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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with author Dave Eggers about his new book, The Every, a dystopian look at the near-future when one massive company controls just about everything.

The author on returning to the dystopian world of big tech in his sequel to The Circle, and how he’s taking a stand against Bezos’s empire

The event is still scheduled for April 28-30, after the print publication’s final issue comes out.

Issue No. 139, due out in February 2022, will be its last

Months after the departure of director Joshua Wolf Shenk, UNLV's institute announced on Tuesday it will stop producing the Believer next spring.

By Dave Eggers

THE EVERY This is a preorder. The Every will be released fall 2021. Books will ship prior to release. The hardcover edition of The Every is available exclusively through independent bookstores and here at McSweeney’s, the book’s independent, nonprofit publisher. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous–and, oddly enough, most beloved–monopoly ever known: the...

0Shares Don’t be evil. It’s the epigraph of David Yoon’s new satirical tech thriller, Version Zero. Yoon cites the quote as an “Internet proverb,” though it’s actually taken from the corporate code of conduct at Google. As our lives have shifted onto the Internet, we become ever more reliant on the hope that Google—and the other giant tech companies that rule the world—will keep their promise to not be evil . Spoiler: They broke that promise a long time ago. Penguin Random Hous...

Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of the books “Lincoln’s Melancholy” and “Powers of Two,” has resigned from his positions as editor in chief of the Believer magazine and artistic and executive director of the Black Mountain Institute. On March 24, staff of the institute, a literary arts center within the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the publisher of the Believer magazine, were notified via email that Shenk, 50, had resigned and that John P. Tuman, associate dean for faculty at the uni...

If you need an escape from the dystopian reality of the present, Brendan Ragan’s immersive “Safe House” offers an interlude of dystopian fiction at Urbanite Theatre. It’s a 40-minute immersive play, limited to socially distanced audiences of four. There are no live actors, except for the audience. You’re not passively watching this play; you’re in it. Ragan is both the director and playwright, and that’s the heart of his concept. IF YOU GO What: An immersive digital mystery maze. ...