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Jamy Ian Swiss

For eighteen years (June 1994 - January 2013), Jamy Ian Swiss wrote thoughtful, opinionated, long-form reviews of magic books for Genii magazine. Jamy's reviews contain insights deeper than just product recommendations, and so we have worked to assemble the entire series (almost 450 magic book reviews) in one complete and fully searchable archive.

Also, from October 2016 through January 2020, Jamy wrote reviews for the Lyons Den at the Magicana website.

Read Jamy's essay, Critical Thinking on his tenure as a book reviewer, or search for, or choose a review below:

Search for a review:
Book Author Date
Workers Number Five Michael Close

Oct 1996
The Expositor William Frederick Pinchbeck

Oct 1996
The Warpsmith Returns Tom Stone

Aug 1996
Hugard's Magic Monthly Volumes VIII, IX AND X Jean Hugard, Editor and Publisher

Aug 1996
Bertram On Sleight Of Hand Ross Bertram

Aug 1996
Magic Yellow Pages 1996 Wittus Witt

Aug 1996
Why Not? Chuck Smith

Aug 1996
Seance Scott Moore-Davis

Jul 1996
The Fine Art Of Hocus Pocus John Booth

Jul 1996
Michael Gallo's Siamese Coins Stephen Hobbs

Jul 1996
Lou Gallo, The Underground Man Richard Kaufman and Mark Phillips

Jul 1996
The Books Of Wonder Volumes One And Two Tommy Wonder and Stephen Minch

Jun 1996
Growing In The Art Of Magic Eugene Burger

May 1996
Everything Is Funnier With Monkeys Doc Dixon

May 1996
Elastrix: The Encyclopedia Of Rubber-Band Magic Volume II Stephen Minch

Apr 1996
Torn And Restored John Carney

Apr 1996
Card College Volume Two Roberto Giobbi

Apr 1996
A Candle In The Dark Thomas Ady, M.A.

Apr 1996
Pocket Power Jarle Leirpoll

Mar 1996
Cheating At Blackjack Squared: The Dark Side Of Gambling Dustin D. Marks

Mar 1996
After Craft J. K. Hartman

Mar 1996
Modern Art Jim Steinmeyer

Mar 1996
The Complete Dungeon Anthony Owen

Mar 1996
The Abracadabra Kid Sid Fleischman

Mar 1996
The Illustrated History Of Magic Milbourne and Maurine Christopher

Mar 1996
Hugard's Magic Monthly Volumes XI, XII AND XIII Jean Hugard, Editor and Publisher

Mar 1996
Simply Simon Simon Aronson

Feb 1996
The Discoverie of Witchcraft Reginald Scot

Feb 1996
The Magic Of The United States Robert James Albo, M.D.

Jan 1996
Carter The Great Mike Caveney

Jan 1996
Miracles With Cards James Swain

Jan 1996
Restaurant Magic The Restaurant Worker's Handbook A Practical Guide To To Restaurant Magic Jim Pace & Jerry MacGregor

Jan 1996
The Feints And Temps Of Harry Riser Ed Brown

Jan 1996
The Art Of Astonishment, Books 1, 2 Paul Harris

Jan 1996
Cardshark Darwin Ortiz

Dec 1995
The Equivoque Choice Jack Dean

Dec 1995
The Ultimate Bill Switch Kevin King

Dec 1995
The Dai Vernon Book of Magic Lewis Ganson

Dec 1994
Beat'em, Cheat'em, Leave'em Bleeding Mister Big 'N' Fast Bobby Knuckles

Dec 1994
Paramiracles Ted Lesley

Nov 1994
Champagne & Imp Romp 2 Lewis Jones

Nov 1994
Magic Around the World Bill Ragsdale

Nov 1994
Antiquarian Magic and Collectibles, Catalog 39 Antiquarian Magic and Collectibles

Nov 1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Volume 2 Stephen Minch

Oct 1994
The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini Aldo Colombini

Oct 1994
Las Vegas Kardma Allan Ackerman

Oct 1994
Workers Number 4 Michael Close

Sep 1994
Words about Wizards Robert Parrish

Sep 1994
The Tarbell Collection Harlan Tarbell

Sep 1994
Rediscoveries: New Ways of Framing Old Favorites Eugene Burger

Sep 1994