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, ...

“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 Côte d'Ivoire, brouteurs are known for chasing a life of fame and fortune. Alexander Newell African studies have long wrestled with how to represent the phenomena of witchcraft, magic and spirits ...