Articles by Susan Salter Reynolds

One More Year Stories Sana Krasikov Spiegel & Grau: 208 pp., $21.95 “TO MAKE it here, you have to want to be here,” Ilona explains to Thomaz in “Companion,” the first story in Sana Krasikov’s debut collection, “One More Year.” Read more

The End of Sleep A Novel Rowan Somerville W.W. Norton: 246 pp., $23.95 FIN IS a piece of work: an Irish journalist set loose in Cairo on the trail of Skinhead Said, a piratical type with a lair full of priceless antiques and splendid treasures. Read more

Can’t Remember What I Forgot The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research Sue Halpern Harmony Books: 272 pp., $24 SPEAKING OF forgetting, have you noticed that good writing is memorable? Read more

Names on the Land A Historical Account of Place Naming in the United States George R. Stewart New York Review Books: 544 pp., $19.95 paper “NAMES ON the Land” was first published in 1945 and has remained a classic in the field of onomastics – the study of proper names and their meanings. Read more

The Size of the World A Novel Joan Silber W.W. Norton: 324 pp., $23.95 ONE OF the ways an author can really stretch and test the possibilities of fiction is by covering a great deal of ground – the wide world. Read more

The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane Penguin Books: 340 pp., $15 paper “I DID not believe, or did not want to believe, the obituaries for the wild. Read more

Why I Came West A Memoir Rick Bass Houghton Mifflin: 238 pp., $24 RICK BASS is one of this country’s greatest and most reluctant activists. Read more

Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan Little, Brown: 368 pp., $23.99 THESE stories about children in various African countries offer an almost dizzying fall into another way of life and other ways of surviving. Read more

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