Dan Brown's new book, "The Secret of Secrets," is perhaps his most ambitious to date: "There's no bigger theme than human consciousness." (Cheryl Senter / For The Times) Writing is hard. Writing books ...

Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the second installment of a blog series taking you ...

NEW YORK -- Thriller novelist Dan Brown, best known for the blockbuster “The Da Vinci Code,” announced his next book will be published this year. Publisher Doubleday Books announced Wednesday that ...

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...

IN “THE REPUBLIC” Plato asked readers to consider the implications of the ring of Gyges, which makes its wearer invisible. How would (and should) people act if they knew that their bad behaviour would ...

Programmers are human, but mathematics is immortal. By making programming more mathematical, a community of computer scientists is hoping to eliminate the coding bugs that can open doors to hackers, ...

One of my favourite books from 1997 is Ellen Ullman's collection of essays, Close to the Machine. Ullman began her adult life as an aspiring writer, diverted into software engineering for a decade or ...

Writing is hard. Writing books is harder. So as a mere plebeian author interviewing Dan Brown for the first time, I needed to know: After you've sold 200 million books, does it get any easier? "It's ...