Tom Hodgkinson

The shipwreck of dreams

31 January 2015 9:00 am

In the early 19th century, the Romantic movement was in full swing across Europe. You could probably date its birth…

An idler’s idyll

18 October 2014 9:00 am

Oblomov, first published in 1859, is the charming tale of a lazy but lovable aristocrat in 19th-century Russia. The novel’s…