At this year's Sydney Writer's Festival, Sarah Kanowski talks with three writers, Hanya Yanagihara, Nicolas Fargues and Julia Leigh, about the extremes of love, the fierceness and ambiguity of friendship, and the nature of anger in all its guises.

Thomas Caldwell and Alicia Sometimes review Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic, The BFG.

Christos Tsiolkas on his novel Barracuda, an unflinching look at class in modern Australia, which has been adapted for television.

Indigenous Australian writer Ellen van Neerven shares her favourite activities and art works for Top Shelf.

Paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two of the biggest stars of the Mexican art world, are on display in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Irish author Maggie O'Farrell discusses This Must Be the Place, her complex and technically inventive new novel about a perfect marriage that goes off course.

In the third in our series on Australian arts philanthropists, we meet Dr Gene Sherman AM, a successful gallerist who is now the artistic director of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation.

This year’s Lake Bolac Eel Festival, in western Victoria, featured award-winning authors Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe, alongside a program packed with songs, dance and barbequed eels.

Author and journalist Liam Pieper discusses the artworks that have influenced him.

Mr Gaga is a documentary about maverick artistic director Ohad Naharin, who has steered Israel's national dance company Batsheva, for 26 years.