In the French theorists’ “Anti-Oedipus,” their influential polemic against organized psychoanalysis, they drew on the composer Jacques Besse’s account of a schizophrenic episode.
Leonard Abrams started the paper, which chronicled the cultural life of downtown New York, in 1979. After trying for eight years to place its archives, he handed them off to the library last fall.
In “A History of Lying,” the novelist Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel argues that lies are inescapable. But being in the periphery of a real man who couldn’t stop lying casts light on the ways that’s not quite true.
