cover image Travels in HyperReality

Travels in HyperReality

Umberto Eco. Mariner Books, $15 (324pp) ISBN 978-0-15-691321-8

``This uneven collection reflects the Italian scholar's love of the Middle Ages--one essay compares American universities to monasteries, another focuses on Thomas Aquinas--though, for the most part, Eco relentlessly analyzes the present,'' reported PW. (Mar.)