Separate stories podcast

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

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

Why was the house in Brisbane full of holes, the width of a broomstick, in the floorboards? What's that about?

Film maker, dancer and actor Daniel Monks with his honest and revealing Top Shelf.

In Jessica Townsend's new fantasy series for 8-12 year olds (and anyone), Morrigan Crow lives in a republic fuelled by magic. There is that small problem of being chased by the Hunt of Smoke and Shadows though . . .

Words are sprouting, being cultivated and even blooming in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

Master storyteller Armistead Maupin reveals his own story in Logical Family: A Memoir

Willing participants would hold hands or use a Ouija board to connect with the spirit world - a world mostly populated by charlatans and magicians as it turned out.

So is this what a séance is still all about?

Australian writer Catherine McKinnon shares what's on her Top Shelf.

Award winning US author Jesmyn Ward's latest novel Sing, Unburied, Sing explores the legacy of slavery through a contemporary American family in the south.