Robyn Stacey's other-worldly camera obscura images take us into artist studios, Graeme Macrae Burnet discusses his Man Booker shortlisted novel His Bloody Project, artist Andy Quilty discusses bogans and burnouts in his art and we journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier with tracks inspired by the zodiac.

Berlin's Gob Squad take on War and Peace; Robert Ingpen on illustrating the classics; public art takes over the Queen Victoria Markets; Anna Westbrook on Dark Fires Shall Burn

Crossing Boundaries: New Voices from Indonesia. Aboriginal and world dance clash in Kaya. A novel about Marina Abramovic.

Why become a surrogate? Jonathan Safran Foer on Here I Am. Lev Grossman's cult series The Magicians. The Australian Ballet's Nijinsky.

An art detective story in pursuit of a lost painting by the Spanish artist Velazquez with art critic Laura Cumming; the Awesome International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things celebrates its 20th year in 2016; and the Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.

Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize. Margaret Atwood: Hag-Seed. No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016. The Moving Garden by Lee Mingwei.

A gathering of the sharpest minds in Australian fiction debate the proposition that reading literary fiction improves empathy.

A new exhibition brings together the work of three pioneering modernist painters: American Georgia O'Keeffe, and Australians Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith; the National Theatre of Parramatta explores what it means to live in translation in their new show Who Speaks for Me?; and a documentary about filmmaker Philippe Mora as he's making a comic book about his parents experience during Nazi era France.

We hear from Irish artist Gerard Byrne on why he recreates historical conversations in his work, meet debut novelists Imbolo Mbue and Krys Lee, and hear how Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species changed humanity.

The Unconformity Festival mines the rocky landscape of Queenstown, Tasmania, art critic Laura Cumming on her dual biography of Diego Velazquez and the 19th century bookseller John Snare who went in search of one of his lost paintings, reviewer Ronnie Scott on The Schooldays of Jesus and the new novel by Eben Venter Trencherman and author Lian Hearn's Top Shelf.