The Catalogue of Lost Things

The Paris Review's online editor Tarpley Hitt has published a curated selection of book passages discovered among the magazine's summer submissions. Per The Paris Review, the collection spans fiction, nonfiction, translations, and reissues from debut authors and established names alike. Featured works include Joanna Kavenna's novel exploring philosophical concepts, A. Igoni Barrett's "Whyteface," and Emily Eakin's group biography of influential French theorists. The summer pile also includes unusual finds: an Italian chapbook of cat-themed poems from the nineteen-eighties and a critique of psychiatry written as letters addressed to "Dear Neoliberalism." According to The Paris Review, the eclectic mix captures how literary discovery happens at an editor's desk — part cabinet of curiosities, part serendipity.

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