Alexander Manshel

Sep 11, 2024 | thenation.com | Alexander Manshel

Books & the Arts / September 11, 2024How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. Ad PolicyThe 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)On Friday, the judges of the National Book Awards will announce the long list for this year’s prize for fiction.

Nov 21, 2023 | lithub.com | Alexander Manshel

Since the publication of his first novel in 1999, Colson Whitehead has become one of the most lauded, prized, taught, and studied American novelists writing today.

Nov 6, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Alexander Manshel |Melanie Walsh |Hoyt Long |Aarthi Vadde

We are not the cultural consumers we used to be. Data, streaming, and Web 2.0 have remade how we read and how we watch. Platforms are the new publishers. But although we consume culture differently now, much of how we talk about and study it remains lodged in the analog world of the 20th century. It’s time for our methods to catch up with our objects. Born digital culture requires a born digital approach.