Table of Contents

This issue, with a themed section on Magic guest-edited by London-based artist Jonathan Allen, is 128 pages and includes a pull-out poster by Implicasphere.

• Inventory / Talk to the Hand
  Brian Dillon
  Deciphering the language of gesture
• A Minor History Of / Aquatic Ambulism
  Joshua Foer
  The sport of God
• Colors / Olive
  Dziga Lovechild
  Kind of conceptual
• Object Lesson / Lost Object
  Celeste Olalquiaga
  What can be said about what Breton loved?

• The Porcupine Illusion
  George Prochnik
  Freud’s prickly secret
• The Illusionistic Magic of Geometric Figuring
  Margaret Wertheim
  Virtual reality, medieval-style
• Stripes
  Implicasphere
  Belly up to the bars
• Simmering Statecraft
  Sandy Isenstadt
  Politics amid the pots and pans
• Artist Project / Kitchen I & II
  Terence Gower
  
• The Real Thing
  Joshua Glenn
  The Coke bottle and the third way
• The Bitter Scribe of Quail Springs
  Sandy Zipp
  John Samuelson's Rocks
• Marking Territory
  Sarah Whitney Womack
  Into the jungle with man's best friend
• The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut
  Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman
  An analysis of the libel case
• Sivan vs. Finkielkraut
  A translation of the trial transcript

• Deceptionists at War
  Jonathan Allen
  Martial magic
• Perspective Correction
  Greg Allen
  The beguiling stagecraft of American politics
• Image Magic
  Alexander Nagel
  Idol hands are the devil's tools
• Artist Project / Legerdemains
  Ruth Claxton
  
• Black Herman's African American Magical Synthesis
  Yvonne P. Chireau
  Between folklore and vaudeville
• Modern Enchantments: An Interview with Simon During
  Sina Najafi and Simon During
  Secular magic and the modern cultural imagination
• Impossible Return
  Adrian Heathfield
  Watching Tommy Cooper die, again
• Alive at Both Ends
  Paul Kieve
  A brief history of magic's most famous illusion
• I Can See Your Ideology Moving
  Sally O'Reilly and Ian Saville
  Ventriloquizing Marx
• Artist Project / Tommy Angel
  Jonathan Allen
  
• Protean Fakirs
  Shreeyash Palshikar
  Indian magic's new superstar
• Koringa: From Biknar to Blackpool
  Vanessa Toulmin
  
• Currencies of Wonder
  Tim Reed
  Magicians make money
• Rule 13
  Edwin A. Dawes
  David Devant's illusion
• Spell Check
  Craig Conley
  A brief glossary of magic words

• Postcard / The Mystery Card
  Scott Penrose
  
• Bookmark / Perforation Curse