T.J. English

A journalist and a culture critic talk about the life of contemporary Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, the inspiration behind a new film starring Johnny Depp.

Decades before the 1959 revolution, the “Havana Mob” of American gangsters, led by financier Meyer Lansky, controlled Cuba. T.J. English writes of this bygone era in Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution.