Selection Day by Aravind Adiga . Book to Film: High-Rise. The Word: Rise of the Slam Poets. Emma Viskic: Resurrection Bay. Top Shelf: Ryan O'Neill.

John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Ballet, on his creation, Najinski; Rami Be'er on The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, one of the world's most dynamic ensembles; Norman Jorgensen & Dub Leffler talk children's writing and illustration at the Kimberley Writers Festival; and a ceramics exhibition at The Jam Factory in Adelaide.

The MAMA gallery in Albury NSW revs up for its Speed exhibition, celebrating 200 years of Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens with Florilegium an exhibition of botanical art, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith on her memoir and writer Briohny Doyle's Top Shelf.

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Selection Day by Aravind Adiga . The rise of cults in YA fiction. Story City.

Multimodal is a performance piece that incorporates dance, the audience, sound and smell; American writer Colson Whitehead's novel tells the story of the secret underground railroad system which freed slaves, multiple crime fiction awards winner Emma Viskic talks about her novel Resurrection Bay, and The Visceral Landscape explores the relationship between climate and the environment in south-west Western Australia.

Ann Turner's Out of the Ice . The Crime Writer.

Books and Arts takes you to the Melbourne Writers Festival for a feisty conversation with four brilliant writers - all of whom are women! American author Angela Flournoy, Indian writer Rosalyn D'Mello, and Australian writers Emily Maguire and Celeste Liddle come together to explore questions of gender and identity, and discuss what it means to be writing as a woman today.

We Need New Names by Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo tells the story of Darling, a ten year-old girl growing up in the Shantytown of Paradise. It's the August novel in RN's African Book Club.

Booker winner DBC Pierre's how to guide, the International Board on Books for Young People congress, bestselling Liane Moriarty's latest novel and the Vinyl Frontier on strange recordings.

Celebrating 10 years of the Inky Awards, Alan Brough on his children's fiction, XuXi on being global Chinese and Lee Joon-Ik on the Korean Film Festival.