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‘Wild Dog Years’, by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Photograph by Derek Lee. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Animal: a living creature. —L. a breathing creature. —L. anima, breathSome sort of canine, I reckon. My...
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Full digitisation of The Lifted Brow has been achieved, your honour.Hey! Do you want to read The Lifted Brow but can’t get your mitts on—or don’t want—the print version?Our iOS app now delivers each...
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“Sovereign Apocalypse Zine Two″, A review by Ellen van Neerven
The second issue of black-made and -owned Sovereign Apocalypse (SOVAPOC for short) is essential reading.What is Sovereign Apocalypse? I hadn’t heard of it, perhaps from living in Queensland. (We miss...
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‘Lists’, by Christopher Currie
BEATBOXING GLOSSARY Pitsh - Mouthsound Fzidip - Tooth breakdown Atisss - Coda Burrrruuup - Glissando, with mouth Drmbt - Drumbeat Kizzaj - Small metronome, or child’s xylophone Wshtka - “Keep it fresh”...
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Excerpt: ‘Humans pretending to be computers pretending to be humans’, by...
Image by Wolfgang von Kempelen - Copper engraving from Freiherr Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz, Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen, 1789. Licensed under Public DomainIn 1770, Wolfgang von...
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“The Shape of Things to Come,” by Sophie Allan
Rosemary Laing, The Paper, Tuesday, 2013.“Climate has features but is not an object. And it changes, so time, and particularly seasonal time, is integral to climate. It is also space – the cleanliness...
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“Salt”, by Madeleine Watts
Photo by Art Jessen. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseMy mother had a house in the Blue Mountains, has a house up there still. I went up to there after I did the Bad...
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‘The Critic’s Heart Will Go On’, by Rebecca Harkins-Cross
At the National Writers’ Conference at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, four of Australia’s best emerging arts critics appeared on a panel, ostensibly representing the critical analysis of four...
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‘It’s 2015, of Course it’s Feminist’, by Jane Howard
At the National Writers’ Conference at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, four of Australia’s best emerging arts critics appeared on a panel, ostensibly representing the critical analysis of four...
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‘Reviewing and the Long Way Round (to anger)’, by James Tierney
At the National Writers’ Conference at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, four of Australia’s best emerging arts critics appeared on a panel, ostensibly representing the critical analysis of four...
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‘Live-Streaming Our Music Criticism?’ by Chad Parkhill
At the National Writers’ Conference at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, four of Australia’s best emerging arts critics appeared on a panel, ostensibly representing the critical analysis of four...
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‘Exit Survey’, by Lee Tran Lam
Photo by Thomas Anderson. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseREASONS WE BROKE UP- It was fun and it was fun and it was fun and then it was Groundhog Day. It was a...
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‘Large Large White Flowers’, by Eileen Myles
Photo by Parshotam Lal Tandon. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseI’m using this it’s large it could leave it could change inside of changing is hanging everyone...
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Excerpt: ‘Give Me Luxury or Give Me Death’, by Briohny Doyle
Photo by Philip Taylor. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.They are building an artificial, palm-shaped archipelago off the coast of Dubai. Palm Jumeirah, the first...
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‘Four Hours in Ciudad Juarez’, by Lucas Smith
Photograph courtesy of Djavid Amidi-Abraham.Last October I drove from New York to San Francisco with my childhood friend Djavid. We took the leisurely route through the less wintery south. After...
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‘Eggplant’, by Helen Addison-Smith
Illustration by Michael Hawkins.The first time I smelt eggplant frying, I was eighteen years old and over at my new friend Eleni Papadakis’s parents’ place. The house had exposed brick and bronze...
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ICYMI: TLB26 CAN BE YOURS
(You can now buy it direct from our website.)Cover art by Nicky Minus. Photography by Alan Weedon.In the past weeks we’ve launched TLB26 with parties in both Sydney and Melbourne, and we have been...
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“Untitled” by Kuzhali Manickavel
Photography by Vicki Wolkins. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attributions 2.0 Generic License.First we pretend it is America. I pretend that we are having a barbecue in the backyard, that we...
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TLB26 now out, digitally
Okay! The first digital volume of TLB26 is now out. Those of you who are digital subscribers would’ve already received a cute little notification on your device letting you know; those of you who...
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Excerpt: ‘Annihilation by Blandness’, by Dennis Altman
Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.At the turn of the century I became bored writing about...
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