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Anne Barnetson on Fiona Wright’s ‘Small Acts of Disappearance’
When we spotted visual artist Anne Barnetson on Twitter in August last year saying thank you to Fiona Wright for her book, we immediately asked Anne if she’d like to draw something that responded to...
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‘Halloween at the Fun Park’, by Elmo Keep
We here at The Lifted Brow have an enviable archive of great stuff that disappeared into the ether when we changed how our website works; this is one such piece. Over the coming weeks and months, on a...
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‘The Vicious Intent: a Review of Jesse Ball’s “How to Set a Fire and Why”’,...
I have a friend who releases almost a book a year, sometimes two. Whenever we talk about writing this becomes an issue. I’m a slow worker. I put things off, or say I want to think things over, and I...
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Experimental Non-Fiction Prize Judge: Maria Tumarkin
In the lead-up to the May 29 submission date for The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLAB Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, we will be profiling each of our amazing judges to give you a little...
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‘Articulating Unspeakable Trauma: a Review of Josephine Rowe’s “A Loving,...
It’s New Year’s Eve 2014 and I’m watching the ABC’s broadcast of the Sydney fireworks with my parents. Julia Zemiro is hosting with Eddie Perfect. It’s so, so awful. No one has offered to spend it with...
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‘The Relingos of Beijing: An Interview with Valeria Luiselli’, by Emily Laidlaw
A relingo—an emptiness, an absence—is a sort of depository for possibilities, a place that can be seized by the imagination and inhabited by our phantom follies. Cities need those vacant lots, those...
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‘What’s Your Daddy?’, by Regrette Etcetera
Photo by Jens Aarstein Holm. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.So this one time I turn up for a trick, nursing 2 broken ribs—willingly accrued &...
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Back By Popular Demand: Our Experimental Non-Fiction Workshop!
If you’ve been paying attention to all things Brow—and if you haven’t, why haven’t you?—you’ll know that we recently ran an experimental non-fiction workshop as part of the lead-up to The Lifted Brow...
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‘Love and Pronoun Avoidance: A Review of Maggie Nelson’s “The Argonauts”’, by...
American author and critic Maggie Nelson’s seventh book, The Argonauts, is a slippery, transgenre work of autobiographical writing about Nelson’s attempt, with her non-binary trans partner Harry Dodge,...
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Call Her Mum: Margot Nash’s ‘The Silences’, by Adrian Martin
Image courtesy of Corrie Ancone.From the day when he lost his faith in the world, he has felt linked to it like a son to his unnatural mother. — Louis-René des ForêtsIn his splendid lecture ‘Philosophy...
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Experimental Non-Fiction Prize Judge: Helen Macdonald
In the lead-up to the May 29 submission date for The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLAB Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction—exactly one month away, you guys!—we have been profiling each of our amazing...
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We Want Your Commentary Pieces for Our Website, We Really Do
Photo modified from an original by Tony Webster. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.If you are reading this post on our “internet site” or via “the...
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Excerpt: ‘I Want to Cut Off My Leg: The Ballad of Butcher Brown’, by Amy Gray
Photo by Ben Salter. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Phillip Bondy wanted to feel whole but his brain told him his body wasn’t. It was his leg. That accursed...
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‘Autumn Royal’s “She Woke & Rose” and the Global Reinvention of Confessional...
[I]f one says a piece of writing is confessional, then we are inclined to say that the speaker is, in fact, necessarily the author. Even if it isn’t really, it just has to be, because it says so –...
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‘The Deal’, by Z. Z. Boone
We here at The Lifted Brow have an enviable archive of great stuff that disappeared into the ether when we changed how our website works; this is one such piece. Over the coming weeks and months, on a...
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‘Elegy for Organ in Ten Parts’, by Kate McIntyre
Photo by Stijn Nieuwendijk. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.The new Managing Editor of The Missouri Review, Kate McIntyre, recently...
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Launch of TLB30: join us!
We’re getting issue 30 ready for your eyeballs — and we’re sure keen for a night on the town to celebrate when it’s done. We’re debuting this issue into polite society at Hugs&Kisses, with music...
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Excerpt: ‘Body Horror’, Alex Cuffe
Artwork by Tommi PG. Originally published in The Lifted Brow #29Adapted transcript from Alex Cuffe’s performance at TarraWarra Museum of Art, which they delivered as part of Liquid Architecture’s ‘Time...
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‘#NotAllDaves: Zoe Coombs Marr and the Changing Face of Australian Comedy’,...
Getting in to Zoe Coombs Marr’s 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, Trigger Warning, was the hardest I’ve ever had to work to get a ticket to anything. During peak hours MICF has dozens...
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‘Welcome To My Living Room, There Are No Rules: a Review of “Fireflies” Issue...
In my living room there is a poster on the wall that says “There are no rules”. Actually, it’s in a house I used to live in, but I like to think that a non-physical version of that poster is on the...
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