Dating Game – Frank McNally on writers getting their datelines crossed, from Joyce to Elmore Leonard

‘Whitey’ Bulger and the queasy celebration of notorious thugs

‘Whitey’ Bulger, like the Krays, Ned Kelly and the General, is idealised in film

F.B. Eyes: 50 years of policing African American literature

New book explores how J. Edgar Hoover’s ghostreaders monitored half of all known African American writers working between 1919 and 1972