Mad Men is universally regarded as one of the greatest ... Set in the cutthroat world of investment banking in London, the HBO series follows a group of young up-and-comers as they try to carve ...

Mad Men is a kind of time machine ... No. He’s writing the novel in London, at a time of a lot of change, industrial revolution and poverty and—you know, Dickensian means one thing.

Ask any historian: Writing about any legendary figure is hard. Writing about a killer is harder. Matthew Weiner has spent the past decade obsessed with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. “I am ...