The Expert at the Card Table has been widely acclaimed by the geniuses in our field as the finest book on sleight of hand with cards ever written. Yet we don't know who wrote it but now we have a good deal of evidence that the man on our cover this month is the author, the elusive S.W. Erdnase. For those who aren't aware of the hubbub surrounding the true identity of E.S. Andrews, Dr. Richard Evans's article will give you a lot of the story and then some.
Artifices is a failure a Push-Through Failure, that is; so says Roberto Mansilla.
This month Rafael Benatar's Thoughts are those of Howard Hamburg; let the stories commence!
Take David Kaye's Ethics Exam this month in The Expert at the Kids Table.
Demonstrate your mental dexterity with your quizmaster David Britland in Cardopolis.
Let's all sing like the birdies sing, with John Gaughan in Chamber of Secrets.
Jon Racherbaumer digs up a lost trick by Alex Elmsley in Exhumations.
Magicana delivers two tricks this month via Robert Ramirez, one from Joshua Messado (and it does not use the Linking Rings), and a second from Griffin Watts.
In The Eye, Vanessa Armstrong delivers some news worth reading (as opposed to the bulk of the news, which is not).
Shawn McMaster brings us the latest from out west in Knights at The Magic Castle.