Capital Week: ‘Pressing Class’, by Caitlin Maher-Gale
Photo by Pranav. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.To celebrate the release of TLB32: the Capital Issue, we at TLB’s website are running a ‘Capital'–themed...
View ArticleCapital Week: ‘Soulja Boy Uses an App to Get Fake Likes on Instagram (and...
Photo by Wreck and Salvage. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic LicenseTo celebrate the release of TLB32: the Capital Issue, we at TLB’s website are running a...
View ArticleCapital Week: ‘#ThisIsLiving’, by Paul Dalla Rosa
Photo by Kristen Wall. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.To celebrate the release of TLB32: the Capital Issue, we at TLB’s website are...
View ArticleCapital Week: ‘My Bad: How a Book and an Essay About Bad Writing Made Good on...
To celebrate the release of TLB32: the Capital Issue, we at TLB’s website are running a ‘Capital'–themed week, featuring original content especially commissioned for the website. Today: Sam...
View ArticleTLB32: The Ledger
Photo by 401 (K) 2012. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.As part of TLB32, the Capital Issue, we have attempted to enumerate the labour...
View ArticleCapital Week: ‘Instituting Change: the MCA Zine Fair and DIY Zine Culture’,...
Image by Mcld. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.To celebrate the release of TLB32: the Capital Issue, we at TLB’s website are running a ‘Capital'–themed week,...
View ArticleExcerpt: ‘A Content Life’, by Sam West
Image by Kenneth Snyder. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.I once sat in a symphony hall while a group of famed avant-garde musicians recreated Discreet Music...
View ArticleTwo Poems by Natalie Eilbert
Photo by Carbonair Environmental Services Inc. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.EzekielleWell I’m in my thirtieth year and I have...
View Article‘One Hundred Per Cent Sincere, One Hundred Per Cent Ironic: an Interview with...
How much does place shape an interview? Geoff Dyer is sitting in his luxury hotel room in Adelaide; I am in a drab office building in Melbourne. I am at what people refer to as their ‘day’ job,...
View Article‘Mother Knows Best: a Review of Nadja Spiegelman’s “I’m Supposed to Protect...
Nadja Spiegelman’s I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This shimmers with elegance, mystery, and danger. It is a memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, as well as a study of...
View Article‘Honey I’m Home to Make America Great Again!’, by Stephanie Van Schilt
“Nostalgia is to memory as kitsch is to art.”— Charles Maier“Wish we could turn back time to the good ol’ days When our momma sang us to sleep but now we’re stressed out.”— twenty one pilots“President...
View ArticleThe Lifted Brow Review of Books – All the Books We Reviewed in 2016
Photo by veronica_k. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License. Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (Harper Collins), reviewed by Emma Marie JonesLike...
View ArticleAnnouncing New Books from The Lifted Brow in 2017
After the success of our first foray into book publishing this year, with Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sinkhaving been reviewed ridiculously favourably by everyone and ultimately selling so well...
View ArticleAn Approximately Accurate Gender Breakdown of TLB Contributors in 2016
A few years ago, we started recording the breakdown of our contributors’ genders for each thing we published. We’re interested in this, so we keep an eye on it. People are interested in this, so now we...
View ArticleThe Best of 2016 From The Lifted Brow: Online
Photo by Becky Lai. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.It’s been an absolutely massive year for us here at The Lifted Brow: we released...
View ArticleLimited Offer! Pay What You Think It’s Worth for TLB32: the Capital Issue
Photo by Alan Weedon.Here is a special and perhaps very silly offer!For a limited time only, you can pay what you want for our current issue – or rather, you can pay what you think it’s worth. It’s up...
View ArticleAn Interview With Sam Wallman, TLB32 Cover Artist
To celebrate this morning’s announcement of our pay-what you think it’s worth experiment for TLB32—and just as a general reminder that this excellent edition is a thing out there in the world that you...
View ArticleExcerpt: ‘Stranger in the Dark’, by Krissy Kneen
In case you missed it: last year we announced Stranger in the Dark, a serial erotic fiction from renowned Australian author and longtime Brow friend Krissy Kneen. The serialised story will land in its...
View ArticleCall for Pitches: Online Series on ‘Women in Sport’
Photo by Robert Antoniuk. Image reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.We are seeking for pitches for an online commentary series on the subject of...
View ArticleExcerpt: ‘There’s No Dirt in My Food’, by Fiona Wright
Image by givesmehell. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.The first time I was hospitalised for my eating disorder, I met a woman who had signed up for the Michelle...
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