In 1999, an anonymous Italian collective published a novel called Q. Imagined by its left-wing authors as an \u201coperation manual for cultural disruption,\u201d the book has had a bewildering political afterlife, with its story arc and the collective\u2019s media pranks around Satanic ritual and paedophilia seemingly providing the basis for alt-right conspiracy theory QAnon. Did [\u2026]