MODERNISM: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION by Christopher Butler (OUP, £7.99) Writers of an Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction have a difficult task on their hands, and this is no exception.

Oxford University Press will publish Reading, the 600th title in its Very Short Introductions (VSI) series, next month. Launched in 1995 to fill a perceived gap for a general introduction series for ...

Nugent's book accomplishes three important things in very few pages. First, it provides an irreproachable and clear summary of the conventional view of the American Progressive movement and its ...

David N. Myers, an accomplished and distinguished Jewish historian, has written a small book about a very big subject: “Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford). It’s the latest title in ...

It is difficult to write a very short introduction to a subject as vast as English literature, but few people are better qualified to do so than Bate, an eminent Shakespearean and the biographer of ...

Oxford University Press is launching a children’s version of its Very Short Introductions series aimed at youngsters aged nine to 12. The Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds series will ...