Acclaimed Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith with her Top Shelf favourites.

Omar Sakr, a bi-sexual Arab Australian poet, challenges negative stereotypes of Arab Australians in his debut collection of poetry, These Wild Houses.

Bronwyn Bancroft's book has been translated into Chinese for the first time, she's in Beijing for the 10th Anniversary of Australian Writers Week in China.

What is queer Indigenous art? Well, it can be a lot of different things, and it's often made by people sick of being pigeon-holed into a narrow set of expectations.

Bizet's Romantic imagining of the 'Exotic East' is reinterpreted by Opera Q.

Laurent Binet's The Seventh Function of Language reimagines the death of French semiotician, Roland Barthes, as a madcap murder mystery featuring cameos from Derrida, Foucault, and Bulgarian assassins.

Hear what makes the Ethiopian jazz so special with two icons of the genre, Mahmoud Ahmed and Ali Birra as they perform live in the studio.

Australian young adult fiction author Robert Newton's latest novel was inspired by his work as a firefighter.

Australian author Fiona McFarlane has just won the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize for her short story collection, The High Places.

Think your pair of joggers is just something you put on for your morning run? Think again.