‘you don’t have to be a mother to relate to a person going through a crisis of self’

Mothers are the most familiar strangers in our lives, says novelist Abigail Bergstrom. We grow up believing we know them inside out, and, yet, how much of them do we truly see?

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

The first season of Netflix hit Wednesday smashed records and made a huge star of Jenna Ortega . Now she’s back in season two with Catherine Zeta-Jones and new co-star Joanna Lumley

OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS, ELLE HAS CELEBRATED CREATIVITY OF ALL KINDS. HERE, A RANGE OF TODAY’S LEADING ARTISTS, WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND DIRECTORS SHARE THE RITUALS, ROUTINES AND REALITIES BEHIND THEIR GREATEST WORKS, FROM MIND-BLOWING EXCEL SHEETS TO THE MAGIC OF THE DARK ROOM

Claudia Savage-Gore watches her friends succumb to lust

Night as a space of fear and imagination