Books and Arts Daily
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Books and Arts Daily 24 May 2013
Sydney Writers Festival: Daniel Morden, Patrick Ness and Kate Tempest.
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Books and Arts Daily 23 May 2013
Sydney Writers' Festival: Lauren Beukes.
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Books and Arts Daily 22 May 2013
Claire Messud and The Woman Upstairs. Scarlett Thomas, Monkeys with Typewriters. Honey Brown's Dark Horse.
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Books and Arts Daily 21 May 2013
What makes an emerging writer? Teenagers making art that packs a punch. Cellist Johannes Moser is turning heads.
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Books and Arts Daily 20 may 2013
David Sale, The Man Behind Number 96. Robin Rhode: The Call of Walls. Egypt's Secrets of the Afterlife.
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Books and Arts Daily 17 May 2013
Monet's Garden at the NGV in Melbourne. Bite Your Tongue: Fiction, memory and censorship. Top Shelf: Amy Conroy. Vale Jill Kitson.
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Books and Arts Daily 16 May 2013
Coming up... at the 19th Sydney Biennale. Amity Gaige's Schroder. Top Shelf: Joanna Murray Smith. The Cannes Film Festival.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 May 2013
Victorian Opera presents Nixon in China. Orry Kelly, The Secrets Behind The Man Who Dressed The Stars. Ian Fairweather: artistic engagement with Asia .
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Books and Arts Daily 14 May 2013
Vikas Swarup's Accidental Apprentice. This is Not Art. Hugh Howey's bestselling futuristic novel Wool. Top Shelf: Krissy Kneen.
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Books and Arts Daily May 13 2013
Stolen Generation artworks repatriated. The Sculptor and the Astrophysicist: A Collaborative Sphere. Lally Katz Puts her Stories on Stage. Top Shelf: Alexandra Spencer Jones.
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Books and Arts Daily 10 May 2013
Death of a Salesman at the Black Swan. Rayya Elias's Memoir of Hard Living. Top Shelf: Steve Poole.
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Books and Arts Daily 9 May 2013
Lionel Shriver's Big Brother. Kate Worsley's She Rises: A Novel of the Sea. Book Reviews: John le Carré and Janet Malcolm.
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Books and Arts Daily 8 May 2013
The Searchers: classic western and captivity narrative. Death row art. New vocal music with Australian Voices.
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Books and Arts Daily 7 May 2013
Australia's new pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Big Game Hunting with Fiona Hall. The work of Paul Montford. Top Shelf: Hugh Howey.
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Books and Arts Daily 6 May 2013
Blak Magic. Mother knows best in True Minds. Ashley Hay's novel The Railwayman's Wife. Top Shelf: Hannah Gadsby.
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Books and Arts Daily Friday May 3
Mona Lisa: the most famous painting in the world. The theft of the Mona Lisa. Mona Lisa: Pop Icon.
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Books and Arts Daily 2 May 2013
Sarah Dunant's Blood & Beauty: A novel of the Borgias. Meet the new Director of GOMA. Book Reviews: Madeleine and And The Mountains Echoed.
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Books and Arts Daily 1 May 2013
Women rule at Miles Franklin, but no Vogel. An Evening With Julie Andrews. The museum as a stage for Yirra Yaakin theatre. Top Shelf: David Sefton.
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Books and Arts Daily 30 April 2013
Sex in young adult fiction. All the Way with Marie Darrieussecq. Cry Blue Murder.
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Books and Arts Daily 29 April 2013
Jeff Wall's photographic retrospective. Indigenous art commissioned at Paris museum. Julienne Van Loon's Harmless. Top Shelf: Emma Matthews.
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Books and Arts Daily 26 April 2013
American Classic: Grapes of Wrath.
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Books and Arts Daily 25 April 2013
Kerry Greenwood's Gallipoli Novel. Jon Cattapan on Painting In East Timor. The Promise, The Town That Never Forgets.
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Books and Arts Daily 24 April 2013
Andrea Goldsmith's The Memory Trap. Krissy Kneen's new novel Steeplechase. Karen Lord's Possible Worlds. Top Shelf: Eric Whitacre.
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Books and Arts Daily 23 April 2013
Hollywood Costumes. Cory Taylor's My Beautiful Enemy. Jon Haynes is The Poof Downstairs.
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Books and Arts Daily 22 April 2013
Rehearsals underway for Melbourne's Ring Cycle. The Magnificent Ambersons. Book Review: Word Hunters By Nick Earls.
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Books and Arts Daily 19 April 2013
One River: A centenary of Canberra project. Love and Fury: Judith Wright and Nugget Coombs. Lenny Bruce and his ill-fated Sydney tour.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 April 2013
Isabel Allende and Maya's Notebook. Art Crashes Into Authority in New Play About Ai Weiwei. Desert River Sea: Kimberley Art Then & Now.
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Books and Arts Daily 17 April 2013
Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret. Meet the New Arts Minister Tony Burke. The Stella Prize goes to... Carrie Tiffany.
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Books and Arts Daily 16 April 2013
Pulitzer Prize Winners. The end of the novel? Hugh Howey on self-publishing. Finger-picking Bluesman Chris Smither. Top Shelf: Oliver Burkeman.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 April 2013
50 Years of The New York Review of Books. Kevin Maher's The Fields. The Battle for Class Clown. Top Shelf: Julia Blake.
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Books and Arts Daily 12 April 2012
Debil Debil showcases provocative Indigenous art. Jesse Blackadder's Novel of Antarctica. The Curated House: Michael Zavros Artist's Choice.
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Books and Arts Daily 11 April 2013
Yvette Walker's Letters to the End of Love. Book Reviews: Julian Barnes, Paul Auster and JM Coetzee. 13 Rooms of Living Sculpture. Comedy On Your Feet.
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Books and Arts Daily 10 April 2013
Georgia Blain's Secret Lives Of Men. A Clockwork Orange reworked for the stage. Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choirs.
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Books and Arts Daily 8 April 2013
Emma Matthews stars in Opera Australia's Partenope. Warwick Thornton's Mother Courage. Drawn From Sound. Top Shelf: Emily Perkins.
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Books and Arts Daily 5 April 2013
NICA graduates take a Leap of Faith. Ranters theatre collaborate with Brazilian artist. Can crowdfunding keep Holly dancing? Chris Somerville We Are Not the Same Anymore. Top Shelf: Glen Mazzara.
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Books and Arts Daily 4 April 2013
Oz Magazine turns 50. Mem Fox's Possum Magic turns 30. NEW13 Artists at ACCA.
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Books and Arts Daily 3 April 2013
Carmen: Opera Australia's new harbour-side production. Reader, We Have a Problem: Fiction as Therapy. FotoFreo's future in question.
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Books and Arts Daily 2 April 2013
Steven Carroll's A World of Other People. Art Philanthropy: Neil Balnaves. The British Royal Collection & Arts Patronage.
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Books and Arts Daily 1 April 2013
Laurie Anderson on her Music and her Art. Adelaide's Museum of Economic Botany. Phil Dadson's Artist Studio. Top Shelf: Angie Hart. Creative Partnerships.
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Books and Arts Daily 29 March 2013
Irish novelist Colm Toibin. Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project. Picturing New York.
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Books and Arts Daily 28 March 2013
American Classic: To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Books and Arts Daily 27 March 2013
Kate Atkinson's Life after Life. The Rise and Fall of Comedian Geraldine Quinn. Ava, The Musical. Top Shelf: Karen Foxlee.
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Books and Arts Daily 26 March 2013
200 Years of Pride and Prejudice. Crime writer Katherine Howell's Web of Deceit . Book Reviews with Jane Sullivan.
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Books and Arts Daily 25 March 2013
Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary. The Legacy of Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe. Glam Rock: The Performance of Style. Guitar Dor, The Grigoryan Brothers perform Tchaikovsky's Seasons.
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Books and Arts Daily 22 March 2013
Who'll win the Archibald Prize? War Horse Author Michael Morpurgo. Philip Blenkinsop's Two Snake Studio in Bangkok.
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Books and Arts Daily 21 March 2013
The Stella Prize for women's writing shortlist . Call The Midwife returns. The Old Tote turns 50.
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Books and Arts Daily March 20 2013
Therese Anne Fowler's Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Parastou Forouhar Beautiful and Sad. Anthony Breslin's TRYBE- An Opera in Paint. C. Joseph Greaves is Hard Twisted.
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Books and Arts Daily 19 March 2013
Bell Shakespeare's Henry IV. Follow the Yellow Brick Road to The Lawyers. The Torturous Life Of German Author Hans Fallada. Top Shelf: Sam Haren.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 March 2013
Rock Art in the Kimberley. Dina Nayeri's A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea. The Sport of Art. Top Shelf: Graeme Simsion.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 March 2013
Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island festival. I Heart Alice Heart I: Theatre with a kiss. Ayana Mathis and The Twelve tribes of Hattie. Live Music At Austin's International Airport. Top Shelf: opera singer David Hobson.
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Books and Arts Daily March 14 2013
National Cultural Policy. Tips For Buying Aboriginal Art. Bunyips Inspire an Award-Winning Nature Essay.
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Books and Arts Daily 13 March 2013
Christopher Koch's new novel Lost Voices. Bonnie Raitt at Byron Bay Bluesfest. Crime Reviews: Live by Night and Dead Girl Sing. Bangkok's Bukruk street art festival.
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Books and Arts Daily 11 March 2013
New Lease of Life for David Malouf Novel. Adrian McKinty's New Crime Novel. Indonesia's Epic Story of Nation Building .
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Books and Arts Daily 8 March 2013
Why Dance? Dance Massive's Skeleton. Art Month Sydney. Karen Foxlee's The Midnight Dress.
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Books and Arts Daily 7 March 2013
Political Theatre At Adelaide Writers' Week.
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Books and Arts Daily 6 March 2013
Edward St Aubyn at Adelaide Writers' Week.
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Books and Arts Daily 5 March 2013
Tom Holland at Adelaide Writer's Week.
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Books and Arts Daily 4 March 2013
Adelaide Writers' Week. Adelaide Festival: The Kreutzer Sonata. Adelaide Festival: Turner from the Tate. Adelaide Festival: Dance Icon Louise Lecavalier .
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Books and Arts Daily 1 March 2013
Adelaide Festival Director David Sefton. Adelaide Festival: Ballerina Sylvie Guillem. Adelaide Festival: One Man, Two Guvnors. Adelaide Festival: The Smile Off Your Face.
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Books and Arts Daily 28 February 2013
China Mieville's New Novel Railsea. Didgeridoo Health. Driving Miss Daisy.
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Books and Arts Daily 27 February 2013
Laurie Anderson on her Music and her Art. Tracey Thorn: Bedsit Disco Queen. Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker. Top Shelf : Adrian McKinty.
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Books and Arts Daily 26 February 2013
Shamini Flint and Inspector Singh. Melissa Lucashenko's Ode To Her Country. Soundwaves of The Reef.
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Books and Arts Daily 25 February 2013
Margaret Atwood's Year of The Flood. TV, Film and Theatre Director David Petrarca. The Oscars!
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Books and Arts Daily 22 February 2013
Zombies in Pop Culture. The Walking Dead. Zombies in Fiction.
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Books and Arts Daily 21 February 2013
Who Goes To The Opera? Julia Blake in Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles. Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk back in Australia for Two Performances.
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Books and Arts Daily 20 February 2013
Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden. Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins. The Caesar Twins. Nasty Arty Words.
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Books and Arts Daily 19 February 2013
Robert Gott's The Holiday Murders. Is Competitive Funding Harming The Arts? Tracy Chevalier's The Last Runaway. Top Shelf: Angie Hart.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 February 2013
Theatre and Social Discourse. Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project. The Beginning of The Bee Gees. Meet India's Jackie Collins, Shobhaa De.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 February 2013
Barry McGovern Stars in WATT. Clouds at Perth Festival. Texan Songstress Chrysta Bell. Scattered Light.
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Books and Arts Daily 14 February 2013
A History of Everything. Tom Flanagan's Kaput. Srinivas Krishnas' My Name is Raj. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
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Books and Arts Daily 13 February 2013
What's On At The Perth Festival. The Threepenny Opera Premieres in Perth. La Marea's Street of Stories . Public Art in Perth.
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Books and Arts Daily 12 February 2013
Amit Chaudhuri's Calcutta. Portraits By Ingvar Kenne. Printmaker Bea Maddock on show at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Books and Arts Daily 11 Feb 2013
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: 50 years today. Barking Gecko Theatre takes on Duck, Death and the Tulip. Peter Heller: The Dog Stars.
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Books and Arts Daily 8 February 2013
Where the Wild Things Are turns 50. Vampires in Film.
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Books and Arts Daily 7 February 2013
Andrew Shoben's Greyworld. Crime Writer Peter Corris Brings Back Cliff Hardy . World Theatre Festival: WTF? Top Shelf : Sharr White.
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Books and Arts Daily 6 February 2013
Fremantle Allows Art Graffiti. Picturing New York. Out of Place.
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Books and Arts Daily 5 February 2013
War Horse Gallops to the Australian stage. The Giraffe's Uncle, The Les Robinson Story. The Economics of Self Publishing.
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Books and Arts Daily 4 February 2013
Amy Espeseth, Sufficient Grace. Song Dong's Waste Not. Leslie Jorgenson's Cat and Fiddle. Top Shelf : Camille O'Sullivan.
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Books and Arts Daily 1 February 2013
New Lease of Life for David Malouf Novel. New MTC Production The Other Place. Top Shelf : Damon Young.
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Books and Arts Daily 31 January 2013
The Sapphires Sparkle at the AACTA Awards. Governor Bligh and the Short Man. Irish Songstress Camille O'Sullivan.
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Books and Arts Daily 30 January 2013
Deborah Levy's Novel Swimming Home. Indigenous Playwright Conference. Verdi's A Masked Ball Given Catalan treatment.
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Books and Arts Daily 28 January 2013
Skinnyfish Music producers honoured. A Cautionary Tail. The glamour of Hollywood costumes. Summer Reading.
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Books and Arts daily 25 January 2013
Will Self's new novel Umbrella. The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder. A day at the zoo.
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Books and Arts Daily 24 January 2013
The Silver Brumby Comes Back to Life. Ben Elton on his most personal novel to date . The Trapeze Artist by Will Davis.
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Books and Arts Daily January 23 2013
Pamela Stephenson's The Varnished Untruth. The Gods of Gotham. The long life of artist May Gibbs.
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Books and Arts Daily 22 January 2013
In Conversation with Simon Callow.
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Books and Arts Daily 21 January 2012
The fantasy world of Raymond E Feist. Simon Mawer’s novel: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. The Lure of Wicked Women.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 January 2013
Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers. Jesmyn Ward's award winning novel. Tramming and Jamming.
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Books and Arts daily January 17 2012
Li Cunxin returns to the stage. Craig Silvey's Amber Amulet. Meet deaf performer and puppeteer Asphyxia. Top Shelf: Jerry Mitchell.
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Books and Arts daily 16 January 2013
Michael Palin on The Truth, a novel. Jazz Great Eddie Palmieri. Top Shelf: Tohby Riddle.
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Books and Arts daily 15 January 2013
Moby Dick Big Read. The End of Your Life Book Club. A novel in verse: All the Way Home.
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Books and Arts Daily 14 January 2013
Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life. Zadie Smith on her new book NW . Top Shelf: Pamela Stephenson.
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Books and Arts Daily 11 January 2013
Meet New York's Finest .
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Books and Arts daily 10 January 2013
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Books and Daily 9 January 2013
Take A Tour of Broadway.
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Books and Arts daily 8 January 2013
Molly Ringwald: When It Happens to You. A new war novel: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Top Shelf: Andy Griffiths.
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Books and Arts Daily January 7 2013
Jeffrey Archer and The Sins of The Father. Herman Koch's The Dinner. The rising star of tenor Noah Stewart.
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Books and Arts Daily 4 January 2013
Salman Rushdie's new memoir, Joseph Anton. Nathan Englander's New Collection of Short Stories.
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Books and Arts Daily 3 January 2013
Revealing guilty pleasures. Reading Fifty Shades of Grey. Secretly reading comics.
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Books and Arts Daily 2 January 2013
Chloe Hooper's new novel The Engagement. James Lee Burke's new heart-pounding thriller. Bestselling Indian author Chetan Bhagat .
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Books and Arts Daily 1 January 2013
The legacy of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Australian musical theatre. Eowyn Ivey's debut novel The Snow Child.
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Books and Arts Daily 31 December 2012
90's nostalgia and the cultural paralysis of now. Ali McGregor's favourite 90's tunes. Looking back at 90's Fiction. Justin Hamilton's favourite 90's films. The Shock and Awe of the Young British Artists.
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Books and Arts Daily 28 December 2012
The new novel about the Queen's Silver Jubilee . Is Patrick White anti-Australian?
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Books and Arts Daily 27 December 2012
Roopa Farooki's new novel The Flying Man. Top Shelf: Roddy Doyle. Doctor Who writer, Rob Shearman. Cambodia's lost cinema.
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Books and Arts Daily 26 December 2012
Top Shelf: Shaun Gurton. The Censor's Library. Eve Ensler on Art and Activism.
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Books and Arts Daily 24 December 2012
Peter Carey's Chemistry of Tears. Top Shelf: John Lanchester.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-21
The Bestsellers and Best Books of 2012. The Best of the Visual Arts 2012. RN's best of 2012. Performing arts wrap 2012.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-20
Australian Classics Book Club: Seven Little Australians. Raimondo Cortese on Murder. Top Shelf: Angie Hart.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 December 2012
Edna O'Brien's Memoir, Country Girl. Women of Letters. Geek Mook.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-17
The Moulin Rouge and Toulouse-Lautrec. What should Julia Gillard read over summer? Andy Griffiths 26 Storey Treehouse. Top Shelf: David Brooks.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-14
Should teenagers read Love In The Time of Cholera? My Ideal Bookshelf. Top Shelf: Jason Chatfield. Beatrice's War, East Timor's First Feature Film.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-13
Who is cutting up the books of Scotland? Barrie Kosky's Magic Flute. Phnom Penh Noir.
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Books and Arts Daily 12 December 2012
J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing. Tom Wolfe and Justin Cronin reviewed. The Monster Meeting, Now on CD.
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Books and Arts Daily 11 December 2012
Cezanne: a new biography. Crime Writer Michael Connelly: Harry Bosch is back. Art in the home.
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Books and Arts Daily 10 December 2012
Creative Licence: Are literary texts sacred? Eleanor Hogan's Alice Springs. Rebuilding East Timor one book at a time.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-07
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Sonya Hartnett's favourite 2012 short stories. Guitar legends first chords .
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-12-06
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch dies at 103. Confessions of a bibliomaniac. I Am Here: Refugee stories on stage. Fiona Scott Norman reviews books.
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Books and Arts Daily 5 December 2012
Irish novelist Colm Toibin. Diego Marani's New Finnish Grammar. The magical world of Narnia.
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Books and Arts Daily 4 December 2012
A Better Way to Teach Shakespeare? Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Dogs in Australian Art. Black Circles on the Road: Neil Boyack’s Words from Regional Victoria .
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Books and Arts Daily 3 December 2012
Mathew Condon's Toe Tag Quintet. Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper. Rising from the ashes. A Midsummer Night's Fling.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-30
Book Club: Wake in Fright. David Brooks' novel The Conversation.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-29
Who will be the next Poetry Slam Champion of Australia? Power + Colour: Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art. Ben Elton on his most personal novel to date .
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Books and Arts Daily 28 November 2012
The hardboiled life of Raymond Chandler. The Convent. Painting for Peace: Calligraffiti.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-27
Opera Australia's new production of Salome. Tales of Kabbarli. Meet Adelaide artist Richard Maurovic. Vale Bryce Courtenay.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-26
The Art of Truth: Writerly Perspectives.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-22
A M Homes on May We be Forgiven. Barry Oakley's back on stage. Top Shelf: Stephen Garrett.
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Books and Arts Daily 21 November 2012
The Kin Collective's debut show Glimpse. Stephen Sondheim takes centre stage. A day at the zoo.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-20
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray. MAD Magazine turns 60. Amanda Lohrey Wins Patrick White Award.
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Books and Arts Daily 19 November 2012
Ian Rankin's new John Rebus novel. Perth's Ochre Contemporary Dance Company.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-16
Major exhibition of painter Francis Bacon. The future of the music industry. The long life of artist May Gibbs.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 November 2012
Ross King's take on Leonardo's The Last Supper. Janet Hawley's Artists in Conversation. Review of Chris Ware's Building Stories.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-14
The late works of Ian Fairweather. Lawrence Norfolk and John Saturnall's Feast. Fat Swan: An Adults-only Panto.
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Books and Arts Daily 13 November 2012
Wild Surmise on Stage. Is the novella making a comeback? Lily Brett and Lola Bensky.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-12
Pitching a story for television. Finding Australia's lost literary classics. Robert Drewe's new memoir Montebello.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-11-09
Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers. The Blake Art and Poetry Prize. JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy. Top Shelf: Michael Kirby.
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Books and Arts Daily 8 November 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club. The Most Underrated Book Award. New Books By Two Rock Icons, David Byrne and John Taylor. Top Shelf: David Vann.
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Books and Arts Daily 7 November 2012
Toby's Room by Pat Barker. Storm art damage overwhelms NY conservators. Why author Jon Doust is going To The Highlands .
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Books and Arts Daily 6 November 2012
The Silver Brumby Comes Back to Life. 50 Years of Fashions on the Field. Michelle de Kretser's Questions of Travel. Australian Music Month: Paul Kelly.
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Books and Arts Daily November 5 2012
The new novel by Alexander McCall Smith. Craig Silvey's Amber Amulet. The Lure of Wicked Women.
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Books and Arts Daily 2 November 2012
Best Australian Sea Stories. Zadie Smith on her new book NW . The return of repertory theatre. Australian Music Month: Janet Laurence.
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Books and Arts Daily 1 November 2012
Random House and Penguin merge to form the world's biggest publisher. Palestinian Theatre: can it help foster peace? School of hard knocks adds strings to its bow.
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Books and Arts Daily 31 October 2012
The NIDA controversy. The return of the classic children's book. Bollywood's Obsession with Hinglish. Top Shelf: Pamela Stephenson.
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Books and Arts Daily 30 October 2012
Barbara Kingsolver's new novel Flight Behaviour. The agony & ecstasy of teenage love. Jeffrey Harris at My Father's Table.
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Books and Arts Daily 29 October 2012
The state of European theatre. Top Shelf: Pico Iyer.
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Books and Arts Daily 26 October 2012
The Classic Book Club: My Brilliant Career. Arena's House of Dreaming.
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Books and Arts Daily 24 October 2012
The long, strange march of Chinese rock'n'roll. Moby Dick Big Read. The Cynical Ballads of Luke Wright.
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Books and Arts Daily 23 October 2012
James Meek's The Heart Broke In. The Family Law with strings attached. Spain's maverick man of letters.
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Books and Arts Daily 22 October 2012
Graeme Base and his Little Elephants. Nana Ohnesorge and her paintings of historical Australian figures. Courtney Collins and The Burial. Top Shelf: John Lanchester.
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Books and Arts Daily 19 October 2012
Goolwa's Big Wave Regional Arts Conference. The Rritjarukar Willy Wagtails Choir. Art and About in Sydney. Jail cells for writers.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 October 2012
Howard Jacobson's Zoo Time. Simon Crean opens Goolwa's Regional Arts Conference. Zombatland: Zombie Wombats at the Blue Lagoon Caravan Park. Robert Macfarlane's tales of travel.
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Books and Arts Daily 17 October 2012
And the Winners Are. Cate Kennedy's new book of short stories. Pamela Stephenson's The Varnished Untruth.
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Books and Arts Daily 16 October 2012
Melina Marchetta on her writing career. UK comedian turned author Mark Watson on The Knot. Patrick Dougherty's willow tree sculptures. The challenge of performing Samuel Beckett.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 October 2012
Solid Rock 30 years on. Book piracy in the digital age. Andy Griffiths 26 Storey Treehouse.
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Books and Arts Daily 12 October 2012
Mo Yan: Nobel prize for literature winner. Will Self's new novel Umbrella. Richard Zaloudek: From Laverne and Shirley to erotic surrealism. Jeanette Winterson and John Ajvide Lindqvist reviewed.
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Books and Arts Daily 11 October 2012
Guy Grey-Smith: Life Force. Val McDermid's The Vanishing Point. Soundstream: Adelaide New Music Festival. Top Shelf: Tohby Riddle.
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Books and Arts Daily 10 October 2012
After Life: A New Opera by Michel van der Aa. Kate Champion and Gregory Crewdson at the Melbourne Festival. The Great American Choreographer William Forsythe.
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Books and Arts Daily 9 October 2012
Salman Rushdie's New Memoir, Joseph Anton. Photographers and copyright. Top Shelf: Patrick Gale.
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Books and Arts Daily 8 October 2012
The Art of Jeffrey Smart. The Words. Sunny Leunig's Guide to Unhappiness. What's Making News in the Electronic Arts.
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Books and Arts Daily 5 October 2012
Utopia's Literary and Political Origins. Utopia in science fiction. Ewan Morrison's novel skewers dreams of utopian living.
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Books and Arts Daily 4 October 2012
The Science Behind Colour. The Art of Alick Tipoti. Book Reviews with Chris Flynn.
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Books and Arts Daily 3 October 2012
Should the Indigenous Art Code be mandatory? Meet Deaf Performer and Puppeteer Asphyxia. Top Shelf: Andy Griffiths.
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Books and Arts Daily 2 October 2012
Deep South: Stories from Tasmania. Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance. What The Birds Knew.
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Books and Arts Daily 1 October 2012
Li Cunxin returns to the stage. Patrick Gale's A Perfectly Good Man. Barry Tuckwell, God of the Horn.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-28
Book Club: Ruth Park's The Harp in the South. Tohby Riddle's Unforgotten.
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Books and Arts Daily 27 Sept 2012
The national arts curriculum under question. Sydney Long's dancing nymphs. Dance Energy. Sydney's Halls for Hire.
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Books and Arts Daily 26 September 2012
Molly Ringwald: When It Happens to You. The life of artist David Boyd. Top Shelf: Joanne Harris.
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Books and Arts Daily 24 September 2012
Does more money make for better books? The sulphur mines of Sicily. Habitat: The Mentoring Arts Program.
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Books and Arts Daily 21 September 2012
Debate: The pen is mightier than the brush.
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Books and Arts Daily 20 September 2012
Meet Tan Dun: Oscar winning film composer. The rising star of tenor Noah Stewart. Drought and Rain and the lasting effects of war. Maria Minerva: Estonian pop princess .
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Books and Arts Daily 19 September 2012
A tour of MOMA with Ann Tempkin. David Rimmer's 9-11 Drama. NY's writing couple, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt.
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Books and Arts Daily 18 September 2012
Anna Funder's New York. Face to Face With Antonio Monda. When Harry Met Sally at Katz's Deli. Judith Malina's Living Theatre.
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Books and Arts Daily 17 September 2012
Tony Sheldon's Broadway. Meet the star of Porgy and Bess. Jazz Singer Jack Donahue.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-14
Experimenta comes to town . Agatha Christie in Mesopotamia. The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Coming Soon: Our live debate, The Pen is Mightier than the Brush. Top Shelf: Roz Chast.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-13
Transforming Tindale: Photographs Remade and Reimagined. Meet Welsh Actor John Rhys Davies. The Woman Reader: A History.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-12
The love lives of famous writers. The Man Booker Shortlist. The Photography of Mark Kimber. Top Shelf: Morris Gleitzman.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-11
Go Figure: the best of contemporary Chinese portraiture. Fearless Nadia: Bollywood's stunt queen. Emily Perkins' The Forrests.
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Books and Arts Daily 10 September 2012
Toni Jordan's Nine Days. The ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story prize. The Iconic Images of David Bowie. Top Shelf: Sasha Frere-Jones.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-07
John Freeman's How to Read a Novelist. S for Circa at the Brisbane Festival. Len Lye, the Opera opens in New Zealand.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-06
Role reversal: Louis Nowra and James Moloney. Stories East and West. Old Paris revealed in photographs.
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Books and Arts Daily 5 September 2012
Abbas Kazerooni's childhood memoir. The niceness epidemic in online book culture? Celebrating Indigenous Literacy Day.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-09-04
John Ralston Saul's Dark Diversions. The art of Paul McDermott. Cairns' Creative Crawl.
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Books and Arts Daily 3 September 2012
John Lanchester's epic novel, Capital. James Lee Burke's new heart pounding thriller. Amy Barker wins Award for manuscript on aftermath of Port Arthur massacre.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-08-31
Pico Iyer on Graham Greene. Exploring place with David Vann and Patrick Gale. The dark side of Sweden with crime writer sa Larsson.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-08-30
Book Club: Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Crime Writer Gabrielle Lord Wins Prestigious Award.
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Books and Arts daily 29 August 2012
Chloe Hooper's new novel The Engagement. Robin Hemley on Creative Non-Fiction. Israeli Actor Evgenia Dodina and her new film Invisible .
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Books and Arts Daily 28 August 2012
Morris Gleitzman's children's books on the Holocaust. The Art Game.
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Books and Arts Daily 27 August 2012
The Big Issue Fiction Edition. What is African writing? The Sapphires wins at the AWGIEs.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-08-23
The New Yorker at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Olive Pink on stage. The Trapeze Artist by Will Davis.
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Books and Arts Daily 22 August 2012
The life of graffiti artist Banksy. Face to Face. The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt.
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Books and Arts daily 21 August 2012
Highway of Lost Hearts. Herman Koch's The Dinner. The Secret World of Teens. Top Shelf: Charlaine Harris.
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Books and Arts Daily 20 August 2012
Ireland celebrates Samuel Beckett. A new war novel: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. MTC screwball comedy His Girl Friday.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-08-17
Sydney Theatre Company's Andrew Upton. A parody of Fifty Shades of Grey. Top Girls. Top Shelf: David Levithan.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-08-16
The state of the humanities. The Pogues. Eowyn Ivey's debut novel The Snow Child.
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Books and Arts Daily 15 August 2012
New Book in the Skulduggery Series. Jasper Fforde and The Woman Who Died A Lot. The Oldest Song in the World by Sue Woolfe. John Wolseley's Artist Studio.
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Books and Arts Daily 14 August 2012
The Legacy of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Michael Robotham: Say You're Sorry. My Home Broome. Michael Lucas: Top Shelf.
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Books and Arts Daily - 2012-08-13
Darwin Festival premieres Doku Rai. Dancing with a disability. Centenary of Henry Handel Richardson's Australian return.
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Books and Arts Daily 10 August 2012
Welcome To Normal. Indonesia's Nan Jombang Dance Company. The life and work of Robert Hughes.
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Books and Arts Daily 9 August 2012
Meet Broadway choreographer Jerry Mitchell . The relationship between music and empathy. Yarn-bombing for Pussy Riot . Top Shelf: Jeanette Winterson.
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Books and Arts Daily 7 August 2012
Vale Robert Hughes. Australia's bohemians. The modern Aboriginal art movement. Top Shelf: David Williamson.
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Books and Arts daily 6 August 2012
Poetry Pentathlon: when verse was an Olympic sport. Indonesia's best selling novelist. Hand Made Music Festival. DART: what's hot in the digital arts.
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