Jonathon Norcross is a feature writer for Collider. He's also written for People, InsideHook, and Brooklyn Magazine, among other outlets. He co-produced the feature documentary Break the Game, which ...

THE BIG BANKROLL (369 pp.)—Leo Katcher—Harper ($5). Gangster Arnold Rothstein’s life story is the sort of straw out of which psychologists make their bricks. At the age of three, the future “Big ...

One hundred years might seem like a long enough time to wait. But what we are talking about here is the Black Sox scandal, baseball's darkest hour and an oft-told tale that has captured the ...

"It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of 50 million people--with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe." -- Nick Carraway on gambler Meyer Wolfsheim, a ...

Dapper gentlemen with quick eyes and imperturbable faces frequent, or used to frequent, a little restaurant at 50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests—dog and ...

It was an idyllic domestic scene straight out of a Hollywood talkie: A pretty young wife kisses her dapper, handsome husband goodbye at the door of their suburban bungalow on a pleasant summer day, a ...

"Boardwalk Empire" star Michael Stuhlbarg was attacked by a rock-wielding homeless man just outside of Central Park over the weekend. The startling incident unfolded on Sunday night around 7:45 PM ...