Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

New on nybooks.com: David Cole on the Supreme Court’s two choices on same-sex marriage,Nadja Tesich’s memoir of Paris in the 1960s, Jenny Uglow on Goya’s drawings of magic and madness, and a poem by Marianne Boruch. THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY UCONN

Unthinkable or Inevitable? David Cole At this point, the Court has only two choices: to vindicate the demands of equality and liberty, or to validate discrimination. There is no third way.   ADVERTISEMENT   ‘Nadja à Paris’ Nadja Tesich with Lucy McKeon When I attempt to describe my years in Paris, no one believes me, I can tell. It was too Hollywood-dream perfect. Here is Nadja coming out of the student restaurant, minding her own business, and who should appear next but Eric Rohmer…   Goya Takes Flight Jenny Uglow These are private drawings, seen by a few friends, in which Goya could be rude, macabre, bitter, unfettered by constraints of patrons or politeness. The captions are minimal: “Monk,” “Nothing is known of this,” “I can hear snoring.”   ADVERTISEMENT   Once Made of Feathers and an Ounce of Blood Marianne Boruch From then on Katrina fiercing up from the get-go any girly girl named that. Before too, whole phrases incisor-sharp: fuck you, you fucking fuck! all down the front… (cont.)   CONFERENCE The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School presents “Sanctions and Divestments: Economic Weapons of Political and Social Change” (April 30–May 1)   SEMINAR At Harvard University, Lawrence Kramer, Lawrence Buell and Elisa New discuss “Whitman’s Civil War Revisited: Drum-Taps at 150” (April 30)