Critical Mass: This week in TNR’s books and culture

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The best of TNR’s arts and culture coverage

The Flawed Fantasy of a Different Hillary Clinton

Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel Rodham imagines an alternative world in which Hillary never marries Bill.
By LAURA MARSH

The fourth and final installment of the culinary travelogue takes the bromance to new heights.
By ALEX SHEPHARD

Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.
By JOSEPHINE LIVINGSTONE

The Jesus trilogy is an ambitious, unearthly reckoning with desire and disaster.
By RYU SPAETH

For the late, great novelist, American politics was one end-of-times after another.
By SCOTT BRADFIELD

The legacy of Donald Judd in a time of quarantine
By KYLE CHAYKA

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