Melbourne writer Tony Birch has been announced as the winner of this year's Patrick White Award.

Christmas glitz takes on satanic dimensions in Silent Night.

Bram Presser explores his grandparents' story of Holocaust survival and migration to Australia in his debut novel.

A look back at when Australia caught the wave of surf music in the early 60s.

"The earth is a dot, the moon, the sun, the stars are all made up of dots, you and me, we are dots." The words of internationally renowned artist Yayoi Kusama whose work is being celebrated at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.

Barangaroo Ngangamay is a smart-phone app which allows you to hear ancient songs and stories behind Sydney's stunning new harbourside park, the Barangaroo Reserve.

The WA regional town of Collie is best known for coal mining. But thanks to a new, state-of-the-art gallery and a group of determined volunteers, its profile in the Australian arts scene is growing.

Macho, corrupt cops walk the streets of New York City in this novel, and that walk tracks a dramatic downward spiral.

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum is Sydney's first major exhibition of Dutch masters.

Writer and journalist Benjamin Law discusses A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood.