Too clever for their own good

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

WINDINGS NO STRAIGHT ROAD TAKES YOU THERE ...

TRICKS LITERARY ILLUSIONS Performance magic and Victorian ...

Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines but books need better publicity

Wyndham Lewis’s pro-fascist polemical novel was enabled by a left-wing writer

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...