It’s another big month for books.

Ronan Farrow’s book — coming on the heels of “She Said,” by the Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey — exposes systems of power that enable predators. Other titles speak to our disjointed times, in one way or another: The MSNBC host Rachel Maddow investigates the corrosive effects of the gas and oil industry; the cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams offers an insightful new consideration of race in America; Jeanette Winterson explores Brexit, virtual reality and more in her contemporary riff on “Frankenstein.” Elizabeth Strout brings back her beloved character Olive Kitteridge, and Zadie Smith releases her debut collection of short stories. Here’s a look at the titles we’re watching for most closely.

Maddow, the MSNBC host, trains her eye on the lucrative oil and gas industry, exposing the corruption and havoc it has spread across the world — polluting the environment, weakening democracies and keeping autocrats in power. She also makes the case that Russia’s interference in the 2016 United States election was tied to the country’s oil business.

Farrow, who, in reporting for The New Yorker, shared a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service last year with The Times for investigations into sexual harassment in the workplace. The book details the extraordinary lengths some of the world’s most powerful people, including Harvey Weinstein, go to protect themselves: silencing their accusers, intimidating journalists and more.

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Stewart, a Times columnist, looks at two simultaneous F.B.I. investigations in the lead-up to the 2016 election: one inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and another into Donald Trump’s financial and political entanglement with Russians. Looking at these investigations together shows how closely linked they were, and the book examines the lasting ramifications for the Department of Justice, the executive branch and the public’s trust in government.