American writer Garth Greenwell explores queer sex and queer love in his new novel, the play Bright World reveals the shared 20th century history between Aboriginal and Jewish people in Australia, the beauty and depth inside comics, and writer Helen Ellis on her love of cleaning items.

Elizabeth Strout on complex family bonds. Quit your job and become a writer? Top Shelf: Ellen van Neerven. We who love: The Nolan slates .

We hear about the most popular Australasian circus of the 19th century, chat to playwright Phillip Kavanagh about memory and his new work Replay, and wax lyrical with musician Hugo Race, who has just written a memoir.

The MTC has reprised the 19th century stage classic Miss Julie; two Tasmanians - the artist Lindsay Broughton and the historian Greg Lehman discuss the island's colonial history, and welsh writer Holly Muller weaves her family history into fiction.

The Nature of Paper explores the work of Northern Territory artist Winsome Jobling; an exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA explores the intense and affecting works of some of the world's best comic artists; and a conversation around women in footy, inspired by the new collection of football stories, From the Outer: Footy like you've never heard it.

Bright World, a new play that explores Aboriginal and Jewish experience and one of their shared heroes; in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London book series, where police procedural meets a city's history of gods and monsters and Olga Lorenzo's novel The Light on the Water, which explores the devastating repercussions when a child goes missing.

Katie Noonan has joined with the Brodsky Quartet to create a song cycle based on the poetry of Judith Wright, historian and art critic Simon Schama has a new book on portraiture, Book-to-Film explores the 1962 film version of To Kill A Mockingbird, and a new play for children in Perth that is based on a German book called Bambert's Book of Lost Stories.

Re-imagining theatre's heroines. Garth Greenwell's bittersweet queer love story. South Africa's Queer Crossings .

King Charles III. Top Shelf: Olga Lorenzo. Making art in Margaret River. Arts News: BP update & Andy Warhol's studio.

Lindsay Tanner's debut novel Comfort Zone. Bambert's Book of Lost Stories. Leanne Hall's children's novel, Iris and the Tiger. The Australian Ballet's Swan Lake.