Mario Puzo

The Offer review – the making of The Godfather makes for hit-and-miss TV

The splashy inside Hollywood drama on the making of The Godfather is a patchy, overlong series that is best when it sticks to the script

Adrian Horton

27, Apr, 2022 @5:04 AM

The Godfather: how the Mafia blockbuster became a political handbook

First published in 1969, Mario Puzo’s novel is a page-turning fable of 20th-century America – and now it is a set text for politicians in Washington and Westminster

Jonathan Freedland

31, Oct, 2020 @11:00 AM

Robert Evans obituary

Producer who revived the fortunes of Paramount Pictures with hit films including Love Story, The Godfather and Chinatown

Ryan Gilbey

28, Oct, 2019 @6:18 PM

Top 10 books about gangsters

From The Godfather to LA Confidential, these are some of the most compulsive tales of men who live and die in the mob

Rod Reynolds

04, Jul, 2018 @9:00 AM

Books about Las Vegas: readers' picks

Winning in Las Vegas makes a good story, but losing sometimes makes an even better one. Here are our readers’ favourite books about Sin City

Marta Bausells

02, Jul, 2015 @5:28 PM

The top 10 books about the mafia

Whether through the seductive myth of honourable outlaws, or the bloody truth of ruthless criminals, this shadowy group has generated a vast literature – these are its highlights

Roberto Dainotto

01, Jul, 2015 @11:47 AM

Gangsters in fiction – quiz

Eighty years ago today, Bonnie and Clyde were killed in an ambush in Louisiana – but even in life they were surrounded by myth and legend. Can you separate fact from fiction? Test your outlaw knowhow with our gangster fiction quiz

Amber Segal

23, May, 2014 @2:03 PM

The Godfather by Mario Puzo - review

alannahbee2: 'When the gunfire and butchery has ceased, you yourself are left questioning to what limits you would go for your family's protection'

alannahbee2

09, Feb, 2014 @9:00 AM

Michael Crummey's top 10 literary feuds

From Paradise Lost to Blood Meridian, the Canadian writer picks his favourite tales of bickering and brawl

Michael Crummey

04, Apr, 2012 @10:47 AM

To be continued … the grand tradition of prequels and sequels

Elizabeth Bennet has been reimagined as a lesbian, a cannibal and a serial killer. James Bond and Sherlock Holmes have had countless reincarnations. Now Long John Silver has made a comeback. This is part of a long tradition, argues Mark Lawson

Mark Lawson

09, Mar, 2012 @10:46 PM