Author Siri Hustvedt on art, sex and the mind; Artist Tanya Schultz, who has used 450 kilograms of coloured sugar in her latest installation; Bernard Schlink, author of The Reader, has a new novel called The Woman on the Stairs; and a new documentary  documents the rise, fall, and return of the Royal Ballet's youngest ever principal, Sergei Polunin.

It's our last live show for 2016 and we're doing it in style with an extravaganza!

Melinda Harvey, Sisonke Msimang, and Paul Williams discuss J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace.

Peter Manning on the life and art of Janet Venn-Brown; Tony Burke, Shadow Minister for the Arts, talks parallel imports; Ben Juniper restores the artwork of his father, Robert Juniper; and Bernhard Schlink discusses The Woman on the Stairs.

Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin; Crossing Boundaries new writing from Indonesia with 'Five Ringgit' by Nyoman Manda; classicist Peter Jones on what the Romans really gave us (hint, lots of latin words).

US writer Siri Hustvedt on art, sex and the mind, Australian writers Arnold Zable and Alice Bishop on trauma and recovery, and TC Boyle's novel The Terranauts.

Carolyn Cocca takes a long hard look at Wonder Woman and Princess Leia, as she argues the case for more and more diverse Superwomen; three debut writers discuss the journey to getting published for the first time: Julie Koh, Jenniffer Livett and Rajith Savanadasa; and the latest in our Crossing Boundaries anthology of Indonesian short stories.

Acclaimed biographer, Frances Wilson, on the life and influence of the extraordinary English essayist Thomas De Quincey; Artist Tanya Schultz on using 450 kilograms of coloured sugar in her latest installation, and academic Peter Holbrook on the genius of Shakespeare.

Versailles comes to Canberra in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, we hear from Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez about his novel Reputations, and travel beyond the Vinyl Frontier with ABC sound librarians James Lee and Michael Munson.

Amanda Gardiner, Sarah Elson and Helen Seiver on The Spaces Between Us, an art exhibition inspired by infanticide; Mother's Heaven by Fitrawan Umar - the latest story in the Crossing Boundaries anthology; Three debut authors - Julie Koh, Jenniffer Livett and Rajith Savanadasa - on the experience of being published; and in Expressions of Interest we look at the bawdy original versions of some well known nursery rhymes.