'Bloody Horizons: Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road', by Rebecca Harkins-Cross
The title of Ivan Sen’s latest film Mystery Road appears on an arrow-shaped sign, pointing down one of the many highways traversed by his characters. Ochre light stains the dimming horizon, as if the...
View ArticleMelbourne readers! Come celebrate our 7th birthday with us
The first edition of The Lifted Brow had listed on its masthead the very exact publication date of “19th January, 2007”. Since then, the Brow has: — published twenty giant print issues— staged over...
View Article'THE BEST OF THE LIFTED BROW: VOLUME ONE' — now available to purchase in our...
Buy it direct from us and we’ll post it out to you immediately."Since 2007, The Lifted Brow has grown into Australia’s most exciting literary magazine, publishing hot local talent like Benjamin Law,...
View ArticleRECOMMENDATIONS
In each issue of the Brow, in the Middlebrow arts and culture lift-out section, we publish a handful of ‘recommendations’ from our favourite writers. It’s just people recommending you do/read/listen...
View Article'Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?' by Aden Rolfe
(illustration by Sab Meynert)Picture a room containing two things: a piece of wire, and a plastic tube with a small bucket of food at the bottom. The objective is to retrieve the food, but the tube...
View ArticleBye Ronnie! Hello Katie!
We are very sad to announce that Ronnie Scott, the Brow's Art Editor (and Founder!), is stepping down from all art commissioning duties.Ronnie has been almost 100% solely responsible for organising all...
View Article'Elephants in the Top End, Kangaroos in the Top Paddock: The Colourful...
(illustration by Bonnie Eichelberger)In 1861, the Governor of Victoria received a letter requesting that monkeys be released into the Victorian bush. In the words of the Governor, Sir Henry Barclay,...
View Articlesome comics/artwork from Issue 20
Nicky MinusInes EstradaNoel Freibert - ‘Moderate Torture’Michael Litven - ‘datastream’_____________________________________These pieces are from our most recent print issue, TLB20. You can grab a copy...
View Article'Boring', by André Dao
What exactly is boredom? In his book on the aesthetics of failure, Boring Formless Noise, composer eldritch Priest describes it as “a lessening of one’s capacity to affect and be affected – a...
View ArticleRaging Against ‘Against the Rage Machine’, by Kat Muscat
It began with a Facebook share. And then another, followed in rapid succession by three more. An editorial published in the most recent issue of n+1—and republished online—titled ‘Against the Rage...
View ArticleCopies of TLB 20 still available. Please visit out store...
Copies of TLB 20 still available. Please visit out store and peruse our wares, many fine delights reside therein, waiting to receive your gentle eyeballs. We’re on iPad too.
View ArticleHave you had occasion lately to ogle our contributors? Gaze upon...
Have you had occasion lately to ogle our contributors? Gaze upon them.
View ArticleDigital Brow relaunched with 'The 3D Yellow Man Edition'
Yesterday we relaunched the Brow’s digital editions for 2014, with ‘THE 3D YELLOW MAN EDITION’.After a brief hiatus while we sorted out our ‘shit’, we’re back delivering new and improved content via...
View Articleum, look, it's the contents page of our about-to-be-printed Sex Issue
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View ArticleTLB21 — The Sex Issue
Issue 21 of Australia’s most interesting magazine — The Sex IssueTLB21 is our long-awaited Sex Issue — a bumper entire 88-page edition of the magazine dedicated to discussing, criticising and...
View ArticleTHE SEX ISSUE: BAGGED UP NICE AND TIGHT, WITH A HOT LITTLE PINK BIT SHOWING
The Sex Issue: 56 contributors, 88 pages, free condom, $12.Make yours part of the sexy subscriber giveaway.
View Article'The Honey Jar', by Sam George-Allen
Maybe it was a coincidence that I started to re-examine magic when I started crushing again, but they both felt supernatural. If love is the meeting of two of the strongest human drives—fear and...
View Article"Brief Reviews of NYC Summer Dates", by H D Thompson
On a recent trip to New York, I had some free time up my sleeve and at the suggestion of a friend, began an online dating quest to immerse myself in the city and get to know the locals and all that...
View Article"Literature, Sex and Death: On Reading Supervert’s Necrophilia Variations",...
“We were at a party, you and I, in celebration of a long-forgotten cause for joy.” A girl sits at a table with a book in her hands. She’s wearing a chequered dress that is at once demure and revealing....
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