Magic, one of America’s oldest pastimes and a multimillion-dollar industry, has been transformed by the digital age. With the tools of social media at their disposal, young magicians today have strong ...

“The Internet is paradigmatic magic,” writes New York-based cultural critic Virginia Heffernan. “It turns experiences from the material world that used to be densely physical … into frictionless, ...

In the words that follow, I’ll introduce you to an Internet magic company CEO, an old-school grandmaster, a magic historian and a passionate amateur just back from Iraq. And I’ll pull back the curtain ...

In 1998, my father riffled a red deck of playing cards while we attended a family reunion on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia. He asked me to pick one, and I told him to stop when his fingers reached ...

Dai Vernon was a young father, and he needed money. He wasn’t broke, but he sure wasn’t rich. He wanted to perform magic, not get a proper job. And back in the 1930s, proper jobs were hard to come by, ...