Dailies

Yesterday: Google agrees huge book scanning deal with Italian libraries and Geoff Dyer on comic novels, Philip Roth and being good at sport

China visa snub for Robert Dessaix

Paul Kelly sings at A Gala Night of Storytelling and Irvine Welsh at the Wheeler Centre

Sarah Dunant talks to Louise Swinn about art, sex and religion and Malcolm Fraser at the Baptist Church online now

Geoff Dyer at the Wheeler Centre: final tickets released

Lunchbox/ Soapbox: George Megalogenis on the Kevin Rudd Performance Index. Comment now and The Wheeler Centre comes to the Fed Square Book Market

IQ2 debates the future of nuclear power at Melbourne Town Hall tonight , Germaine Greer: 40 years after The Female Eunuch and Wheeler Centre events now on audio and video podcast

Final tickets for tonight's Malcolm Fraser released, Revered for his reportage, Ryszard Kapuscinski is accused of blurring fact and fiction and From Tolkien to Tolstoy: Australian MPs name their favourite books

Late release tickets for tomorrow night's Malcolm Fraser and So Much for That: Lionel Shriver's new novel on the fallout of current US health care policy

Chopin: 'the poet of the keyboard' would be 200 today , the Wheeler Centre tonight: Tom Cho, Andrew Croome, Lisa Dempster and LK Holt and Writers' Week begins at the Adelaide Festival

Wheeler Centre newsletter and Meat & Livestock Australia responds to Peter Singer's call for a beef tax