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Contemporary crime fiction has moved beyond conventional genre tropes

Just don’t call it ‘literary’

50 Artists: 50 Years celebrates five decades of Illawarra and Australian art

Exhibition features works by renowned artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre and Paul Ryan

A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town

In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed

James Bradley’s thrilling, unsettling crime novel is set in a flooded Sydney in 2050

The sun will come out tomorrow: remembering the life and music of Charles Strouse

The legendary composer behind hits like Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie has died at 96