review Nichts ist klar Ian Buruma’s new book looks at Berliners’ compromised struggles for normalcy, and survival, during World War II By Paul Baumann
How Babel Thrives A study of religious life in Queens suggests that pluralism works not by erasing difference but by letting communities live side by side By David Sugarman
Religion, American Style A massive new history of American religion is short on Quakers, doesn’t forget the Shakers, and has so much more By Jon Butler