Is it possible to critic-proof a work of art? To angle it just out of the reach of our blundering hands? To render it opaque enough to resist interpretation, or maybe just to obscure our view with a ...
The dead hover so closely around Lorrie Moore’s mournful new book that it feels more like a séance than a novel. Even the long title — “I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home” — seems determined to ...