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‘A Tear in Flatland: Nick Sousanis’s “Unflattening”’, by Matt Finch
Cover image courtesy of Harvard University Press.Today we’re proud to publish an unusual review of an unusual book. Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening is an essay in comic book form, exploring the frontiers...
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‘Several Brief Accounts of Being On Holiday’, by Chris Somerville
Photo by Stig Nygaard. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseA friend tells us about how she’d gone on a silent retreat for nine days. She wasn’t allowed to talk or use...
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‘Moon Cycle,’ by Molly Rose Dyson
‘Moon Cycle’ originally appeared in The Lifted Brow: Digital, Volume 11: The Space Issue.Molly Rose Dysonis an illustrator from Australia, living in Germany. Find her illustrations at...
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Excerpt: ‘A Brief History of Light,’ by Upulie Divisekera
Photo by jimflix! Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.“What language does light speak? Vowels hang down from the pepper tree in their green and their gold.” – Charles...
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‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being Corporeal’, by Elmo Keep
When you were a kitten I found you in the pet store on my twentieth birthday, sleeping with your seven brothers. Huddled in a row, all facing the same way, except you: squeezed right in the middle, the...
View Article‘Meatball Tennis’, by Albonk Sedevant’s Elbon...
‘Meatball Tennis’, by Albonk Sedevant’s Elbon KnoblaMate, did you catch the big game on the weekend? I mean, far out, you wouldn’t have wanted to miss it! The way the marinara sauce left those...
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Unearthed: the last remaining copies of ‘The Best of The Lifted Brow, Volume...
We just found hidden and buried under piles of Brow back issues 1 x small box of The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume One. What secret delights disorganisation can bring!This anthology has been marked...
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‘Wetskins’, by Ellen van Neerven
Photo by Hernán Piñera. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseBrothers on their backs, side by side at the end of the spit, feet over ocean, sun everywhere else. No one...
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‘Masterpieces from the National Program for Excellence in the Arts: The...
During a packed press conference at the Rupert Murdoch Memorial Building this morning, the National BHP Billiton Gallery of Victoria officially opened a major exhibition marking the 200th anniversary...
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THE LIFTED BROW DIGITAL 26.2 now available to download
The second instalment of The Lifted Brow 26 is here! Shameful new comics from Nicky Minus; relearn your sexual education in Law School; Chris Somerville recounts his holiday for your amusement; Helen...
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Interview: Nicky Minus, TLB26 Feature Artist
Nicky Minus is an illustrator and comic maker from Sydney. Her work graces the cover of The Lifted Brow #26 as well as four pages of excellent colour comics inside the issue, and has appeared...
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‘A Wildly Casual Web Conversation with Three Web Poets’, by Evan Fleischer
Photo by William Warby. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseBob Schofield, Dalton Day, and Key Ballah: I spoke with them all fairly recently. I’d come to know them and...
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Excerpt: ‘Player’, by Samuel Wagan Watson
Image by Vik. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.I often play this game and now and then I find it quite satisfying. A game can involve a handful of players and at...
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‘Ways Towards and Around Blake Butler’, by Justin Wolfers
Image courtesy of Harper Perennial for 300,000,000 by Blake Butler.There’s a whirlpool of diversity and happy cross-contamination to writer and editor Blake Butler, through which trying to construct a...
View Article"The Critic moved to Australia on a big wave of love for a man who then...
“The Critic moved to Australia on a big wave of love for a man who then gradually slipped into a comatose depression. Her early twenties were spent learning how to cope with isolation, loneliness, and...
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“”Without Limits: Miguel Gomes’ ‘Arabian Nights’”, by James Robert Douglas
Arabian Nights Vol 1: The Restless OneMiguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights trilogy begins with a series of shots of a shipyard in Viana do Castelo – the camera apparently drifting on a boat easing past the...
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Launching in Melbourne, and you should be there if you can be...
Launching in Melbourne, and you should be there if you can be there.
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Jenn Shapland’s ‘The Tracks’ — up now on LitHub
In advance of our publication of Issue 27, our good friends over at Literary Hub are featuring an essay from this issue: Jenn Shapland’s ‘The Tracks’. It’s a quiet and forceful piece, one that...
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‘Notes and Ideas and Questions for a Review of Miles Allinson’s Fever of...
Image courtesy of Scribe.1. Miles Allinson frames the narrative of his twenty-something journey through Europe with a present-day (and now thirty-something) search for the surrealist-turned-realist...
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Three Poems by Susie Anderson
Image by Lara Lima. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.perfect alphabeti heard that the shape of Korean characters is the way the mouth looks when forming those...
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