The Charlestown neighborhood of Boston is renowned for churning out a high number of armed robbers, generation after generation. These robbers never leave their Charlestown life on their own volition, ...

Chuck Hogan's flawed but powerful third novel is at bottom a portrait of a man and the world that shaped him. The man is bank robber Doug MacRay, and his world is "Charlestown, our one square mile of ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Doug MacRay is lost. A pro-hockey recruit turned bank robber, Ben Affleck’s MacRay ...

If they handed out awards for actors who get the most out of mere minutes of screentime in a feature film, the late Pete Postlethwaite would be an easy contender — for, if nothing else, the florist ...