Jazz saxophonist Mirko Guerrini and drummer Carlo Canevali create a melodic portrait of Michael Cathcart.

Award-winning director Simon Phillips discusses the Melbourne Theatre Company's new production of Macbeth.

George Williams reviews JRR Tolkien's new book Beren and Luthien, and Robin Hobb's Assassin's Fate.

Double Exposure is an anthology of plays by Jewish and Palestinian diaspora writers that explore themes of peace, justice, land and love.

Does Kate DiCamillo win the award for best laugh by a writer, in any genre?

Australian writer Fiona Lowe, on her Top Shelf books, films and music that inspired her to become a romance fiction author.

James Taylor: Bittersweet and Low written and performed by John Fleming is a musical tribute to the singer/songwriter who defined a generation with songs like Fire and Rain and A Country Road.

Tommy Bent was a notorious colonial businessman who rose to be Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Art conservator Caroline Fry has been restoring his official portrait - and adding lustre to the public image of a man whose reputation is more colourful than golden.

Australian Indigenous author and poet Ali Cobby Eckermann on the creative works and people that inspire her for Top Shelf.

Pulitzer Prize winning US author, Elizabeth Strout's new book Anything Is Possible once again delves into the complex secrets that lie deep beneath the surface of ordinary lives.