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Would You Like To Review Books for Us? We Would Like You To Review Books For Us!
What things are better than books? We think: not many, if any. If you concur with this sentiment, perhaps you would like to review some books for us?The Lifted Brow Review of Books is—as the name might...
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‘A Person of Great Feeling and Conscience’, by Brandon Hobson
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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Revealed: TLB30′s Front Cover!
Did you see our earlier news post about our forthcoming TLB30 launch? Did you clock that little snippet of art by the immensely talented Freda Chiu and think, “I wonder where this delightful snippet of...
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‘Love, Money, Anger’, by Gillian Terzis
Photo by Ty Konzak. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.It’s never a good time to be a writer, but the next few years may well be the worst. The carnage was...
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Get Your Entries in to The Lifted Brow’s Experimental Non-Fiction Prize –...
Hi hi hello hi hi! Have you heard all about the thing we like to call The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLAB Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction yet? (If not: where even have you been hiding? Don’t bother...
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‘Wisdom From a Life of Boxing and Other Violences, by George Hannibal...
This is part one of three of a serial fiction piece by Jack Vening, with accompanying illustrations by Mike Baylis.1. AdviceYour first great mistake is not realising that you’re always fighting for...
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‘Ursula, Chapter X: The Day Trip’, A Serial Comic by Michael Hawkins
This is the penultimate chapter of ‘Ursula’, a comic by Michael Hawkins we’re currently serialising. Catch up on chapters one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.Things feel good...
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‘Maps of the Imagination: A review of David Brooks’s “Napoleon’s Roads”’, by...
“There are no endings, only sites, only moments of pause or clarity,” writes David Brooks at the end of his short story ‘“Kabul”’. It comes after a dozen pages of fragments about the titular city,...
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TLB30: This Is Happening
Images by Alan Weedon.What’s black and white and read all over, and also now on its way to our subscribers? That’s right, it’s the newest edition of The Lifted Brow! Our thirtieth issue is a special...
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‘Dayenu’, by Alanna Schubach with photographs by Eryk Salvaggio
This is yet another piece from our archive of digital good things.You imagine time flowing backward, back upstream: the apartment door swings open and the messenger from the lawyer’s office comes into...
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‘Wisdom From a Life of Boxing and Other Violences, by George Hannibal...
This is part two of three of a serial fiction piece by Jack Vening, with accompanying illustrations by Mike Baylis.2. MotivationIt’s important to remember your origins. I got into boxing how most...
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‘I Am Eating Meat: a Response to Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian”’, by James Butler
After almost ten years of vegetarianism I’ve started eating meat again. I’m doing it slowly: two small lamb chops, a bite of pork floating in ramen, a few slices of cured salami or ham. Although my...
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‘Shipwreck’, by Elspeth Muir
Photo by Horizon2035. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.The Lifted Brow have an enviable archive of pieces from incredible writers, some of whom have gone on...
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TLB30: In Stores Today Today Today – Also, Welcome New TLB Eds Annabel...
Photos by Alan WeedonAs we’re sure you already know, the latest issue of our quarterly attack journal, The Lifted Brow, has come back from the printers and is looking mighty good. Our print...
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‘Zones of Exclusion in “Cleverman”’, by Ellen van Neerven
‘The Zone’ in the new Australian sci-fi television series Cleverman is a train station. A fragile community of humans—Indigenous, ethnic, migrant, and “subhuman”, i.e. the Hairies—live here....
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We’re Looking for an Online Commentary Editor – Could It Be You?
Photo modified from an original by Tony Webster. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.If you’re an observant Brow-watcher—and who amongst us isn’t, really?—you...
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‘Wisdom From a Life of Boxing and Other Violences, by George Hannibal...
This is final part of a three-part serial fiction piece by Jack Vening, with accompanying illustrations by Mike Baylis. Catch up with part one and part two.3. Limits, Knowledge, BraveryAchieving...
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‘Drifting as Dissent: a Review of Don DeLillo’s “Zero K”’, by Justin Wolfers
I think of money as something to count. It’s something I put in my wallet and take out of my wallet. Money is numbers. You say that you need to leave clear instructions. Clear instructions sound...
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‘Twelve Songs About Water’: A Mixtape by Two Steps on the Water
Photo by Louis RocheA huge thanks to the wonderful June Jones from Two Steps on the Water who made us this mixtape. Two Steps on the Water headline our launch party this Saturday 11 June, along with...
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‘Writing In a Fugue State: a Review of Elspeth Muir’s “Wasted: a Story of...
You’ll never regain the memory of what occurred in an alcoholic blackout, because you never committed the events to short-term memory in the first place. It’s as though, like a monkey, you are swinging...
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