30 Jan 2026 - 12:01am

Meet the scourge of the mafia Leonardo Sciascia exposed Sicily’s rotten core

Caroline Moorehead

01.10

Who killed the East End mobster? Gangsterism couldn’t survive globalisation

Dominic Adler

16.08

How the mafia infiltrated Germany La Dolce Vita has seduced politicians

Max Daly

24.04

Why Italy’s hooligans can’t kick drugs Gangsters cash in on counterculture

Tobias Jones

28.10

How the Mob went mainstream Is this the end of the Italian-American?

Andrea Valentino

09.07

Italy’s bridge to nowhere Salvini has staked his career on a nationalist fantasy

Tobias Jones

05.04

Taxi drivers are corrupting Italy Politicians can't resist the cartel economy

Tobias Jones

19.02

I went to New York for university – and ended up in the Mob One drunken night saved my life

Gordon Marino

28.03

How the Netherlands became a narco state Drug lords create a climate of fear

Senay Boztas

17.12

Why do we love gangsters? Damon Runyon invented the good bad guy

John Self

24.09

The dark origins of the Sopranos The show revolutionised television — but now it has been squeezed into a film

Dorian Lynskey

25.02

Are you a ‘basic conservative’? As Tony Soprano shows, we all long for clear-cut social norms — even if we disobey them

Ed West