Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. This classic Arab novel is described as The Heart of Darkness in reverse and is considered one of the most important Arab novels of the 20th century. It's our November African Book Club novel.

Nadja Spiegelman on her mother-daughter memoir I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This; Australian artist Michael Zavros takes us on a tour of his latest exhibition; a wrap up of the news in the arts; And Ottessa Moshfegh on her Man Booker shortlisted novel Eileen.

Graeme Simsion's new novel The Best of Adam Sharp; a story from West Sumatran author Uda Agus in our Crossing Boundaries: New Voices from Indonesia series; analysing the famous Lady and the Unicorn Tapestry series; Jodi Picoult confronts racism in her new novel, Small Great Things.

Canadian art historian Ross King on Monet's water lilies in Mad Enchantment, Sallly Rippin and Jaclyn Moriarty on making children laugh in Laugh Your Head Off Again, Melissa Ashley's novel The Birdman's Wife about illustrator Elizabeth Gould.

Sisters in Crime, a group who champions women crime writers, is having its 25th Anniversary Convention; rape victim Xan Fraser relives her story on stage in Project Xan; extraordinary stories of shorebird migration inspire an exhibition about human migration experiences; three of Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays will now share the credit with the playwright Christopher Marlowe.

New Writing on Place. Pete Byfield: writing country songs at 63. Nigel Levings sheds some light. Rose Tremain - The Gustav Sonata.

On the 25th birthday of Sisters in Crime, we take a look at crime writing by women, we journey back to the 1960s to hear about John Olsen's art school, and hear from the American novelist Matthew Griffin.

From a Home to a Home explores human migration experiences through the lens of shorebird migration; Nathan Hill takes a satirical look at a divided America in The Nix; The story behind nursery rhymes; and Book to Film compares The Light Between Oceans

Deathfest, a Brisbane festival embracing grief and mortality; revisiting the debate about who wrote Shakespeare with the latest evidence; the fifth in our series on new writing from Indonesia.

Moliere's Tartuffe reworked for Dunstan Playhouse in Adelaide, Rape victim relives her story on stage in Project Xan, novelist Stephanie Bishop with her Top Shelf, and The Disappearing poetry project maps Australia's hidden and disappearing histories.