A double bill of one-person shows by Maurial Spearim and Ian Michael delve into Australia's Aboriginal history and how traumatic events in the past continue to affect Aboriginal people today.

Irish prize-winning author Eimear McBride speaks about her latest novel The Lesser Bohemians.

In the exhibition Those Imagined Cities, the artist Jan Senbergs and poet Chris Wallace Crabbe, take the viewer, through image and text, to six separate cities that neither of them has visited.

Helen Garner opens up about human darkness, ukuleles, and the joys of grandchildren.

Parkour, tricking and krumping are just some of the moves associated with a new show on at the Sydney Opera house as the underground dance scene of Western Sydney hits mainstream theatre audiences.

Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee discusses The Art of Rivalry, his new book on the great frenemies of modern art.

West Australian writer Sam Carmody shares his favourites marine-themed works of art.

Robert Forster, together with Grant McLennan, formed one of Australia's most influential bands, the Go-Betweens, and he's written a memoir called Grant and I.

The Phoenix Years is Madeleine's O'Dea's book about art, resistance and the making on modern China.

In "Unknown Land", the Art Gallery of Western Australia brings together some of the earliest maps, drawings and paintings of Western Australia, created by European explorers and settlers.