From Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, a conversation with the award-winning Nigerian writer Helon Habila.

Paul Kelly on Shakespeare.

Paul Beatty's novel The Sellout took out the Man Booker Prize for 2016. For the Best of Books and Arts, we discuss whether it was a deserving winner, and hear from the author himself. We also bring you the next in our Crossing Boundaries: New Voices from Indonesia short story anthology, and a chat with Sydney scientific illustrator Lindsay Marshall.

Cry, The Beloved Country, the 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton is this month's title for our African Book Club.

We find out what constitutes 'experimental' art at Liveworks Festival in Sydney, take a visit to Afrohub - a new cultural hub celebrating Melbourne's African diaspora - and hear a story from RN's anthology of Indonesian short stories, Crossing Boundaries: New Voices from Indonesia.

We speak with Man Booker prize winner Paul Beatty about The Sellout, head to Sydney for the inaugural Festival Fatale of Australian women in theatre, and find out what makes Game of Thrones so popular.

Israeli writer Etgar Keret speaks with Michael Cathcart at the Perth Writers Festival about his memoir The Seven Good Years.

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota's Absent Bodies at Melbourne Festival, American National Book Award nominee Karan Mahajan on The Association of Small Bombs, science illustrator Lindsay Marshall and Booker shortlisted novelist Deborah Levy on Hot Milk.

We launch Crossing Boundaries: New Voices from Indonesia, RN's new anthology of Indonesian short stories, head to Western Australia to hear about Kaya, a dance work by Ochre Contemporary Dance Company, and chat with Australian illustrator Robert Ingpen.

Tim Winton's latest book, The Boy Behind the Curtain, is a collection of true stories, about his life and the things that matter to him - his family, the ocean, human kindness and books.