Magic and Magicians

June 6, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Handsome Man Seeking a Larger Home’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Blazing a Path Trading poodle skirts and blouses for trucker hats and flannels, […]
May 28, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Also, He’s a Magician’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Blazing a Path Trading poodle skirts and blouses for trucker hats and flannels, […]
December 2, 2023

Being a Woman in Magic May be the Hardest Trick of All

Though it was nearly five decades ago, Gay Blackstone can still vividly recall the first time she was sawed in half onstage. Her screams were an […]
May 23, 2021

The Berglas Effect: Magic’s Best Card Trick

At 94, the magician David Berglas says his renowned effect can’t be taught. Is he telling the truth? LONDON — In the late 1940s, the British […]
October 31, 2020

For Socially Distanced Parties, Magicians Have New Bag of Tricks

It was a Sunday evening, and Ken Scott’s audience was spellbound. Parents and children were oohing and ahhing as he delivered a string of miracles. A […]
August 14, 2020

In Prison, Learning Magic by Mail

Surfacing In Prison, Learning Magic by Mail A deck of cards cut from milk cartons. A wand made with medical tape. How a group of inmates […]
May 5, 2020

For His Next Trick, This Magician Will Delight the World

Right before India went into lockdown, on March 24, a magician named Karan Singh canceled all of his public shows and issued an invitation to his […]