The documentary Obit takes viewers behind the scenes at the New York Times obituary department.

Claire Fuller’s novel Swimming Lessons follows the tides of four lives, with delicacy and mystery.

Meet the couple who share their Melbourne home and their taste in art with the public.

In The Walworth Beauty, novelist Michèle Roberts slips between the street's of London's poor in the 1850s, and present day South London.

The Woman Next Door is set in post-Apartheid South Africa and is about two 80 year old women, one black, one white, both rich and both very grumpy.

It's Venice Biennale time and the theme Viva Arte Viva shouts art for art's sake.

African American gospel has influenced just about every genre of contemporary music, but should white people be messing with it?

The Northern Territory Writers' Festival, which brings together writers from Central Australia, across Australia and internationally, is just about to open in Alice Springs.

Are ebook sales really on the decline? Australian writer Nick Earls says don't discount eBooks yet.

This month a new Australian music magazine Women In Pop is hitting magazine stands.