At the end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around Paris and London for more than two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was just an old cup or the womanly seed of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, ...

Some critics might swat Angels & Demons with tepid adjectives — “bustling” and “fumbling” spring to mind — but the only review that really matters came in last weekend. L’Osservatore Romano, the ...

Two years ago this month, Doubleday published a historical thriller with an announced first printing of 85,000 and high hopes that a little-known writer named Dan Brown would catch on with the public.