matthew weiner

Matthew Weiner’s ‘Heather, the Totality’ Is Chillingly Empty

Matthew Weiner’s ‘Heather, the Totality’ Is Chillingly Empty

The Mad Men creator's debut novel has noir roots but plumbs his familiar territory of modernist anxiety with a savage precision.

If You’re Suspicious of the Pitch, Read ‘Mad Men, Death, and the American Dream’

If You’re Suspicious of the Pitch, Read ‘Mad Men, Death, and the American Dream’

If Mad Men’s slickness allow us to enjoy the existential emptiness at the heart of American identity without implicating us, Bronfen’s volume works to close that distance.

In Defense of the Influence of ‘Difficult Men’

Tomorrow Never Knows: Race and Anxiety in ‘Mad Men’

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