The Circle

The Circle is not a great novel, but it is a necessary one. The explosion of technology and the erosion of privacy have been met with barely a peep of skepticism. Dave Eggers takes up a sledgehammer, not a scalpel, in dissecting how today's shibboleths can lead to tomorrow's horrors. In the 1950s, Bill Buckley said his magazine "stands athwart history, yelling Stop." Eggers, at least, is yelling today.