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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 Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, s...

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 House. Enter Wren, the Facebook-Twitter megasite that rules Silicon Valley in Version Zero. Wren is def...

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 university, would step in as its acting executive director. A search for a new executive director will ...

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. When: Through April 4 Tickets: $25 Info: Call 321-1397 or visit UrbaniteTheatre.com. In the play’s...