Peter ConradHistory booksAsk Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposéThe journalist’s sickening account of how generations of Kennedys casually abused the women around them with impunity is a timely reminder of the dangers posed by damaged men who crave power
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Emma BrockesInterviewAnita Desai: ‘After I left India, I had to train myself to express my opinions’At 87, the Indian author has been shortlisted for the Booker prize three times, and has written her first novel in a decade. She talks about leaving India to teach and write around the world – and feeling like a stranger everywhere