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Excerpt: ‘Cremating Gondwana’, by Fregmonto Stokes
Illustration by Anita Ekman.How do you respond to the death of a 100-million-year-old forest? That’s the question we are left with in the wake of the summer bushfires in Tasmania, which have eradicated...
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TLB x EWF: Come to Our Riso Printshop Show!
It’s winter here in Melbourne, and if you know anything about winter and Melbourne and Australian literary culture, you’ll know that winter in Melbourne means the Emerging Writers’ Festival. One of the...
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First Digital Instalment of TLB30 is Now Available on the Web and Via Our App
Oh boy – it’s only been a few days since we launched our latest print issue into the world via an excellent party (thanks, Pillow Pro, Jessica Says and Two Steps on the Water!) and now we’re already...
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‘The Complexity of Being Earnest: a Review of Kate Tempest’s “The Bricks that...
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers videos on YouTube. “People all over the world are starvin’ just for affection,” Jonathan sings plaintively in a live recording...
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TLB x EWF: Come to Our Late Night Lit: Cult Friction Event!
Will you be in the general vicinity of Melbourne, Australia tonight? Are you bereft of plans for the evening? Does attending an excellent event put on by three ace literary magazines with the help of...
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An Interview with Merv Heers
To celebrate the launch of The Lifted Brow’sexhibition of Riso prints in collaboration with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, TLB Events Coordinator Kate McKenzie chatted to artist Merv Heers, whose work...
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Excerpt: ‘Fatal Mountain, Sacred Mountain’, by Lauren Carroll Harris
Illustration by Duwey Guyen.Cinema is full of representations of the landscape that inspire terror. The land is a scary place—it is to be feared or conquered. Mount Everest is that most perilous and...
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‘The Loneliest Heart’, by Rebecca Harkins-Cross
Still from Man of Flowers.In Paul Cox’s Vincent (1987), he makes a cameo in the final moments as a mourner laying sunflowers on Van Gogh’s coffin. The film itself is his extended eulogy, an...
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TLB x EWF: Come to Our Riso Print Shop Show Opening
Cast your mind back – back to a time when we told you all about the Riso print shop show that we’re putting on with our pals at the Emerging Writers’ Festival. (We told you all about it last week.) In...
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The second digital instalment of TLB30 is now available on the web and via...
It is a universally acknowledged truth that good things come in threes. According to the almighty oracle that is Wikipedia, “things that come in threes are funnier, more satisfying, or more effective...
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‘How to Disappear in America Without a Trace’, by Jennifer Down
This is an edited version of the reading given by Jennifer Down at the Late Night Lit: Cult Friction event at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival.In December 2013 I was in Los Angeles. It was cold,...
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‘The Search for a Different, Deeper Truth: a Review of Katherine Brabon’s...
In its thirty-sixth year the Vogel Award seems to have settled into its position, along with most other long-standing literary prizes and awards, as being more or less a nice thing. This is the prize,...
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‘Saliva Made Deliberately Airborne Will Not Be Ignored’, by Sam Cooney, and...
‘Saliva Made Deliberately Airborne Will Not Be Ignored’, by Samuel CooneyThe day last month that much of the Australian news media decided to coordinate their grubby hot spotlights onto a single human...
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‘Making an Example of Her’, by Ben Eltham, and ‘#Baird Out Now’, by Nan...
‘Making an Example of Her’, by Ben ElthamIn the English summer of 1381, a mob of peasants marched from rural Kent towards London. Their demands were many and various, but most of all they wanted lower...
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Excerpt: ‘Infinite Scroll’, by Joshua Barnes
Illustration by Michael Hawkins.Operative since 1996, the Internet Archive (web.archive.org) makes regular scans of all publicly available pages and collects them in an online database that anyone can...
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‘Children and other Artifacts’, by Jacqueline Vogtman, with artwork by the...
This is yet another piece from our archive of digital good things.Before Ursula and Hunter married, they agreed they would not bring children into the world. Too many wars, he’d said. Too much poverty,...
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‘I’m Searching for a Language: a Review of Svetlana Alexievich’s “Secondhand...
I. Through the SnowVarlam Shalamov survived seventeen years in the Soviet Gulag and afterwards grappled with the task of writing about it. In the opening to his collection Kolyma Tales, he describes a...
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‘Aboriginal Women Warriors, Country and Western, and Brain-Washing’, by Paola...
This is an edited version of the reading given by Paola Balla at the Late Night Lit: Cult Friction event at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival.I tell stories, some of them are true stories – this...
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Do You Like T-Shirts, Tote Bags, and Art Prints? If So: Good News! We’re Now...
If you’re reading this—either by having entered “www dot theliftedbrow dot com” into your browser’s address bar, or by having followed us on the microblogging platform and social networking website...
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The Third and Final Digital Instalment of TLB30 Is Now Available on the Web...
As Bob Dorough reminds us, three is a magic number. De La Soul say so, too. What we’re saying is: three is the number of digital instalments of each issue of the Brow, and the third and therefore final...
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