Fooling Houdini

In his quest to become a master magician, Alex Stone has met some unforgettable characters -- including a blind card shark -- and learned astonishing lessons about deception and perception. This blend of memoir and neuroscience reveals his hard-won knowledge of a fascinating, secretive world.

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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