A monthly series exploring the origins and meaning of common idioms and phrases

A 2016 Sydney Writer's Festival special: a conversation with Jamaican writer Marlon James, whose novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, won last year's Man Booker Prize for fiction.

Nigerian New Yorker Teju Cole is a photographer, art critic and novelist, who knows how to use focus, clarity and changing fields of interest across all his forms.

Legendary boxer Henry Nissen is The Fighter, in Arnold Zable's biographical tale of a man of Melbourne's streets.

The new film Hunt for the Wilderpeople is based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by New Zealand writer Barry Crump.

Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years. Meet her New York gallerist and the curator of her new Australian show.

Art critic Julie Ewington has been in Singapore and London, and reviews some new contemporary art exhibitions she has seen in each city.

Jasper Hope is the CEO of Dubai Opera, a brand new cultural institution which will showcase the performing arts in the biggest city in the United Arab Emirates.

Stories of displacement, nostalgia, and exploding zombies with Aleksandar Hemon.

Brooklyn based writer Jami Attenberg reveals her Masterpiece; a sound-rich website called The Roaring Twenties.