Many famous writers' bylines have graced the pages of the National Catholic Reporter in the past six decades. Greeley was prolific. He wrote more than 120 books, both scholarly and popular fiction, ...

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 ...

As I'm probably one of only a handful who hasn't read the book or seen the film of The Da Vinci Code, I was looking forward to the play based on Dan Brown's bestselling novel of 2003 described as ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 5 4 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists The story follows Robert Langdon, who is in Paris to deliver a lecture on symbols at a university.

When a woman turns up bludgeoned to death outside her mother’s apartment in a rough section of a British town, Detective Inspector Andrew Hicks is confident that he knows who the killer is. He likes ...

We cling to tidy success narratives—appealing stories that trace an outsize triumph to a single critical decision, a vital personality trait, a striking incident from childhood. Such stories make ...