Writer Deborah Harkness tells Stephen Jewell how her tales of witchery and blood-sucking evolved from her role as a university historian.

Disturbing but compelling, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

The battle over public funding for our major orchestras has all the ingredients of comic opera, if not farce.

Carroll du Chateau talks to writer James McNeish about the people who fuelled his memoir.

How did an erotic novel become the best-selling paperback of all time? Carroll du Chateau looks into the publishing phenomenon taking the world by storm.

Australia's answer to Anthony Bourdain has no shortage of raw ingredients.

Danielle Wright delves into the zine sub-culture, where she discovers underground publications about everything from neighbourhood cats to the joys of the photocopier.

An exhibition by eight LA artists gives a broad impression of contemporary styles

Chris Cleave’s novels closely shadow real-life events. He tells Stephen Jewell how his latest, Gold, about two female athletes competing at the Olympics, almost suffered a major technical setback.

A young student has reportedly uncovered four previously unknown stories by New Zealand literary great Katherine Mansfield.

What we want, finds Nicky Pellegrino, is often different from what we get.