Yossi Sheffi is the author of this intensely disturbing book about the experience of American and Israeli Jews on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre. Sheffi holds an endowed chair in engineering systems at MIT and is a member of the faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, and the Operations Research Center. He is a leading expert in supply chain management and the author of nine books in his areas of professional expertise. He has been a member of the MIT faculty for almost 50 years.

The tiny island nation of Taiwan finds itself at the center of a potential great power war between the United States and China. Such a conflict would be devastating beyond measure. But as Eyck Freymann argues in his new book Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China, the conquest of Taiwan might not unfold as we'd expect.

Before shooting up Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, Dylann Roof "spent months visiting local museums and plantations and churches, including Mother Emanuel," Beverly Gage writes in This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. "When the police arrived, his car was strewn with travel brochures."

Were you a Ferris or a Lucas? Did you have it all figured out in high school, like the eponymous trickster from 40 summers ago? Could you hoodwink your parents, fool your school, and charm (or manipulate) your friends so you could live a carefree, adventurous life? Or were you more like the title character from Lucas, the less-remembered high school movie, also set in the Chicago suburbs, released just a few months earlier: a peculiar kid with weird pastimes, the target of bullies, the lovelorn loser stuck in the friendzone?

A Queens man who was indicted for manslaughter late last month after killing a woman in a three-car crash and then fleeing the scene was also charged with hate crimes yesterday for allegedly destroying property outside a kosher bagel shop just days before the crash.