Celebrating the life and times of one of Australia's most influential theatre groups, the Australian Performing Group, more commonly known as the Pram Factory. What were its aims and how has it influenced generations of theatre performers?

For this month's Murder Monday, we explore the criminal mind at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival.

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Fiona Wright's new collection of poetry Domestic Interior, Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall on writing original music for Muriel's Wedding the Musical, RN's The Music Show presenter Andrew Ford reveals what was his best read for 2017, American novelist Alice McDermott's novel The Ninth Hour, and Elizabeth Tynan discusses her Prime Minister's Literary Award for Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story.

Australian author and Miles Franklin winner Alexis Wright has been named the second Boisbouvier​ Chair in Australian Literature, Patricia Karvelas's recommendation for your summer reading list, arts philanthropist Simon Mordant pulls financial support from Australia's 2019 exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal is Gareth Sansom's choice of Masterpiece and we take a musical trip through the low-budget Australian cinema of the 70s and 80s.

We discuss whether high school reading lists are too depressing, hear about an ambitious project to paint and document all the edible plants in some parts of Arnhem Land, and speak with Garry Disher about his latest novel Her.

Big hART at 25 with founder Scott Rankin, urban artists meet Indigenous artists In Cahoots at Fremantle Arts Centre, Queensland author Steven Lang's novel Hinterland, Australian author Sofie Laguna's Top Shelf

Two couples war over the same dream home, in Eddie Perfect's satirical new musical, Vivid White, magician Cosentino's new series of books for primary school kids, Robert Altman's 1978 film A Wedding is screenwriter/director Tony Ayres's choice of Masterpiece and investigative journalist Omar El Akkad's first novel, American War.

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Guatemalan Magic Realism from 1949. Groundbreaking, influential, surreal.