Table of Contents | Notebook Issue 9: “Smoke and Mirrors”

"Smoke and Mirrors" is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world. And now, for our next trick! Issue 9 of Notebook invites readers to journey through the intertwined histories of magic and cinema, uncovering screen wonders both spiritual and secular. After an unearthed foreword from stage-magician-turned-auteur Orson Welles, Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey and scholar Stephen Ryley revive a ghostly proto-cinematic illusion from the Victorian era that still delights today. Filmmaker Kamal Swaroop’s kaleidoscopic collages showcase a foundational figure from e

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