Magic

Life

Why do we like to be baffled?

Audiences and magicians alike are always looking for the next surprise. That’s what makes life fun

Mark Mason

Diving into the history of magic

Owen Davies’s Art of the Grimoire issues a robust defense: magic is as old as human history

Suzi Feay

Stormy Daniels’s good fortunes

A tarot reading from the world’s most notorious porn star

Cockburn

American magicians in London

In 2003, David Blaine spent 44 days in a plexiglass box suspended above the River Thames. It was amazing, yes, but it wasn’t magic

Revd Steve Morris

Education

The great awokening

Do social justice warriors believe in magic?

Toby Young