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Featured Contributor: Kasia Lynch browcontribs: Kasia Lynch...
Featured Contributor: Kasia Lynchbrowcontribs:Kasia Lynch works from a studio at The Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne making fetishized and spiritualized sculptures, images and experiential spatial...
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Comedian Andy Matthews very kindly made a mixtape of his favourite comedian–cum-musicians for our latest Digital Edition, the Comedy Issue. Here’s what he had to say about it:You use a lot of the same...
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A Very Gary Giveaway
Image: Wikimedia Commons. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Licence.“The giveaway of the year.” – Gary ShteyngartYou might have heard that American literary celebrity Gary...
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'Eye, Human', by Koren Helbig
Photograph by Lars Norgaard.The voice coming down the telephone line is faintly robotic. It’s unexpected, even though I’m talking to one of the world’s first cyborgs, a colourblind European artist who...
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An Open Letter on Cuts to Arts Funding By The Australian Federal Government
Dear Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Minister for Arts George Brandis,We view with dismay the many proposed changes to health, education and welfare support announced in the 2014...
View ArticleA Mixtape by Geoffrey O'Connor
Sultry muso Geoffrey O’Connor has kindly made us a mixtape in advance of his appearance at our Mixtape Memoirs party during Emerging Writers’ Festival.Geoffrey will be reading a mini memoir based on...
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An illustration by Benjamin Urkowitz accompanying Tim Train’s...
An illustration by Benjamin Urkowitz accompanying Tim Train’s piece ‘Walking the Dog’ in our current issue, The Lifted Brow #22. It’s well on its way to selling out, so we recommend you get yours now–...
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'"Looking", Thinking', by Dion Kagan
Illustration by Grace Helmer.Looking is a recently aired HBO series about three handsome gays who live in San Francisco. They are: Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a 29-year-old corn-fed computer-game...
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Featured Contributor: Dion Kagan browcontribs: Dion Kagan is a...
Featured Contributor: Dion Kaganbrowcontribs:Dion Kagan is a lecturer in screen and cultural studies who works on film, theatre, sex and popular culture. He tweets at @DionKagan.Read Dion’s Non-fiction...
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'All Along the Watchtower: The World of Jehovah's Witnesses', by Pete Nicholson
A Kingdom Hall in Worthing, England. Image from Wikimedia Commons, released by the creator into the public domain.We’re proud to publish Pete Nicholson’s deep investigative essay on Jehovah’s...
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Out Now! The Lifted Brow: Digital, Volume Eight, Issue Two – The Emerging...
Cover art by Jr.Blue/LashnaTuschewski. This edition of The Lifted Brow: Digital features some of the best young writers from Australia – or more surely, from this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival in...
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Excerpt: 'Knocking the Scabs Off', by WP Newnham
Photograph by Michael Theis. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Licence. Replete from the feast of “snarler” rolls and steak sangers the mob take post-prandial drinks of rum...
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A draft of ‘River’, an illustration by Alexis...
A draft of ‘River’, an illustration by Alexis Beauclair appearing in The Lifted Brow #22. Get your copy now for just $9.
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A Mixtape by Justin Heazlewood
Friend of the Brow and notorious musician Justin Heazlewood – aka The Bedroom Philosopher – has a new book out. It’s called Funemployed, and it’s about life as an artist in Australia. (We’ll be...
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"Ways of Being", by Oliver Mestitz
BEING AN ARTISTIn Paris Stories,i Mavis Gallant remembers her father as someone whose persona was “so matter-of-fact, so taken for granted, so fully accepted by other people” that she couldn’t imagine...
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From the Archive: 'Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?' by Aden Rolfe
Aden Rolfe’s essay ‘Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk’ has been developed into a radio play for Radio National’s Radiotonic. It’ll air this Sunday 1st at 3pm and Wednesday 4th at 9pm, but it’s already...
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Featured Contributor: Pete Nicholson browcontribs: Pete...
Featured Contributor: Pete Nicholsonbrowcontribs:Pete Nicholson is a Melbourne writer. Read his piece ‘In the Belly of Jehovah’ in TLB22, or read its companion piece, 'All Along the Watchtower', at...
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'Belle of the Black Atlantic: Two Views of Black Identity In Historical Drama...
Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, by Johann Zoffany. Originally hosted at the Wikimedia Commons.The romantic drama Belle, directed by Amma Asante, is the latest in a recent...
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'The Right Kind of Blood', by Rosanna Stevens
Illustration by Lea Heinrich.Any man who has suffered kidney stones (as I have) MUST have some empathy for women who both have to give birth and suffer discomfort during their monthly cycle. I...
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Excerpt: 'Tails of the City: Urban Animals Beating the System', by Rhianna Boyle
A Julodimorpha bakewelli specimen. Altered from a photograph by Hectonichus. Reproduced from the Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence. Human...
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