Join Graeme Simsion, best-selling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, as he talks about his literary journey, as well as his insightful and endearing characterisation of Asperger Syndrome via hero, Don Tillman.

Tragedy delivers bad news. It tells us that we are not in control of our own lives. Peter Holbrook, Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature from the University of Queensland addresses this in the context of tragic drama in the time of Shakespeare.

Griffith Review’s editor Julianne Schultz leads a conversation with contributors Frank Bongiorno, Tim Bonyhady, Meredith McKinney and Peter Stanley on the lingering social impact of conflict – the Enduring Legacies – the subject of Griffith Review edition 48.

Andrea Goldsmith has chosen the mysterious workings of the imagination as her subject for the 2015 Ray Mathew lecture. She has long been fascinated by the strange alchemy whereby the private and ephemeral meanderings of a freely-ranging, borderless mind transmogrify into tangible, observable behaviours – whether it be a decision to marry or move house, or an artwork such as a novel or a painting.