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We’re Looking for Non-Fiction for the 35th Issue of Our Print Magazine!
Do you write non-fiction? Would you like to be published in the 35th issue of our flagship quarterly attack journal, The Lifted Brow? If so, we have some news for you: we’re looking for completed...
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‘Young Adults of the Corn: A Review of John Darnielle’s ”Universal...
“People shoot movies on soundstages that they try to make look like Nevada,” writes John Darnielle early in his second novel, Universal Harvester. They mostly fail in their efforts, though, unable to...
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‘Inheriting Colombo’, by Fiona Wright
Image by Philippe Arpels. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License. PettahPackets of men’s underwear thrust in my face, the happy plastic of...
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Come to the 2017 Experimental Non-Fiction Workshop!
ABOUTIn the lead-up to the May 29 submission date for The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLab’s Prize for Experimental Non-fiction, we are running a seminar focusing on the histories and practices of...
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Excerpt: ‘Which Treats of Lázaro’s Account of the Friendship He Shared with a...
Image by gskx. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License. Have you ever seen out in the country at midday an electric bulb aglow? I have seen one. It is one of...
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‘Pink Horror: The Violent Feminine in Nicola Maye Goldberg’s “Other Women”’,...
We know tragic women. The well-loved trope of doomed women, fictional or historical, is both overused and comforting in literature; immediately recognisable, somehow soothing. In Nicola Maye Goldberg’s...
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Two Poems by Alison Whittaker
Image by DevonshireMedia. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.sparse shit poemHeard you hurtin’ Got you this Sparse shit...
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Poems by James Brown
Image by Vern. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.if you like someone you want to try to touch their genitalsbefore that though you have to try...
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Women in Sport: ‘The Physical is Feminine’, by Brunette Lenkić
Daily News (Perth), 14 Apr 1950.This essay is the first in a week-long series of commentary pieces that explore women’s experience in sporting culture.Active women can change the world. And that might...
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Women in Sport: ‘Fuck You, Bobby Fischer: The Emotional Labour of Playing...
Illustrations by Michelle Baginski. This essay is the second in a week-long series of commentary pieces that explore women’s experience in sporting culture.The English OpeningWriting this down for the...
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Women in Sport: ‘Under The Covers: sponsorship, spectatorship, and sexism in...
Image by Serge Zacharias. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.This essay is the third in a week-long series of commentary pieces that explore women’s...
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Women in Sport: ‘Out on Instagram: Are Elite Sportswomen Changing What Coming...
Image copyright Lyndall Irons. Used with permission.This essay is the fourth in a week-long series exploring women’s experiences in sporting culture.It’s Valentine’s Day 2017. Chloe Logarzo and Jasmine...
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Women in Sport: ‘Surfing Is My Feminist Origin Story (in That I Left for the...
This is the fifth and final piece in a week-long series about women’s experiences in sporting culture.We crowded around the TV in a sweaty demountable and watched footage of the high-school surfing...
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Women in sport wrap-up
Image provided by Holly Isemonger. Daily News (Perth), 14 Apr 1950.This week we published an online series of commentary pieces that explored women’s experience in and of sporting culture. A huge thank...
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Arts Coverage in Australia: How Fucked Really Are We?
Image by Laurie Rojas, after ‘The Critic Sees’ by Jasper Johns. Used with permission.After several recent blows to the journalism industry in Australia, we at TLB are feeling especially despondent...
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Revealed: TLB34 Cover and Contents!
Sharp-eyed Facebook friends of the Brow’s will have already seen a sneaky peek of TLB34’s cover, but it’s now official – here are the cover and contents of issue thirty-four of our quarterly attack...
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Excerpt: ‘Claudia and Beth, Outside Target’, by Colin Winnette
Image by Mike Mozart. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.Beth was cross-legged on one of the big red balls. Claudia was fishing Hawaiian BBQ out of a styrofoam...
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‘Trash-Man ♥︎s Maree’, by WP Newnham
Photo by Nic Tinker. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs2.0 Generic License.Entries for our third annual Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction close in just a...
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Come Celebrate the Launch of TLB34!
Issue 34 of The Lifted Brow is here and we want to celebrate! Join us for a short but oh-so-sweet get-together in the garden of The Alderman.When: Saturday, 10th June. Time: 6:30-8:30pm Where: The...
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‘Now What? A Review of “They Cannot Take the Sky”’, by Shirley Le
They Cannot Take the Sky is a collection of first-hand accounts of mandatory detention. I read the stories on the way to work, sitting on the Bankstown Line train among other city-bound commuters. One...
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