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A New Testament scholar reviews Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.

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I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…