How would a Muslim artist respond to the Easter story? What about an artist raised in a Buddhist household?

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

The National Folk Festival opens in Canberra on the Easter long weekend.

From the Perth Writers Festival, debut authors Rajith Savanadasa and Chinelo Okparanta discuss their novels about family, love and coming of age in nations divided by civil war.

How has the wheatbelt been imagined and depicted in the literature of Australia?

The Sannyasin spiritual movement, led by guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh captured the imagination of many West Australians during the 1980s. A new exhibition charts the colour and the controversy of the so called 'orange people' in Fremantle.

‘Lizzie Borden took an exe/ Gave her mother forty whacks/ When she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one.’ Or did she?

Australian artist Brook Andrew with his Top Shelf favourites.

Looking for Rose Paterson uncovers the family life that created one of Australia's most prolific early balladeers, Banjo Paterson.

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, the man behind the American band The Mountain Goats, is a troubling tale set in the seemingly calm cornfields of small town Iowa.