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Two Poems by Izzy Roberts-Orr
Photo by Jared Zimmerman. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.Sometimes the Ocean Falls on You, Even When the Coastlines Are Far...
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‘How to Live in Trump’s World’, by Omar Sakr
Photo by Andrew Seaman. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.I was talking with Filipino poet Larry Ypil recently, who was agonising over a recent move...
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‘“Thousands and Thousands of Butterflies with Sonorous Wings”: a Review of...
In Sigmund Freud’s Totem and Taboo, he writes of the potential for names to invoke a taboo, particularly for ‘compulsion neurotics’. One patient suffering from this ‘taboo disease’, he writes:adopted...
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The Island Will Sink – Buy a Copy, Get a Free TLB Back Issue of Your Choice
If you’ve ever popped onto this, the Brow’s website—or if you follow us on Tumblr, or if you pay attention to our social media—you’ll probably know all about our first foray into book publishing,...
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From ‘Notes for an Opening’, by Wendy Xu
Photo by Stephen Wu. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 GenericLicense.+They ask me how deeply do you abide by your imperfect alliances Well, the trouble...
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A Mixtape by Briohny Doyle
Thank you to Briohny Doyle for putting together this mixtape for The Lifted Brow. Briohny’s debut novel, The Island Will Sink, is the first book published by The Lifted Brow. You can purchase the book...
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Excerpt: ‘Trash-Man ♥︎s Maree’, by WP Newnham
Photo by belpo. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.This excerpt comes from ‘Trash-Man ♥︎s Maree’ by W<J>P Newnham, which won the second The...
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‘The Anxiety of Stuff: a Review of Ruth Quibell’s “The Promise of Things”’,...
Before the great sanitisation of Sydney’s centre for sale to developers, I was in a dealer’s apartment in King’s Cross, smoking ice. He had a set of flimsy white IKEA drawers. The same ones I had at...
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‘Imagining the Deaths of Rupert Murdoch and Bill Leak: Honi Soit’s Reassuring...
What we want from comedy usually depends on who we want to see suffer – and student journalists, unsurprisingly, wish suffering upon the creators and beneficiaries of Australia’s conservative media....
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Cover and Contents Revealed for TLB #32: The Capital Issue
You might recall that, a few months ago, we posted one very sparkly Marx .gif on this website and asked you for your clever words about ‘Capital’. Well – we took the best of those words you sent...
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‘Colouring Inside Lines’, by Ruth McHugh-Dillon
Photo by Alex E. Proimos. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 GenericLicense.“So you didn’t bring any antimalarials?”His face went pale. “What do you...
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‘The Mixtape’, by Stuart Barnes
Photo by Stuart Childs. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.First, only. TDK, D90. I Feel LiKe A DicK ! Label golden brown as heroin/es....
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‘A Lengthy History of Time: a review of Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem”’, by Andrew...
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are about to embark on an odyssey.— Jeffrey Dahmer’s attorney Gerard Boyle in his opening statement to the court.Who’s Alan Moore again? Well, he writes comics. He...
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‘All Eyes on She: the complexities of the feminine universe in Almodóvar's...
Photo courtesy of Transmission Films.A sea of delicate red veils the screen, breathing and swaying with a heady sensuality, lingering just long enough to summon some Freudian speculation. Finally the...
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Bye bye Marc; hello Bailey and Ben!
Please join us in saying a huge+fond farewell to Marc Pearson, who has been our Art Editor for the past couple of years.Marc says: “after 2 years and 8 issues of helping co-art edit and art edit The...
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‘Lynette Wallworth’s ‘Collisions’, and how Terra Nullius lives today’, by...
Photo by Piers Mussared, courtesy of ACMI.“The spirit of my gods rising up to speak with me. And the water holes boiled.” –Nyarri Nyarri Morgan.In the 1950s in the Pilbara desert, ash rained down along...
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TLB #32: The Capital Issue – On Sale Today!
Photos by Alan Weedon.Issue number thirty-two of The Lifted Brow—the Capital Issue—goes on sale today.TLB32 features writing and visual art that reflects on commerce, economics, and cultural capital: a...
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‘The Science Fiction of Iraq: a Review of “Iraq +100: Stories from a Century...
If much of the modern geopolitical landscape is defined in its earliest inflections by Iraq—Bush’s decision to invade, Obama’s decision to oppose, and all the ramifications that followed (Syria,...
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Announcing Stranger in the Dark – an Intimate Affair Between Krissy Kneen and...
I don’t fuck like your lover fucks—tired from a day of work, pausing to ask if you turned the heater off in the loungeroom, stopping to switch their phone to silent or to kick the cat off the bed. You...
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TLB32: The Capital Issue – Editorial by Annabel Brady-Brown and Zoe Dzunko
We write this editorial on the morning after Donald Trump took the stage as president-elect, promising to “bind the wounds of division.” That division, borne from disparity and dissenting opinion, is...
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