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Topic: Magic

Various cheese on board on stone table (karandaev / Getty Images )

"Cheese Magic" is your new cooking bible

Ashlie D. Stevens
1998 Sandra Bullock and Nichole Kidman stars in the new movie "Practical Magic." (Getty Images/Warner Bros./Hulton Archive)

Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic

Alison Stine
The Queen of Hearts & The Magic Castle (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When marriage is magic, not an illusion

Barbara Neal Varma
Hannah Waddingham as The Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" (Photo by Matt Kennedy/Disney)

Waddingham's power in "Hocus Pocus 2"

Alison Stine
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Magician Joshua Jay (Photo provided by Joshua Jay)

The magical thinking of magicians

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(JSquared Photography/The CW)

Penn Jillette: The Salon interview

Alli Joseph
(Getty/Olivier Douliery)

Donald Trump, dark magician of chaos

Chauncey DeVega
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-160669p1.html'>ollyy</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Lying about Santa may be good for kids

Kristen Dunfield - The Conversation
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Lana Del Rey (Getty/Christopher Polk)

How Lana Del Rey ruined Trump

Gabriel Bell
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Jaroslaw+Saternus'>Jaroslaw Saternus</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

"Mysticore" is the New Norm

Laura Bolt
David Copperfield (Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach)

Copperfield should rejoice

Antoaneta Roussi
Scene still from "Magic in the Moonlight"

David Walker - Religion Dispatches
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Harry Houdini, circa 1899. (AP)

The Houdini-Industrial complex

Rachel Shteir
(Reuters)

Katie McDonough
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