Fourteen Days co-edited by Margaret Atwood review – a pandemic tale
On my radar
On my radar: Dave Eggers’s cultural highlights
January 2024
Book of the day
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel review – a starry patchwork inspired by the dark days of Covid
Editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston round up 36 big literary names for a spirited Decameron-style collection of shaggy dog stories and tales of lost love
February 2023
What we're reading
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January
Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
January 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 novels about office jobs
The places where half of waking life unfolds for many people aren’t famous settings for drama, but writers from Muriel Spark to Dave Eggers show why they should be
July 2022
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Dave Eggers, Rebecca Solnit and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from an open-minded study of drugs to affecting short stories
May 2022
Dave Eggers offers to replace books a South Dakota school board wants to pulp
The writer calls the planned destruction of copies of five titles – by Bernardine Evaristo, Alison Bechdel, Imbolo Mbue and Stephen Chbosky as well as his own – ‘an unconscionable horror’
January 2022
‘It’s a glorified backpack of tubes and turbines’: Dave Eggers on jetpacks and the enigma of solo flight
When inventor David Mayman took to the skies, it seemed he’d answered an age-old longing for flight. So why did no one seem to care?
November 2021
Book of the day
The Every by Dave Eggers review – big tech is watching you
This dystopian Silicon Valley sequel is witty, but the satire is underpowered
Book of the day
The Every by Dave Eggers review – scathing big-tech satire sequel
The writer’s follow-up to The Circle is longer and baggier, but still fuelled by rage at the power of Silicon Valley and its numbing effect on the human race
‘The Every is about an all-powerful monopoly that seeks to eliminate competition’: why Dave Eggers won’t sell his new hardback on US Amazon
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
October 2021
Dave and Goliath: maverick writer Eggers makes a stand against Amazon
The author likes small bookshops. So he won’t let the online giant sell his new hardback
March 2021
Lockdown culture
Margaret Atwood to edit collaborative modern Decameron for the Covid era
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorised Gathering imagines New York neighbours sharing stories amid the pandemic, with contributors from Dave Eggers to Celeste Ng
September 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about social media
In fiction and in fact, these books trace how in less than 15 years, billions of people have given up a good deal of their waking life to Web 2.0
February 2020
Vivian Pham on western Sydney, fan-fiction and The Coconut Children: ‘I hope it’s universal’
The 19-year old debut author felt stifled in school, but found her space in her refugee father’s stories, Cabramatta and a non-profit writing centre
December 2019
Suncatcher by Romesh Gunesekera review – coming of age in Sri Lanka
The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers review – overfamiliar comedy
August 2019
Dave Eggers: why we should listen to teenagers speak about climate crisis
As the International Congress of Youth Voices kicks off Puerto Rico, the Guardian invited young delegates to write about their fight against the climate crisis
April 2019
The Parade by Dave Eggers review – nation-building parable by numbers
For all Eggers’s stylistic brilliance, this parable about western assistance in a strange land fails to properly explore the ideas it raises
March 2019
The Parade by Dave Eggers review – a fable with a twist
Two men with a road to build: the US author’s latest novel is a lean parable about war and its aftermath
