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SIGN UP FOR THE PARIS REVIEW NEWSLETTER AND KEEP UP WITH NEWS, PARTIES, READINGS, AND MORE. Time is not a river pushing people forward as they lunge at floating branches—inelegantly, so what?—but an oily, seeping substance. In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, we’re celebrating our latest issue with three free pieces by Fall 2019 contributors who have previously appeared in the Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. “Until recently, I thought ‘occasional poetry’ meant that you wrote only occasionally.” The human skill, the main human skill, is to establish irrational consensus where there is no basis for it. The Paris Review lost a dear friend when Susannah Hunnewell, the publisher of the magazine, pas*ed away on June 15. Susannah and I were once invited to a party. We met in the park at sunset and she decided, on a lark, that we should take a horse-drawn carriage. She kept asking the driver to make another turn, go farther uptown, east, then south and back, it was so beautiful, the buildings in the gold light towering around us. I’d lived in New York for twelve years but never ridden in a car… Sign up for the Paris Review newsletter and keep up with news, parties, readings, and more. Join the writers and staff of The Paris Review at our next event. Visit our store to buy archival issues of the magazine, prints, T-shirts, and accessories.