Reader’s Corner: Umberto Eco’s ‘Numero Zero’

Umberto Eco’s latest novelNumero Zerogoes on sale today. It’s a slim fantasy about crackpot conspiracy theories and journalists who play the game of massaging the truth a little too well.

Eco toldNPRthathe hopes readers of his novel“will become more suspicious and attentive when reading a newspaper.”

My review is atPopMatters:

Beware of stories by hack journalists who are given a chance at doing something greater and in the process discover that the seemingly too-good-to-be-true offer masks s...