In the lead up to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Tiger Webb looks at five words the Bard invented that never really took off.

Garth Greenwell's debut novel, What Belongs to You, is a bittersweet love-song of queer lives today.

William Cooper is remembered as both an Aboriginal activist and as a hero to the Melbourne Jewish community. Playwrights Andrea James, a descendant of William Cooper, and Elise Hearst, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, have created a new play about their shared history.

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA explores the intense and affecting works of some of the world's best comic artists.

American writer Helen Ellis shares five items she cherishes: most of which can be found in the kitchen or the laundry.

One of America's foremost novelists tells a new story of what family gives and what it costs.

Have you ever considered throwing away your day job and becoming a writer? That's exactly what the young Brisbane-based writer Bri Lee did last year. So what was involved?

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

A little known series, painted on roof tiles, by one of Australia's most renowned painters: Sidney Nolan.

Musician Hugo Race has written a memoir, Road Series, that's been described as a vagabond road poem.