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Understanding our fascination with the criminal underworld. Jia Zhangke takes an empathetic look at criminal brotherhoods in China in his new gangster film Ash Is Purest White. Stand-up comics reveal what it was like working in Vegas when mobsters owned the clubs. A brave critic defends The Godfather: Part III. And how the late Sue Grafton created the seedy universe of her Alphabet crime novels.
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