Moving Home

Susan Hall depicts Manhattan’s skyline in the 1970s, when she was living in Greenwich Village. She describes her title as a metaphor: “In our peripatetic era the word ‘moving’ indicates the restless nature of our being. . . . What represents human beings more than the idea of a physical house that we dwell in or where we want to live . . . or nostalgia for where we used to live? And the irony that houses seem permanent and yet Americans are constantly on the move.”