollercoaster Theatre company and Canadian cellist Cris Derksen, and journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier with

songs that celebrate and evoke Australian places.

We revisit the life of Morris West, one of Australia's most successful writers, meet a group of musicians mixing traditional indigenous music with electronic beats, speak with American poet Joy Harjo, and explore the Miles Franklin shortlisted novel Waiting by Philip Salom.

Robert Drewe's new novel Whipbird. A day at the Darwin Festival. Fred Williams in the You Yangs, Geelong Gallery. Top Shelf: Brodie Lancaster.