Vanessa is Genii’s associate editor as well as a writer focused on history, culture, and entertainment with bylines at The New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications.
Thanks to Bobby Borgia, Harry Kellar’s hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania has a venue that pays homage to the Golden Age magician.
According to TikTok, magicians are so back. Magician Nadav Roet talks to Cosmopolitan magazine
A magician’s command of smoke and orbs.
A new lavishly illustrated kids book about seven women from magic’s Golden Age
The Magicians Room brings a mix of family shows and after-dark magic to the Las Vegas Strip
Sam Raimi to remake Magic, the 1978 psychological horror about a ventriloquist and his murderous dummy
A new illusion show, based on the Now You See Me franchise, will premiere at the Sydney Opera House this December
Nikola Arkane will be studying manipulation in South Korea with help from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Toronto Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman doubles as the team’s clubhouse magician
The comic book writer finds some inspiration in his magic
An intimate theater hidden away inside of Art of Play, a curio shop in Brooklyn, New York.
Steve Martin dusts off his card-handling from his magician days in for Season 5 of Only Murders in the Building