Especially the strategic kind. But I'm getting ahead of myself, putting the conclusion horse in front of the post cart. Who decided strategy was a fixed, once and for all, proposition? Well, whoever that was, I will plead being a woman and an Italian to boot for not reading it. We do live in the "both/and" age, where the massive number of ideas on this site are both overlooked and not referenced, despite the many links going the other way. Look, here goes another link to the evolution of…

The first time I called Umberto Eco, he was sitting at his desk in his seventeenth-century manor in the hills outside Urbino, near the Adriatic coast of Italy. He sang the virtues of his bellissima swimming pool, but suspected I might have trouble negotiating the region’s tortuous mo...

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“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.” Umberto Eco, Italian, writer

His scholarship was as impressive as his fiction, and he pursued both with a good-natured humility.

Literary great Umberto Eco has passed away. Here are 5 remembrances of the man and his work.

As an essayist, he forever changed the way we think about popular culture. As a novelist, Umberto Eco has written the secret history of the world.