Banned booksThe book that 'could corrupt a nation'While its literary value has been questioned, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness still acts as a beacon for sexual self-discovery, writes Hephzibah Anderson.CultureA Soviet novel 'too dangerous to read'Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed "the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within", writes Nicholas Barrett.CultureThe books too powerful to readForty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning.Culture