Sarah Gailey’s Magic for Liars is a magical noir in two ways: it’s magical in the sense of being addictive and transporting, and it’s also magical in the more straightforward sense, which is to say, it’s a noir in which most of the characters are, indeed, mages. Ivy Gamble, who has spent her life feeling inadequate compared to her magically-gifted sister, Tabitha, has turned into the hard-drinking, hard-living PI of the noir tradition–and, in keeping with predecessors like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Ivy lives in […]