Table of Contents

2012 Summer

Magic Shows

Introductory

• Wonders Never Cease: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Sorcery

• Teller's Seven Laws of Magic: 2012 / Las Vegas
• Steven Millhauser Sets the Stage: c. 1898 / Vienna
• Corpse Orders: c. 700 / China
• Excitable Boy: 1533 / Rome
• A Witch's Nipple: 1979 / London
• Merlin Makes His Mark: c. 1470 / London
• Waiting for Greenspan: 1996 / Washington, DC
• Rapper’s Delight: 1865 / Bridgeport, CT
• Danilo Kiš Tests a Hypothesis: c. 50 / Samaria
• Patient, Heal Thyself: 1891 / Boston
• The Medium is the Message: 1946 / Lhasa
• Bird Call: c. 1200 / Assisi
• John Berendt Receives a Tutorial: 1982 / Beaufort, SC
• On Better Authority: 1529 / Mexico
• The Master’s Tools: c. 170 / Athens
• No Truth Beyond Magic: 1952 / Phraxos
• Witch-Hunt: 372 / Antioch
• Necessary Evils : c. 450 BC / China
• Give It Time: 1758 / England
• Disenchantment: 1917 / Munich
• Where the Magic Happens: 1947 / New York City
• Looking Into the Mirror of Galadriel: c. 1945 / Middle-earth
• Interpreting the Signs: 396 / Hippo

Metamorphosis

• Lauren Slater Hears Opening Arguments: 2001 / Montreal
• Driving the Point Home: 1897 / England
• Let Us Now Praise A Famous Man: c. 1775 / Philadelphia
• Bristling Into Swine: c. 1190 / Aeaea
• Harriet Martineau Under A Spell: 1844 / Tynemouth
• Beauty is Particulate: c. 1250 / Konya
• Alchemy By Other Means: 1786 / Philadelphia
• Breaking Into New Markets: 1974 / New York City
• Knowing When to Quit: 1922 / Sea Cliff, NY
• Opening a Cabinet of Curiosities: c. 1887 / Calw
• Active Ingredients: c. 200 / Pataliputra
• Feeding Frenzy: c. 405 BC / Athens
• Revisionist History: 1886 / Belgium
• A Thieving Serpent: c. 2500 BC / Sumer
• Magic Bullets: c. 1960 / United States
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone?: 1829 / Baltimore
• Spasmodic Tricks of Radiance: 1956 / Cambridge
• Yielding to Circumstance: c. 150 / Thessaly
• Laws of Nature: 1704 / London
• Lost and Found: 1836 / St. Petersburg
• Raising the Dead: c. 1510 / Dôle
• Phillip Pullman Sharpens the Knife: 1995 / Oxford
• Win-Win Situation: 69 / Alexandria
• Christopher Marlowe Arranges A Deal: c. 1590 / London

Visitations

• Not on the Books: 2008 / New York City
• Black Sabbath: 1609 / Ciboure
• Strange is the Madness: 1894 / Japan
• Cat Power: 1920 / Ulthar
• Due Respect: c. 1012 / Japan
• Jung and Freud Offer Differing Diagnoses: 1909 / Vienna
• From Ashes: c. 1177 / Neyshabur
• Ghost Dance: c. 1690 / Sichuan
• Before the Fall: c. 540 / Babylon
• Issac Bashevis Singer Finds it in the Stars: 1973 / New York City
• Job Requirements: c. 300 / Syria
• More Questions Than Answers: c. 1756 / West Africa
• While The World Is Full Of Troubles: 1886 / Sligo
• The Icehouse at Night: c. 1900 / New York
• Witness Credibility: 1692 / Salem
• Anamorphosis: 1927 / Moscow
• Phantom Rising: 1842 / Brussels
• Accounting Standards: c. 1145 / Byzantium
• Margin of Error: 1519 / Tlaxcala
• Axis of Evil: 1484 / Rome
• Beyond Miracles: c. 1860 / Macondo
• True Blood: 1732 / Hungary
• Mikhail Bulgakov Makes it Rain: c. 1935 / Moscow
• Tipping Point: 1645 / Holland

Departments

Essays

• Healing Spirits: by Daniel Mason
• A Well Without A Bottom: by John Crowley
• W.B. Yeats, Magus: by Jamie James
• Very Superstitious: by Colin Dickey

Conversations

• Aphra Behn & Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller: Better Loving Through Chemistry
• Michel de Montaigne & James Frazer: Knowledge is Power
• Sei Shōnagon & Roman Catholic Church: Casting Out the Spirits

Miscellany

• Dragons, Horseshoes, Stinking Ponds: Findings from the Editors

Biography

• Stage Light: by Andrew McConnell Stott

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