For a Magician Like Me, Conversion Therapy Was the Ultimate Illusion
My family wanted me to change so badly, I suspended my disbelief and tried to imagine I could.
My family wanted me to change so badly, I suspended my disbelief and tried to imagine I could.
When her husband died and left her penniless, audacious Adelaide Hermann transformed from lowly assistant to “the Queen of Magic.”
In a world where women are often the "lovely assistant," Tanya Solomon takes charge by making her own magic.
In the heart of youth-obsessed Hollywood, a century-old mansion for magicians refuses to bow to modernity.
Twenty years after a complex card game first captivated millions of devotees, I.T. guys, attorneys and longshoreman alike gather every weekend for battles of epic proportion.
Far from the ominous spells and creepy pin-dolls of the silver screen, three New Yorkers debunk the myths about Haiti's ancient religion.
Long after its heyday, New York's oldest surviving sleight-of-hand shop still draws die-hards to an unimaginative stretch of Midtown Manhattan.
Inside the enchanted bond between a neophyte illusionist and an octogenarian legend.
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