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‘The Summer at Opouri Bay’, by Harriet McKnight
Image courtesy of the artist.It had taken them five hours to drive up to Opouri Bay. The sun had sunk low by the time camp was set up, so Moll wasn’t allowed to go down to the beach. They were having...
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Issue 27: in stores today
TLB27 is finally here, and on shelves in stores today! Grab your copy now.The Lifted Brow relaunched earlier this year with a new format and new overall design, and we have been astounded by how many...
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‘If I Work Hard Then I’ll Get Rich Too, Right?’, by Claire Feain
Illustration by Jacob Zinman-JeanesIs Australia really the land of the ‘fair go’?Every Monday afternoon at 3:30pm, I rush out of the northern Melbourne high school where I work as a teacher and drive...
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Coming Up Short: My Literary Hero Returns With a Whimper: a review of China...
The first thing you have to know about China Miéville is that he’s a bit of a badarse. Just look at the guy: I would not mess with him. But listen to him speak. He’s basically the Chuck Norris of the...
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SHORT INTERVIEW: LALE WESTVIND, TLB27 FEATURE ARTIST
To celebrate the unveiling of the killer cover artwork for TLB27, our Art Editor Katie Parrish quizzed NYC-based comics artist and animator Lale Westvind, in the second of our series of short...
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XCLUSIV: TONEZ JURNEY IZ NOT @ N END Last night we thought we...
XCLUSIV: TONEZ JURNEY IZ NOT @ N ENDLast night we thought we were saying goodbye to Tone.But this morning The Lifted Brow has the exclusive scoop: he’s going on to bigger and better things.Click here...
View Article'Jefferson & 14th': A Mixtape by Hayley Stockall
Jefferson & 14th: A Mixtape by Hayley Stockall for The Lifted BrowHe had been in the city a week or two before I got there. This played on my mind more than I would have liked. Had he ridden in...
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SHORT INTERVIEW: LALE WESTVIND, TLB27 FEATURE ARTIST
To celebrate the unveiling of the killer cover artwork for TLB27, our Art Editor Katie Parrish quizzed NYC-based comics artist and animator Lale Westvind, in the second of our series of short...
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‘how i started writing an essay about ‘side eye’ but then couldn’t and the...
Image by jurek. d. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Earlier this year, our digital magazine was re-launched under the name Side Eye. We were unaware of the AAVE...
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Excerpt: ‘But they have to be somewhere!’, by Zora Sanders
Photo by Renegade98. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Last year, a woman was on a bus tour in Iceland when one of the members of her tour group failed to return to...
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‘Everything Is Always About Sex: A Review of the 6 Books Shortlisted for The...
Photo by ohmann alianne. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.My friends and I talk a lot about sex. I learnt how to give a blowjob from my two best friends in my...
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‘Ursula, Chapter 7: Drunk Souls’, A Serial Comic By Michael Hawkins
This is the seventh instalment of ‘Ursula’, a comic by Michael Hawkins we’re currently serialising. Catch up on chapters one, two, three, four, five and six.In the awful new world after the spectacle,...
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”My jealousy is romantic”: a review of ‘The Bit In Between’ by Claire Varley,...
“This is how it starts. A young man sits alone in an airport lounge. The seat beside him is empty. Someone sits down.” That person is Alison, the girl the young man is going to fall in love with very...
View Article‘attrition attrition attrition’, by Dan Thorpe
or, hello my name is dan and i’m dying slowly from the stress and constant attrition of being an artist & academic in australia.selected verbatim diary entries, links, tweets and texts. write...
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Excerpt: ‘Planet Dandruff’, by Sam Kriss
Photo by wolfgangfoto. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.In late 2007, an advertising agency based in Manchester produced what is generally recognised to be the most...
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‘Tom McCarthy, the Disinterested Novelist’, by Michael G. Donkin
I was so sickened by what I had just witnessed that I turned to throw up against the wall in front of the Aida coffeehouse…Thomas BernhardThere is nothing to be learned or enjoyed in Tom McCarthy’s...
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‘Love at first line: First lines from the Tinder bios of 100 men’, by Kaitlyn...
Photo by Michael Coghlan. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Trying to find her again!!Hi.Hello!!Hey I’m Matt :) I have 2 jobs I have fought and beaten.How you...
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Excerpt: ‘What if the animal said no?’, by Briohny Doyle
Photo by Rick Harris. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.On May 27th of this year, the US Supreme Court heard the case for two adult male chimps, Hercules and Leo, to...
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‘Sacred Turf’: A Review of Gerald Murnane’s ‘Something For The Pain’, by...
We have long since stopped associating authors with the once-glamorous activity of gambling. For some time, however, the two seemed to go hand in hand. Famously, Dostoevsky sped up his execution of...
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Excerpt: “The Critic in the Episode ‘Break Ups’”, by Jana Perkovic
Photo by Marion Doss. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.1. in which the Critic is revealed to be a cynical arseholeMore than other art forms — except perhaps cinema...
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