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Thursday 24 September 2009

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This week's issue of the TLS

A picture of William Golding

William Golding and the capacity for evil

"I have always understood the Nazis": William Golding was an ambitious and complicated late starter who did not understand the impulses behind his own books; Allan Massie reviews John Carey's biography of the novelist.


The Lethbridge Viaduct, Canada

The Anglo-world of settlers, not dominators

A new history of the "Anglo-world" explains and illuminates the troubled history of "Imperialism", yet, as Bernard Porter points out, hardly mentions the term at all.

A steam train in Siberia

Thomas Keneally's Australian Reds

Catriona Kelly finds that The People's Train lurches from event to event, and would benefit from more saturation in contemporary sources.

In the rest of the paper, you will find soft despotism, Russian Eurasianism, Renaissance usury and, last but not least, In Brief.