n+1 is a literary journal about American culture. It's a youthful rival to the New Yorker, Paris Review and McSweeney's Believer, but slightly more approachable and not as snooty.

If ever an author deserved to be on a postage stamp it's the flushbunking, swizzfiggling, lickswishy genius Roald Dahl.

Mark Twain once said, "Every house needs a room to swear in." 

Buster Keaton was inches away from sudden death when that house dropped on him. Fortunately for William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg, animating similar stunts is way less dangerous.  

Over the last decade and a half Alain de Botton has carved a niche for himself as the world's pre-eminent evangelist of popular philosophy. 

Everyone's favourite humorist/memoirist/affably neurotic homosexual has landed in Australia for a rapid-fire national tour.  

The launch of The Moat cafe gives us a top excuse to tell you about The Wheeler Centre, an incredible resource for writing, lectures and ideas in Melbourne.

Philosopher, author, traveller and Smith Journal contributor Alain de Botton is touching down in Australia early next year.

Cormac McCarthy wrote The Road and No Country for Old Men, but we're pretty sure he never penned a piece on Taco Bell, until now. If you're a fan of the great man, read on.

A future wherein used books are sold in secret sounds like a dystopian nightmare. But that's what's come to pass for Michael Seidenberg.