Nicola Heath is a freelance writer.
Thai-born Australian ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa transforms strangers' broken treasures in a new exhibition set to tour nationally.
The acclaimed author of Monkey Grip and The Children's Bach is back: this time she turns her razor-sharp writer's eye to her 16-year-old grandson's footy team.
Organisers of the Summer Reading for MPs campaign say they're not trying to change minds, but they believe reading can provide a "better understanding of the present through the lens of history".
It might look like child's play, but writing picture books is an exact science. Mem Fox — who has just published her 49th book, Meerkat Mayhem — explains how it's done.
The winner of the prestigious literary award — to be announced on November 12 — will take home $98,000 and receive a dramatic bump in book sales around the world.
In 2014, Nagi Maehashi quit the corporate world to start food blog RecipeTin Eats. Now, she's Australia's most popular food writer — and she's released her second cookbook in time for Christmas.
October is always a blockbuster month in the publishing industry and this year is no exception, with new offerings from Michelle de Kretser, Robbie Arnott, Melanie Cheng and more.
Lee Miller was a model and muse before she became a war correspondent who documented the aftermath of World War II.
The Kamilaroi artist started out spraying graffiti around Melbourne's west in the 80s. Today, he's the subject of a major survey exhibition at NGV Australia.
The acclaimed West Australian author imagines what life will be like for our descendants if we do nothing about climate change in his much-anticipated latest novel.
Leading art world figure Djon Mundine calls on a rich cultural history in his performance work Always Was, Always Will Be.
The celebrated artist — who recently delivered the $14 million Ouroboros sculpture to the National Gallery — draws on a lifetime of love, loss and spiritual enlightenment in her work.
Melbourne writer André Dao, who penned a genre-defying account of his grandfather's remarkable life, is one of six winners at the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
Walgalu/Wiradjuri artist Aidan Hartshorn, one of five young artists selected for Primavera 2024 at the MCA, doesn't want to rewrite the Snowy Hydro narrative — but add to it.
A near-future debut novel about defiant young women boxers stood out to our critics this month, plus seven other books they simply could not put down.
Australia will soon be getting a poet laureate. But what does that actually mean? We sit down with the UK laureate, Simon Armitage, to find out.
He's an actor, musician and comic book author — and with the publication of The Book of Elsewhere, Hollywood film star Keanu Reeves is now a novelist, too.
Award-winning writers Ceridwen Dovey and Alicia Sometimes use space as a setting to explore what it means to be human in their new books.
Four students and a teacher meet in an Iranian classroom to learn English. The result is an acclaimed play by Sanaz Toossi that unpacks the migrant experience.
Angus McDonald has won the People's Choice award for the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Marcia Langton.
Clementine Stoney Maconachie made her Olympic debut in the pool at the Sydney 2000 Games. More than two decades later, she's in Paris as an Olympian Artist.
The Waanyi writer has won the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her epic novel Praiseworthy, a fabulist critique of colonisation and climate change.
Seafood provides an ideal package of nutrients, and there are ways to shop and eat it more sustainably.
A bucks party in the bush serves as the setting for Birdeater, a debut psychological thriller that re-evaluates contemporary masculinity.
The Midwest princess has seen her popularity skyrocket since opening for Olivia Rodrigo earlier in the year, but she's quickly discovering the problems that come with parasocial relationships.