Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown. Houdini’s “Magicians ...

In a new documentary he plunges himself into an ice cold water bath, and holds his breath for as long as possible as he emulates the famous escapologist's training for submerging himself into rivers ...

In Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind, Alex Stone explores the connection between science and magic, and ponders why we love being fooled. Stone has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If he were alive today, Harry Houdini would probably be unsatisfied with the singular job title “magician”. The ...