A recently released collection of stories from the great American author show him in a new light; the flappers and the champagne are gone, and in their place are dark stories of war, sex and suicide.

Legendary jazz musician James Morrison with his Top Shelf picks.

A super fan and literary academic gets up close and personal with thriller writer, Lee Child.

Colson Whitehead on his brutal, playful, novel of slavery, The Underground Railroad, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Between the Lines was an art exhibition by homeless artists in Melbourne.

Lia Hills on her novel The Crying Place that journeys into the Western Desert.

Bibliophile Stuart Kells on real and imagined libraries and the love of books.

Is swearing a sign of moral failing? Or an important mode of expression?

A letter that the late satirist John Clarke penned to his younger self, as he listened to some traditional Scottish airs, performed by Genevieve Lacey and James Crabb.

d UK comedians Jenny Éclair and James Veitch told us about their 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows.