When jihadists took control of Timbuktu, a group of librarians started a smuggling ring to protect the city's literary treasures.

Sky Kirkham brings us the latest news from the world of books and arts, including the recovery of two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh from the Italian Mafia, which were stolen in 2002.

Atlanta got its first black cops in 1948, and some of their white colleagues took out a bounty on them. That reality has been turned into fiction.

We journey beyond the Vinyl Frontier with ABC Sound Librarians James Lee and Michael Munson to talk about the rock and roll memoir, and the music that made those memoirs best-sellers.

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.

For our Top Shelf segment of favourites, sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson lists his five musical favourites.

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.

Science and art collide at the Penrith Regional Gallery in an exhibition about our fascinating with gravity and space.

Australian playwright Lally Katz with her favourite artworks for Top Shelf.