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

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?

American writer Jeffrey Eugenides is back with a new collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint, which takes the reader deep into the mind of the great writer.

The Weinstein case has shone a light on an ugly culture of sexual harassment within the US film industry, but what about our own entertainment industry?

Why it's radical when daily life and domestic spaces are full of art.

In a conversation recorded at the Queensland Theatre in Brisbane, four leading women in theatre reveal how they manage to sustain a career in a field that is still dominated by men.

What would a history of Australian TV crime drama look like? A panel of insiders give their assessment.

From the 2017 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, a discussion with one of Colombia's leading novelists, Hector Abad, about his heartbreaking memoir Oblivion.

American writer Amy Tan's new memoir is a glorious maze of letters, journal entries, and reflections through which she describes her journey as a daughter and as a writer.

In The Jobbing Actor: Rules of Engagement, actor and director Lex Marinos considers what he has learnt about the craft and about life after fifty years in the profession.