The Catalogue of Lost Things
Some favorite passages from the many new releases that wound up on our desks this July and August.
In our July and August issues, we featured a story by Joanna Kavenna called "The Beautiful Salmon." This story follows a philosophy student attending a dinner party at the house of a brilliant and terrifying professor who specializes in "Box Philosophy," or "Thinking outside the Box about Thinking outside the Box." In Kavenna's new novel, Seven: or, How to Play a Game Without Rules, the professor tasks the student with finding a poet-dentist named Apostolakis who has been working on a book titled the Fanouropiton, or the Catalogue of Lost Things.
This book is divided into short entries, including categories such as "Things Lost by War," "Things Lost by Human Folly," "Things Lost Because No One Really Cared About Them," and "Things Lost Because Too Many People Cared About Them," which includes entries on betrayals and thefts.
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