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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. "Beware of faking," Umberto Eco warned in his 1988 novel, Foucault's ...

Bookish digressions and odd cultural details are two reasons we read Umberto Eco. He takes great pleasure in showing readers the monastic care of books in "The Name of the Rose," the kabbalah in ...

Umberto Eco's latest work is rife with fabrications, conspiracy theories, fakery, espionage and political drama. Already a best seller in Spain, Italy and other countries, The Prague Cemetery is a ...

THE PRAGUE CEMETERY, by Umberto Eco. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 464 pp. $28. Mischievous, ghastly, scholarly and facetious, Umberto Eco's "The Prague Cemetery" is a novel befitting the author of "The ...

Conspiracies, it seems, are everywhere these days. But sometimes we can forget that this line of thinking — that major events, and even the entire world, are overseen and controlled by shadowy ...

Ambitious writers are often said to challenge their readers. That's certainly true in the case of Umberto Eco and his latest novel, "The Prague Cemetery," but not, perhaps, in quite the expected way.