Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox
Now the predictions of his bestseller ‘The Circle’ have been superseded, his sequel to the dystopia has had to reach deeper
Is the Trump presidency too ridiculous and darkly funny to bear the writer’s fictional satire?
Musicians are cautiously optimistic about the gradual cultural liberalisation of their country
Two cultures illuminate one another in this true story of a US-raised entrepreneur caught up in Yemen’s civil war
Real life in 2017 is creepier than the ‘dystopian future’ imagined in Eggers’ novel
Technology is all-conquering but it may be time for the consumer to take back control
A mother and her children take an escapist road trip to Alaska
Tom Hanks shines as a troubled American businessman in Saudi Arabia
Video guard dogs are reassuring until they bark at everything
A kidnapper recounts his frustrations with modern America to seven unlucky captives
In the west the realm between private and public has never looked so blurred, says John Thornhill
The Canadian artist creates densely populated drawings that are influenced by Goya as well as Duchamp
In ‘The Circle’, Dave Eggers compares private sector surveillance with Soviet-era eastern Europe
There is a flaw in any business that relies on pushing users into addictive but unsettling activity
Let’s make more stuff: memories of a beloved stereo cabinet fuel the American novelist’s handmade revolution
An ageing American salesman reaches for relevance in an indifferent world
Films examine fallout from the shale gas revolution
International Edition