Nicola Heath

Melbourne poet Grace Yee has won Australia's richest literary award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, for her debut verse novel, Chinese Fish.

Leading contemporary artist Tacita Dean, the artist behind MCA's summer blockbuster exhibition, reflects on the influence of time, loss and serendipity on her work.

The question of what constitutes a sacred space in our increasingly secular society is at the heart of Amanda Lohrey's new novel The Conversion.

Andrew Rovenko's otherworldly photographs of his daughter wearing an astronaut costume attracted fans from all over the world — and now feature in a coffee-table book.

From dusty farming communities to sleepy seaside towns, crime fiction set in regional Australia is taking off. Here's why readers are devouring these stories.

A top food critic says menus are failing to challenge diners. What's driving this creativity crisis — COVID, cost of living or something more worrying? 

When the Stella Prize-winning author was diagnosed with breast cancer at the same time as her sisters, her life — and writing — changed forever.

The Australian actor hopes Master Gardener, the new film by veteran director and screenwriter Paul Schrader, will spark debate.

From Perth to Albury, we take a look at Australia's live music scene and how it's faring after a pandemic and during a cost of living crisis. 

She's one of the most significant and inventive contemporary artists in history, and now AGNSW is throwing its doors open to the largest exhibition of Louise Bourgeois's work ever shown in Australia.

The 50,000-pound ($96,000) prize was awarded to Irish writer Paul Lynch, for a dystopian novel set in an Ireland ruled by a fascist government. 

In Exquisite Corpse, award-winning Australian author Marija Peričić gives voice to the women caught up in a man's macabre obsession with a dead patient.

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is notoriously difficult to adapt. But that hasn't stopped one Sydney theatre company staging a new production of the Russian literary masterpiece.

Her novella, Cold Enough for Snow, has seen the Melbourne author win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, while journalist-turned-farmer Sam Vincent won the non-fiction category for his book, My Father and Other Animals.

Spencer Tunick has photographed thousands of naked people all over the world, from Barcelona to Bondi. In November, it's Brisbane's turn.

Richard Osman is one of the most popular authors on the planet, and he's in Australia for the first time promoting his new book, The Last Devil to Die.

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe returns with Lola in the Mirror, a sweeping love story infused with magical realism set against Brisbane's gritty underbelly.

A new book recounts how an unprecedented grassroots campaign in the town of Biloela saved a refugee family from deportation.

While some are optimistic about the streaming giant's move into audiobooks, others fear it will threaten authors' already precarious livelihoods.

Tech giants have been accused of "mass copyright infringement" and "system theft" by authors whose work has been used to train generative AI systems such as ChatGPT.  

Contemporary circus in Australia has been left reeling as Swinburne University pauses the 2024 intake for NICA's circus arts degree.

Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall's new musical comedy, Bananaland, considers the best way to deliver a political message at a moment of planetary crisis.

Zadie Smith's latest book, The Fraud, may be set in 19th-century England, but the acclaimed British author never set out to write historical fiction.

Phasing out cash has serious implications for privacy, safety and financial exclusion among marginalised communities.

The Miles Franklin-winning author takes on the patriarchy in her new book, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life.