Lisa Birk

We write about the other with varying degrees of rigor and success. Homer’s default was narrow (white, male, hetero, warrior), but even...

The Da Vinci Code is fast paced, a “page-turner.” Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is not. We don’t need Writer’s Digest to define...

Some weeks before my artist friend Vicki Paret’s baby arrived, she stretched nine canvases of equal size. She gridded nine rectangles on...