The evolution of feelings in Western literature since the medieval period, a comprehensive show of artist Vernon Ah Kee's work which tackles racism in Australia head on, artist TextaQueen on what favourite artists inspire her works and Paul Robeson was one of the most famous actors in Hollywood - what brought his glittering career undone?

Academic and writer Jacqueline Rose argues that it’s time for a scandalous, untamed feminism, in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival.

A conversation with Irish author Sebastian Barry about his Costa award winning novel, Days Without End and Jazz legend Carla Bley’s journey from cocktail pianist to celebrated composer.

Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye makes connections between places and people that seem beyond connection, YA author Randa Abdel-Fattah reveals her love for The Babysitters Club and why the power of stories and diverse representation in Australian literature matters more than ever and Girt by Sea, an exhibition of artwork by people who are intellectual disabled.

Richard Hamblyn traces the cultural significance of clouds, South Australian artist Christopher Orchard on drawing and the human form and actor, dancer and choreographer Noel Tovey reflects on his 8 decades.

Pulitzer prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen's collection of short stories about what it means to be a refugee in America, Richard J Frankland and the Letter String Quartet perform songs and stories from their 2017 NAIDOC week concert and a conversation with Cayce Zavaglia, an artist who takes needlepoint to a whole new level.

The maverick Australian director Barrie Kosky on his opera of George Frideric Handel's Saul, which was the centrepiece of the 2017 Adelaide Festival, Andrew Bovell reflects on his long career as a playwright and screenwriter and author Bernadette Brennan on the first full length literary study of acclaimed Australian author, Helen Garner.

Australian writer Tony Birch's vivid short story collection Common People, the work of Singaporean novelist and playwright Wong Souk Yee, Alanna Mitchell's stage adaptation of her best-selling novel about the health of the world's oceans - Sea Sick and John Boyne's latest novel The Heart’s Invisible Furies tells the life story of a gay man in Ireland, stretching from the end of the Second World War to the 1995 Referendum on Marriage Equality.

Pulitzer prize-winning American poet Sharon Olds on her Odes to the body, Music legend Paul Kelly and Irish performer Camille O’Sullivan performed songs from their project Ancient Rain and a twenty-five year retrospective of conceptual artist Brook Andrew.

Acclaimed short story writer George Saunders' debut novel, a national initiative that provides long-term residencies for Australian composers to make work in historic houses around Australia and Bruce Springsteen is one of the biggest names in rock music, but what keeps him - and his fans - so enthusiastic?