THE LIFTED BROW #45

(March 2020)

Issue 45 of The Lifted Brow: essays, fiction, translations, commentary, criticism, poetry, and as always so many pages of comics and illustrations.

Officially in stores on March 2nd, but sent to all subscribers and pre-orderers before then.

With cover art by Michael Fikaris, Issue 45 of The Lifted Brow includes:

An adaptation of Nic Holas' Brow Talk about how far we have come in depathologising but not depoliticising our sex lives, guest edited by TLB founder Ronnie Scott;
Georgia Mill elucidates the invisible but entrenched barriers to queer parenthood in Australia;
An exploratory essay from Tess Pearson that pieces together language and the body after pregnancy;
Kate Scardifield with an experimental essay on limbs, detachment, and the instinct to collect and categorise;
Aurora Scott with a lyric essay on islands, rocks, isolation and attention;
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn writing on breaking the silence in the mining industry and why it is so hard to be heard;
an excerpt from Eloise Grills' upcoming Brow Books publication big beautiful female theory;

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, translated by Erin Goodman, with a story that peers through the screen and finds the other side wanting; plus an interview between author and translator on work, intimacy, and the soundtrack to it all;

Punchy dystopic fiction from Kang Young-Sook, translated by Janet Hong, on contagion and the bonds that hold us;
A prose poem from Rosmarie Waldrop that scrutinises semantics;
poetry from Georgia Kartas, Panda Wong, and Jason Phu;
columns: Antonia Pont’s tour-de-force ‘Thinking Feeling’ column about the ethics and micro-dynamics of leadership; Jana Perković’s column ‘The Critic’ reflects on Exit Strategies, and the complex work of leaving; and Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny Phang’s famous ‘Law School’ sex+relationships advice column;
a new ‘By Numbers’ feature by Panda Wong that uses numerical data to investigate the world of trees;
and new comics and visual art by April Phillips, Anya Davidson, Wakana Yamazaki, Mary Leunig, Can Yalcinkaya, Ashley Ronning, Angelica Roache-Wilson, Humyara Mahbub, Shae San Sim, Emma Davidson, Zane Zlemeša, Ben Constantine, Emilie Walsh, Christine Obst, Tom Groenestyn, and Oscar Nimmo.