After learning some tricks, young magician Aanya Sheth hopes to shatter stereotypes and inspire girls to join the magical world. As a young girl enchanted by the world of magic, I have always wondered ...

Pulling a rabbit from a top hat. Teleporting from one cage to another. Finding a coin behind a five-year-old’s ear. Magic has long inspired a sense of awe and wonder, but one portion of the population ...

Sleight of hand expert Ben Seidman is back with Vanity Fair once again to review more sleight of hand tricks, pickpocketing and psychological magic in films including 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of ...

Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices of Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, and Jain ascetics. This studio portrait of an ...

Close your eyes and imagine a sound, someone’s voice, coming from your left. It slowly shifts to come from behind you, then moves to your right. Around and around, it circles. Suddenly, the voice ...

Fall down the rabbit hole that is “Party Magician TikTok” and you’ll find plenty of card tricks, vanishing doves, and pure, unadulterated joy. Most videos there, captioned something like “POV you ...

One hundred and forty-three years ago, on a dimly lit stage at the Berlin national theater, a Bavarian carpet maker turned director named Max Auzinger observed something that would change his life—and ...

A British society of magicians expelled a woman for tricking her way into the club in 1991. Now it wants to invite her back, but the woman seems to have pulled a disappearing act. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

The holiday season is a magical time of year. The Champions of Magic stopped by the Kennedy Center on their 2025 Holiday Spectacular Tour to bring their own version of holiday magic. In case you have ...