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‘Giving Up the Ghosts: a Review of George Saunders’s “Lincoln in the Bardo”’,...
It kills me to say it, it really does, but maybe George Saunders should stick to short stories. Or maybe he shouldn’t. Maybe it’s an aberration that his long awaited debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo is...
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‘Brown Cardigan McGuires You: Mainstream Memelords, the Libertarian Laugh,...
Each man kills the thing he lovesThe fisherman caught in his own netIt’s frightening that you deserveThe audience that you get— TISM, ‘Play Mistral For Me’Hell is empty, all the devils are here, and...
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‘Ironic Sexism: The Male Gaze of Hipster Spaces’, by Emma Pitman
I was sitting in a trendy Surry Hills eatery, just trying to eat some fried chicken and deconstruct my existential loneliness with a friend, when I was distracted by this image:Why was this image here?...
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‘No High-Rise on Our Street’, by Briohny Doyle
Image by Kai C. Schwarzer. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.High-rises are deeply dystopian structures. There are high-rises going up in my suburb,...
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Excerpt: ‘Stranger in the Dark’, by Krissy Kneen
Stranger in the Darkis a serial erotic fiction from renowned Australian author and longtime Brow friend Krissy Kneen. The story will land in its subscribers’ inboxes over the course of this year in the...
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‘A Fear of Fear Itself: A Review of Dirk Kurbjuweit’s “Fear”’, by Nathan Smith
The first time I shot a gun I was on university exchange in California. At the time, it seemed like the thing to do.I was living in Southern California, not far from the old Manson Family ranch, in an...
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Cover and Contents Revealed for TLB33: Our 10th Birthday Issue
In case you didn’t know: we turned ten years old this year. Ten whole years of the Brow; ten whole years of work by our volunteer staffers to bring you, our valued readers, only the very best writing...
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Three Poems by Danez Smith
Image by Nikos Patsiouris. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYSwho bow & become the alpha of something, dead guttural...
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A Special Impromptu Dealio!
For a limited time only (seriously: this deal only lasts from now until whenever we elect to switch it off, which could be any time, could be hours, could be days, could be weeks, very probably won’t...
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‘Down Where It’s Wetter: Mermaids, Menstruation, and Marine Ecology’, by...
Image by Klaus Stiefel. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.Maybe he’s right. Maybe there is something the matter with me. I just don’t see how a world...
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‘Negative Space: a Review of Emily Ruskovich’s “Idaho”’, by Jennifer Down
I think mullein is the bright yellow flower blooming across the cover of Idaho. It’s mentioned several times: it grows on Mount Loeil, the site of the tragedy at the centre of Emily Ruskin’s elegiac...
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‘Large Large White Flowers’, by Eileen Myles
Image by Michael Tapp. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.I’m using this it’s large it could leave it could change inside of changing is hanging...
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Call for Submissions: Translated Works
Are you a translator? Have you unearthed some amazing piece of writing that the English-speaking world is missing out on? If so, we’d love to hear from you – because we’re currently looking for...
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‘The Critic in the Episode “Rebounds”’, by Jana Perković
Image modified from an original by Lisa Zins. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.1. in which no theatre gets reviewedThe interesting thing about rebounds is that one...
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‘Sweatshop’s Literary Dominance Takes Hold: a Review of Peter Polites’s “Down...
I read Down the Hume in one sitting. I haven’t read a book like that in a long time. Part of me thinks I simply found the time to devote a whole day to reading, but another part can’t shake off the...
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Season One of The Lifted Brow’s ‘Brow Talks’ Lecture Series Continues
After a successful launch last year of this public talks series, we welcome back BROW TALKS for 2017, presented in partnership with non/fictionLab at RMIT. Informal in tone and omnivorous in range,...
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TLB33 – Our 10th Birthday Issue! – Is Available Today
A little over ten years ago, The Lifted Brow started its life as a little A5-sized black-and-white magazine that you could buy for a mere six of your hard-earned dollarydoos. A lot has happened since...
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Two Poems by Lonely Christopher
Image by Nikos Patsiouris. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.Ex-Boyfriend on the BeachI pissed on a church the blameless ships and the bough twisted...
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A Limited Time Birthday Gift From Us to You: Print Subscription = Free Bag o’...
To celebrate the fact that our 10th Birthday Issue is now in all good bookstores and newsagents Australia-wide, for a short time only anyone who buys a two-year or three-year subscription receives an...
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Excerpt: ‘Something to be tiptoed around until it goes away’, by Emma Marie...
Image by Oriol Borrega Cepa. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.MY MOTHER ONCE TOLD ME My mother once told me—before my sister died or after? I can’t remember—that...
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