TODAY: In 1885, Hungarian author and translator Dezső Kosztolányi is born.
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- How the insanity defense that saved Ezra Pound from a treason conviction for collaborating with Mussolini’s regime “has created permanent difficulties for assessing his literary achievement and, for that matter, reckoning with his politics.” | The Nation
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