Comedian Mark Humphries joins the TV chat with Lauren Carroll Harris and Jason Di Rosso to talk about Ricky Gervais' new series After Life. Director Karyn Kusama discusses directing Nicole Kidman in edgy cop thriller Destroyer, and film curator Richard Sowada is in to talk Design on Film.

This memoir about the author's dysfunctional family

Melissa Lucashenko's Stella-shortlisted novel started its life as a project about 'Aboriginal hillbillies'.

Jamie Marina Lau started writing her debut novel when she was 19, by the time she was 21, it was published.

Little Gods features 12 year old Olive who thinks of herself as clever, brave and sure and is constantly unsatisfied by the explanations of adults.

The Stella judges say Tumarkin's book "pushes the boundaries of non-fiction so far out that they will never recover".

Enza Gandolfo's Stella-shortlisted novel was inspired by the real-life West Gate Bridge disaster, which killed 35 people in 1970s Melbourne.

Chris Heysen and NGV curator Angela Hesson on important 20th-century Australian painters, father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen, vale Edmund Capon in Arts News, Fiona Gruber visits Melbourne's Lyon Housemuseum on the opening of a new public gallery next door, and Bendigo Art Gallery's Tansy Curtin and London's National Portrait Gallery's Charlotte Boland on Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.

Acclaimed Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius has been awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama, US playwright Clare Barron's Dance Nation follows a group of teens in the throes of adolescence finding their place in a hyper-sexualised and competitive world of dance, and we speak with playwright and performer Nakkiah Lui about her new satirical play at the Sydney Theatre Company — How to Rule the World.

Stella prize winning author Carrie Tiffany on her latest Exploded View, Gerald Murnane on the release of A Season on Earth in full and the book to film adaptation of The Big Sleep.