An Excerpt from 'The Shaman’s Egg', by David Owen Kelly
Illustration by Susy CirinaA strap of bark soaks curled up in a bucket of red liquid beside a man outside the Hospital Adolfo Guevara Velasco. Next to him an old woman sits with a top hat on, beside a...
View ArticleThe Best of 2014 from The Lifted Brow: Online
Photograph by Charlotta Wasteson. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.This year was the first time we’ve commissioned work specifically for The Lifted Brow: Online. To...
View Article'Of Mice and Men and Medicine', by Rhianna Boyle
Photograph by Mycroyance. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.Many of us are genetically predisposed to at least one health problem, but you can rest assured that at least you...
View Article'Not That Kind of Bourgeois Woman: A Bourgeois Woman Tells You What She’s...
The dust has settled on Mm. Dunham’s débuts littéraires, and the consensus reached by the bourgeoisie petit du monde seems to be that the author is some kind child molester, possibly false-rape...
View ArticleUmami: A Poetic Experiment
The Lifted Brow: Online is excited to announce that submissions are now open for a special collaborative project in which we will be partnering up with Australia’s best poetry publication, Cordite....
View ArticleThe latest instalment of Sam Wallman's series 'Ashtrayan Hishtry...
The latest instalment of Sam Wallman's series 'Ashtrayan Hishtry through Political Cartoons', in The Lifted Brow #24: The Medicine Issue. penerasespaper:Ashtrayan Histry thru pliticl cartoons#6, from...
View Article'Serbs and the City: Ring a Ding', by Sofija Stefanovic
Photograph by the author.This is the third instalment of ‘Serbs and the City’, Sofija Stefanovic’s column about her experiences as a Serbian-Australian living ambivalently in New York. Read the first...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: David Foster Wallace browcontribs: David...
Featured Contributor: David Foster Wallacebrowcontribs:David Foster Wallace was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer and essayist. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite...
View Article'Ursula, Chapter 5: Vexed and Queasy', a Serial Comic by Michael Hawkins
This is the fifth instalment of ‘Ursula’, a comic by Michael Hawkins we’re currently serialising. Catch up on chapters one, two, three and four.I’m standing in our yard in front of this tree. Fluffy...
View ArticleAn illustration by Camilla Perkins in The Lifted Brow #24: The...
An illustration by Camilla Perkins in The Lifted Brow #24: The Medicine Issue.
View ArticleAn Australia Day mixtape from Max Easton
January 26 is a great time of year to celebrate the success of the white Australian cultural monolith; a great time for the lamb industry, major breweries and souvenir shops to cash in on the national...
View ArticleA Relaunchment! with modern magazine expert Christopher Currie
"I don’t like to brag, but when a certain editor at a certain world-famous Australian literary magazine contacted me—his voice full of clear, unadulterated desperation—I told him everything would be...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Koren Helbig browcontribs: Koren Helbig...
Featured Contributor: Koren Helbigbrowcontribs:Koren Helbig is an Australian freelance writer mostly keeping her clothes on in Spain, who blogs from She Makes Magic.Read her piece ‘Bare Necessity’ in...
View ArticleIntroducing Side Eye: A Digital Magazine from The Lifted Brow
Side Eye, a monthly digital magazine brought to you by the folks at The Lifted Brow, publishes new and contemporary work only: snappy fiction, poetry, non-fiction, comics, art, and mixed media from...
View Article'Friendship Bouquet: A Review of Simon Hanselmann’s "Megahex"', by Leonie...
Right after midnight, as 2014 became 2015, somewhere in Tasmania I was about to hug my friend happy new year. Right before I did he said, deadpan, sarcastically, “Doesn’t it feel different?” and I kind...
View ArticleFeatured Contributor: Leonie Brialey browcontribs: Leonie...
Featured Contributor: Leonie Brialeybrowcontribs:Leonie Brialey is a cartoonist and musician from Perth, Western Australia, living and studying in Melbourne, Victoria.Read her work in TLB 16 and TLB...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now? Brow Interns Edition.
We are now accepting applications for internships! As such, we thought we’d have a quick chat with a few past TLB interns. Interning at TLB is a famous experience, guaranteed to result in fame, and...
View ArticleRegarding 'Side Eye'
Recently at The Lifted Brow we made a very large mistake.In renaming our digital magazine Side Eye we did not know of the term’s origins in AAVE until well after it was chosen, the design was laid out...
View Article‘Fragments of Magic: On Reading and Sometimes Seeing Lally Katz’, by Jane Howard
Lally Katz in Stories I Want To Tell You In Person. Image by Heidrun Lohr.November 2011I am not in Melbourne, so I will not see Return to Earth play at Melbourne Theatre Company. Instead, I am living...
View ArticleTone Ask Hiz Kabinet 4 Halp Want more Tone? Click here. Follow...
Tone Ask Hiz Kabinet 4 HalpWant more Tone? Click here.Follow The Lifted Brow on Tumblr or Twitter or like us on Facebook to be the first to know about Tone’s next comic.
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