“On January 30, approximately 180 people overfilled an auditorium in the New York Public Library to witness an event titled (after Musil, in part) ‘Cabinet on Trial: A Magazine of No Qualities?’ … The NYPL event echoed a 1921 Dada trial of Maurice Barrès, staged by André Breton to address Barrès’s collusion with nationalist groups like Action Française.” Sasha Frere-Jones reports.