After a month of solid listening, The National’s High Violet has revealed itself as a likely Album of the Year.

Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre is facing an embarrassing situation: its “literary speed dating” event does not have enough men.

This observational French romance rewards the patient viewer with a subtle tale of a restrained and largely inarticulate affair.

Her abrupt ascendancy to the top of the political pile was ground-breaking but is Julia Gillard really what we’ve been waiting for: Australia’s first foreign-born, unmarried, atheist, ranga, female prime minister?

Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher’s contemporary dance piece captures the ending of a relationship, in all its futile, fragile agony.

Look over your shoulder and sleep with one eye open, Mr Brown – the conspiracy thriller novel industry isn’t just yours these days.

Eleven years after we last saw Woody, Buzz and their friends, the Toy Story gang return in a funny, poignant and richly satisfying final adventure.

US expat Emmett Stinson looks back to his homeland in the alienated aftermath of September 11. But how do these idiosyncratically American stories play out in an Australian literary context?

Geek out, for the brand new season of Futurama begins airing in the US this week, thus continuing the millennia-spanning rivalry between louche robots and heartless television executives.