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‘The Thrilling Teeth of Feeling Everything at Once: a Review of Eileen...
On the coffee table ventti filters spill loose like pieces of a board game. You can’t buy them in those long sticks anymore unless you know which 7-eleven to hit up and it turns out I don’t. Bobby pins...
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For this first grand month of 2016, The Lifted Brow has been the magazine of the month at Stack Magazines — meaning that our current issue has been sent out to thousands of Stack Magazines subscribers...
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Excerpt: ‘The Loneliest Heart’, by Rebecca Harkins-Cross
Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887. The Detroit Institute of Arts.In Paul Cox’s Vincent (1987), he makes a cameo in the final moments as a mourner laying sunflowers on Van Gogh’s...
View ArticleVideo Essay: ‘Vincent’, by Conor Bateman
The Brow are chuffed to today bring our first video essay to the world. In ‘Vincent’, Conor Bateman looks at the way words and images are re-purposed to talk about art in the work of Australian...
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browcontribs: TextaQueen is Australia’s felt-tip superhero. Her...
browcontribs:TextaQueen is Australia’s felt-tip superhero.Her artwork appears in TLB26.Featured Contributor: TextaQueen
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Our Family Religion: Transkinship in ‘Transparent’, by Dion Kagan
Illustration by Camilla Perkins.TRANSPARENT IS A FAMILY DRAMA-COMEDY that circles around the later-in-life gender transition of Maura Pfefferman. Maura, born ‘Mort’ (Jeffrey Tambor), is a retired...
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FIRST DIGITAL INSTALMENT OF ‘TLB28 | THE ART ISSUE’ IS NOW AVAILABLE VIA OUR APP
We make every issue of our print magazine available to read digitally (via our free-to-download app), splitting each issue into three instalments. We do this because the work we publish is first and...
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Excerpt: ‘Walking Through a Dream: Contemplating the Procedural Art of Secret...
Secret Habitat (Strangethink, 2014)Games often require us to assert ourselves over the world through forms of conflict. We engage in tests of skill, and we learn the rules of a world so we can change...
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An interview with Shawn Wen
Image by Amanda Leiba - 2004 Fall Festival in Duluth, Georgia. Licensed under Public DomainShawn Wen is a writer, radio documentarian and multimedia artist. Her essay, ‘Disappearing in Duluth’ examines...
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‘Shapeshifting in the Year of the Monkey’ by Lia Incognita
Photo by Jonathan Kos-Reed. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence.There’s this game. It’s the sort of exercise you might do as an icebreaker in the first...
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browcontribs: Photograph by Jean Malek. Margaret Atwood is the...
browcontribs:Photograph by Jean Malek.Margaret Atwood is the author of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her novels The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind...
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Excerpt: ‘Vile Bodies’, by Elizabeth Caplice
Marlene Dumas, Jule-die Vrou, 1985. Saatchi Gallery.There are few things I crave more than formlessness for my own body. I crave a body without organs. I look at Marlene Dumas’ Jule-die Vrou and wish...
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‘@artcleanse’, by Callum Rory Mitchell
Images by Callum Rory Mitchell.Attempting to live-tweet my ten-day master cleanse via @artcleanse, I was hoping to come to forming a personal account and critique but instead entered a wavy headspace,...
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Excerpt from ‘A Murder Without Motive’, by Martin McKenzie-Murray
Photo by Anthony Hevron. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Licence.In 2013, as part of our special Perth-themed issue, we published an excerpt from Martin...
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Artwork by Merv Heers, from TLB #28: The Art Issue
Artwork by Merv Heers, from TLB #28: The Art Issue
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browcontribs: Martin McKenzie-Murray is the chief correspondent...
browcontribs:Martin McKenzie-Murray is the chief correspondent of The Saturday Paper. He is a former Canberra speechwriter, columnist for the Age, and adviser to the chief commissioner of Victoria...
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‘The Anna Karenina Principle: Living In and Through Steve Toltz’s...
Photo by Jes Mugley. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Licence.The first time I read Quicksand by Steve Toltz, I was sad. The second time, six months...
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Second Digital Instalment of ‘TLB28 | The Art Issue’ Is Now Available Via Our...
We make every issue of our print magazine available to read digitally (via our free-to-download app), splitting each issue into three instalments. We do this because the work we publish is first and...
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The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction is...
We are thrilled to announce that The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction is back!Running for the second time ever, the prize calls on boundary-pushing non-fiction...
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‘Battle Hymn for the Avant Garde: a review of Jack Cox’s “Dodge Rose”’, by...
In at least an extra-literary way, Jack Cox’s debut novel Dodge Rose has arrived with discrete fanfare but very impressive highbrow endorsement. Cox, a former Masters of Philosophy at the University of...
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