Rupert Everett steals the show as an evil inquisitor, but this messy adaptation of Umberto Eco’s mystery in the abbey requires the patience of a saint to follow

Writers as different as JRR Tolkien and Jorge Luis Borges have stacked some of their most giddying visions on imaginary shelves. Check them out

Stories that appear to buy into hidden plots, from Franz Kafka to Thomas Pynchon, have an insistent appeal for readers looking to find out ‘what really happened’

This collection of magazine columns published in Italy after the author’s recent death covers a vast array of subjects, from Facebook to Berlusconi to gun control – are all subject to his illuminating but rather withering glare

Asking, answering – and sometimes sneakily evading – readers’ spiritual questions, literature offers many memorable men of the cloth

What could have been an entertaining satire of the way we construct reality feels like a self-indulgent exercise in conspiracy theories