Reboot your life with the Great Empathy Debate. This is a debate inspired by research into the effects of reading literary versus genre fiction. The sharpest minds in Australian fiction will argue for or against the proposition that reading literary fiction improves empathy.

A new exhibition at Heide brings together the work of three pioneering modernist painters: Georgia O'Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith.

A new production at the National Theatre of Parramatta explores what it means to exist in translation.

Monsieur Mayonnaise is a documentary about filmmaker Philippe Mora as he’s making a comic book about his parents experience during German occupied France.

Irish artist Gerard Byrne on his video works, which reimagine and restage key cultural conversations of the past.

South Korean author Krys Lee on her novel How I Became a North Korean which was inspired by her own work with north Korean defectors on the Chinese border.

Cameroonian author Imbolo Mbue’s debut novel Behold the Dreamers is a story of immigration, families, wealth and the American Dream.

Professor Iain McCalman explores how On the Origin of Species changed humanity.

The copper mining town of Queenstown in north west Tasmania is about reverberate with stories, images and sounds which speak back to this land and its people.

An art detective story in pursuit of a lost painting by the Spanish artist Velazquez with art critic Laura Cumming.