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Excerpt: ‘Honey I’m Home to Make America Great Again’, by Stephanie Van Schilt
Photo by jeffmason. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.I was reading Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake when Netflix’s revival sitcom Fuller House was released....
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‘Strength of Character: a review of Sara Majka’s “Cities I’ve Never Lived...
When I moved to New York from Australia last August, plenty of people told me how bad the winter can get—that my hair would freeze if I went out with it wet, that if I wore the wrong boots I’d slip on...
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‘Pony Boy’, by Kevin Lavey
Photo by David. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.This is yet another piece from our archive of digital good things.You’re rigged, the Converses, the Levis,...
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Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink – Pre-Order it Now!
We here at The Lifted Brow have been so, so excited about this book for so, so long, and now it’s almost here – you can now pre-order Briohny Doyle’s debut novel (and our first book as publishers) The...
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‘Bitter Fruit’, by Anonymous
Photo by Judy Dean. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.The first bitter truth you must learn is that it is never about your art. Or: the first bitter truth you...
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‘Picking or Throwing’, by Elizabeth Caplice
This morning, Elizabeth Caplice—writer, archivist, artist, knitter, and Iceland enthusiast, amongst so many other things—died from stage IV bowel cancer. She was thirty-two. Elizabeth had a long and...
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‘Poetry Worth Pausing For: a Review of Ellen van Neerven’s “Comfort Food”’,...
I am not interested in other words for honey. I am interested in honey.— Sina Queyras, MxTThis epigraph to Ellen van Neerven’s debut poetry collection, like most of the poetry here, is deceptively...
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Excerpt: ‘Law School: Advice on Sex and Relationships’, with Benjamin Law and...
Photo by [hailey]herrarasaurus. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.Dear Law School,A few weeks ago I was running errands in the city and I spotted my dad having...
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The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction –...
When we opened entries for this year’s The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, we had a feeling that we were onto a good thing. But we had no idea just how much...
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‘Subburnabla’, by Paul Kavanagh with artwork by Nicholas Modrzewski
This is yet another piece from our archive of digital good things.Larry, Tim, Peter, Saul, William, Carl, Lee, Jake, Richard, Sam, Eliot, Macy, Lucy, Jane, Mary, Jean, Elizabeth, May, Wendy, Lilly,...
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‘Clefairy Sightings: on Pokémon Go and Snapchat’s haunted images’, by Connor...
Photo by Kristian Nordestgaard. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.I.In one of the 1917 Cottingley Fairy photographs, sixteen-year-old Elsie Wright sits...
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‘Tinned Beetroot: A Review of “If We All Spat At Once They’d Drown: Drawings...
Those with ‘something to fall back on’, they invariably fall back on it. They intended to all along. That is why they provided themselves with it. But those with no alternative see the world...
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Excerpt: ‘The Art of Breaking’, by Rebecca Jessen
Bec Jessen @randomshypoet – Dec 30 On my way to the airport. Letter from my psychologist tucked into notebook. #copingBec Jessen @randomshypoet – Dec 30 Landed in Sydney. Catching the train west....
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‘“Many Things I, I Musn’t Say”: Approaching the Mystery and Uncertainty of...
There were strange things happening, and without any decent coherency events could have taken place in any order. I was feeling nauseated and unsettled and couldn’t sleep without waking five or six...
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The Island Will Sink Arrives at TLB’s Offices – Pre-Order Your Copy Now!
We here at the Brow have been very excited for a very long time about our first foray into the world of book publishing: Briohny Doyle’s debut novel The Island Will Sink. (Find out all about it here...
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‘Having Feelings on the Internet is a Power Move: A Review of Melissa...
Once I was in love with someone I had never met.We would Skype for four, five, six hours at a time, him in Hong Kong and me in Melbourne, and he would say “you’re my dream girl”, and I would say “when...
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‘In Conversation With Mahogany L. Browne’ by Sista Zai Zanda
Photo by Shell Daruwala. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.We at The Lifted Brow are presenting this conversation in support of...
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‘THE ISLAND WILL SINK’: in bookstores today!
“The Island Will Sink is not ‘just’ a novel. It is the most assured and innovative debut I have read in a long time, one that has me excited about the political possibilities of postmodern fiction.”—...
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Excerpt: ‘How to Build a Universe’, by Emily Meller
Illustration by Angelica Roache-Wilson.Whenever you build anything, you start with the parts.I am starting with Michael’s room. We are sitting in front of a huge screen, flying through space. We pass...
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‘Hamnlet Pursues the Black Unicorn’, by Jonathan Callahan
This is yet another piece from our archive of digital good things.It is universally admitted that the unicorn is a supernatural being of good omen; such is declared in all the odes, annals, biographies...
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