Cartoonist Judy Horacek tries to make sense of an often surreal and sometimes cruel world in her new collection, Random Life.

Burlesque suprema Moira Finucane takes us into a gorgeous, fantastical world of icicles, glamour and extinct creatures which is the setting for her cataclysmic new show The Rapture.

A new exhibition on at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image celebrates 40 years of Aardman Animations, the iconic British animation studio.

Two strangers meet on a vast desert highway in John Harvey's new play, Heart is a Wasteland starring Ursula Yovich and Aaron Pedersen at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre.

Sydney's Carriageworks is showcasing the best in electronic, improvised and experimental music in Open Frame: Room40, which includes international guest Alessandro Cortini, a member of the band Nine Inch Nails.

British comedian James Veitch on the music, films and books that occupy his Top Shelf favourites.

Published in 1977, The Hour of the Star was the final novel of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector who died that same year. It's the June novel for our Latin American Book Club.

A dark production from The Royal Ballet tells the story of a King who is overcome with jealousy, with tragic consequences for himself and the people he loves.

Australian young adult and fantasy author Margo Lanagan chooses her Masterpiece: Souvenir, a short story by US author Joy Williams.

On the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, performance poet, Joan Nestle, remembers the political and creative turmoil of 1960s New York.