We take the weekend to highlight recent books coverage in The Times:

Ronan Farrow’s damning exposé

The highly-anticipated “Catch and Kill” comes out next week, building off Farrow’s investigative reporting into the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and his predatory behavior toward women. (The Times and The New Yorker shared the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in public service for exposing wealthy and powerful sexual predators, including Weinstein, in articles by Farrow, the Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and others.)

Many of the book’s most explosive claims have already been shared. Among other big revelations, the book contends that Matt Lauer, the former NBC anchor, raped a colleague, which Lauer has forcefully denied. Farrow also goes after executives at the network, claiming they repeatedly blocked his investigation of Weinstein. (NBC has pushed back against those allegations.)

“The behavior documented in ‘Catch and Kill’ is obviously and profoundly distressing,” our critic, Jennifer Szalai, writes in her review of the book. “But there are some hopeful threads, too.”

Nobel Prize for Literature causes a stir

Last year’s award was postponed over a scandal involving a husband of an academy member, so two authors were honored this year: Olga Tokarczuk of Poland and Peter Handke of Austria.