Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe tells the story of Okonkwo, a respected Nigerian tribal leader. It's said to be the most widely read African book.

A new company that is filming Australian plays for a cinema release, Tim Winton's popular novel Cloudstreet has become an opera, artist Arryn Snowball on making art in Berlin and Brisbane, and writer Virginia Reeves.

How to write about dance. Art and Lies in The Dutch Golden Age. Rod Seppelt - Botanical Illustrator. Sound from the ground: making music in a graveyard.

Adelaide Writer's Week - Ted Hughes.

Shakespeare's Greatest Hits monologues. Shakespeare & Modern Life. Shakespeare Unplugged. 1606: William Shakespeare and the year of Lear.

Book review: In Other Words & My Name is Lucy Barton. Damon Young on The Art of Reading. The Art of Giving: Carrillo Gantner AO. Shakespearean stumbles: Congreeing.

Shakespeare's little known play The Merry Wives of Windsor gets a modern makeover in a new Melbourne production, Julia Claibourne Johnson has set her new comic novel in Hollywood, writer Lian Hearn's favourite works of art, and a big coffee table book which charts the way the body has been depicted in art across the history.

Charlotte Wood wins Stella Prize. Book review: The Diemenois & Swallows. Josephine Rowe's A Loving, Faithful Animal. Vinyl Frontier: Cassettes. Shakespearean stumbles: Kicky-wicky.

A stage musical which pays comic homage to the Eurovision song contest, a new biography of Charlotte Bronte, six artists set up open studios in a 19th century mansion in Melbourne to make new works of art, and another of Shakespeare's lost words.

Lake Disappointment by Lachlan Philpott and Luke Mullins. Tom Keneally enlists the help of his daughter Meg to write The Soldier's Curse. Marilyn Monroe . ABC TV's Meet the Mavericks. Shakespearean stumbles: Slugabed.