It has been seven long Tobias-less years since the Bluth family was rudely yanked off TV screens. Which means it’s also been seven years that an Arrested Development reunion has been dangled in front of our faces.

For 11 literary-packed days from May 23 to June 2, Melbourne's Emerging Writers' Festival will celebrate, support and cajole the words out of the nation's fledgling wordsmiths.

The slightly wonky owner-builder architecture of the Northern Rivers region has been condensed into an exhibition– and now a book – at Lismore Regional Gallery.

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College kind of flew under the radar when he first delivered it to a hall of graduates. Three years later, after his tragic death, the simple sermon about life’s little things has taken on a deeper weight.

Snitch is a tense crime-drama, but the most nerve-racking element is this: can Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson act?

Since its inaugural festival in 2009, VIVID Sydney has quickly established itself as the best reason to get out of the house as the city descends into its antipodean winter. 

If The Lifted Brow was a band, then we could look at its first 16 issues as a series of most excellent singles and EPs.

You wouldn't expect to find talks about designer suburbs, presidential campaigns, conceptual art and the soft power of Tasmania at a writer's festival. But the 2013 Sydney Writers' Festival thwarts expectations. 

Forget the HBO static or the Showtime lasers: the true sign of quality programing is a portly man staring down the barrel of the camera and drolly intoning: “Good evening ladies and gentlemen.”

A music video that pairs punk band Rancid with the works of pioneering conceptual artist Sol Lewitt is what this is.