Tales of levitation tend to belie stark inequalities and various forms of violence (often upon women).
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In the world of Harry Potter, beasts are to be protected, not feared. But this concern for monsters is hardly modern.
These days they are scary, but for the ancients, ghosts could be quite useful.
One of popular music’s most influential artists, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, turned 80 this year. It is a good time to acknowledge his work as irreducibly complex, deeply layered, subtle and nuanced.
Pretty much all of our perception is an illusion, whether we’re walking down the street or attempting to decode the latest card trick.
Magic plumbs the same questions philosophers have been asking for millennia.
When Kepler was at the very height of his scientific career, his mother was accused of witchcraft.
Think of your favourite magic trick. Is it as grandiose as David Copperfield’s Death Saw, or is it as simple as making a coin disappear in front of your very eyes? These two very different tricks have…
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