Critic Ronnie Scott reviews The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee and Trencherman by Eben Venter.

Lian Hearn is the pseudonym used by the much-loved children's author Gillian Rubinstein for her fantasy novels set in feudal Japan. For Top Shelf, she shares her top five cherished artworks.

Do we know the identity of the elusive and much loved author Elena Ferrante?

We explore Primavera 2016, this year's exhibition of young Australian artists at Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

The latest work from the Australian Dance Theatre deals with some rather heavy themes: objectification, dehumanisation and subjugation.

Tim Burton's latest film is adapted from the best-selling children’s book by the American writer Ransome Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

US writer Kaitlyn Greenidge responds to Lionel Shriver's Brisbane Writers Festival keynote in which she complained about identity politics dictating what writers can and can't write about.

The Awesome International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things celebrates its 20th year in 2016.

Dance that blurs the line between performer and audience.

Taking us from creation myth to the contemporary world, the new show from Back to Back Theatre is their most ambitious yet.