Book of the week: The Contrarian by Max Chafkin

Biography challenges the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of idealism and progressive liberalism

Mike Pence, Donald Trump and Peter Thiel
Mike Pence, Donald Trump and Peter Thiel during a meeting with technology executives at Trump Tower, New York City, in December 2016
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Dave Eggers’ new novel is a sequel to The Circle, his hugely successful 2013 satire about a “Facebook proxy”, said Dominic Maxwell in The Times. In this follow-up, The Circle has rebranded itself as The Every, after swallowing up a rival known as “The Jungle”.

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