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NOW VOYAGER is a new magazine of global writing, art, and photography. https://nowvoyagermag.com/
Read Cameron Hudson's brilliant dispatch from Sudan's civil war in our second issue: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/a-... "Standing among the rubble and the ruin, it’s easy to focus on what has been taken, but it’s what has been erased that is the most difficult to absorb."
Sudan’s Civil War: Ruins of Khartoum
Cameron Hudson reports from Khartoum on the Rapid Support Forces offensive that has left the capital in ruins, with photographs by Giles Clarke.
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Sodade comes straight from the heart. In our most recent travelogue, Florent Mazzoleni reports from his peregrinations around the islands of Cabo Verde looking for the nostalgic sounds of Morna, and how he came face to face with postcolonial history: nowvoyagermag.com/travel/in-se...
A Journey Through the Music and History of Cabo Verde
Florent Mazzoleni travels the islands of Cabo Verde in search of sodade, a musical tradition shaped by the country’s history.
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@nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social I discovered Now Voyager thanks to the podcast "L'Atelier des médias" (Radio France International) - see the link below - and wish Hélène Werner and Nicolas Niarchos (co-founders/editors) the best of luck. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
« Now Voyager » : quand le journalisme américain refuse de se replier sur lui-même
Épisode de balado · Atelier des médias · 30 mai · 39 min
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Spit in a tube and get a tapestry: artists are now weaving DNA into cloth on Jacquard looms—the same machines that gave us binary code. Textiles aren't a trend. They're the original technology. 🧵 Ginevra de Blasio's new piece on why fiber is eating the art world: nowvoyagermag.com/culture/the-...
An Examination of the Long History of Textile Art and Its Modern “Rediscovery”
Despite centuries at the center of artistic practice, textile and fiber art are contemporary art’s newest obsession. Why are they still treated as new?
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The British photographer James Clifford Kent's image of Neisser Yoel Gálvez Tabares, a sixteen-year-old Cuban fencer is our cover for NOW VOYAGER Issue 2. As the country suffers through yet more embargoes, Kent's images remind us of the human cost of politics: nowvoyagermag.com/art-photogra...
A Photograph by James Clifford Kent of a Fencer in Cuba
British photographer James Clifford Kent captures a young Cuban fencer in his award-winning photograph, Neisser.
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As China rises to fill the void left by America’s global geopolitical retreat, and as more Chinese people travel and migrate around the world, why does Sanmao’s version of Africa still have such an unparalleled pull on millions of Chinese? @jacobkushner.bsky.social: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/st...
Sanmao Introduced Chinese Readers to Africa. But Were Her Stories True?
Millions of Chinese readers discovered the Sahara through Sanmao’s stories. Jacob Kushner revisits episodes from her life and asks how much of what she wrote was true.
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Reading THE FENCE @thefence.bsky.social is a reminder that print (and the press) is not dead. Hard-hitting stories, powerful writing and a lot of laughs: the-fence.com/rumours-of-o...
Rumours of Our Death
Print Ain’t Dead, Baby
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@jacobkushner.bsky.social has written a brilliant piece about Sanmao, the Chinese-language Joseph Conrad, worshipped by millions, taught in schools and mourned 35 years after her death. It's up now for NOW VOYAGER, ISSUE 2. Give it a read here: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/st...
Sanmao Introduced Chinese Readers to Africa. But Were Her Stories True?
Millions of Chinese readers discovered the Sahara through Sanmao’s stories. Jacob Kushner revisits episodes from her life and asks how much of what she wrote was true.
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Jacob Kushner@jacobkushner.bsky.social · 3mo ago7 years in the making, this feature took me to six countries on 4 continents. The epic story of the famous writer turned travel influencer who became China’s literary lens into Africa, and the world. But was Sanmao’s Africa real? nowvoyagermag.com/ @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social
7 years in the making, this feature took me to six countries on 4 continents. The epic story of the famous writer turned travel influencer who became China’s literary lens into Africa, and the world. But was Sanmao’s Africa real? nowvoyagermag.com/ @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social
An astonishingly good profile via @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social, the kind that both paints a complex portrait of its subject, while delighting on the sentence level nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/a-...
Who Is Pietrangelo Buttafuoco? The Conservative Who Is Defying Expectations at the Venice Biennale.
Buttafuoco’s appointment as Venice Biennale president has divided his critics. He is proving far more complex than expected. A closer look at his beliefs and the contradictions that define him.
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Pietrangelo Buttafuoco was meant to be Meloni's man at the Venice Biennale. Instead, he appointed an African woman as curator and invited Russian artists in the name of truce. Read our unprecedented profile of Buttafuoco, a Muslim convert who became "the freest person on the Italian right." #Venice
Who Is Pietrangelo Buttafuoco? The Conservative Who Is Defying Expectations at the Venice Biennale.
Buttafuoco’s appointment as Venice Biennale president has divided his critics. He is proving far more complex than expected. A closer look at his beliefs and the contradictions that define him.
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📞 CALL ME — the artist Camille Henrot talks to NOW VOYAGER's art editor Malù Dalla Piccola. They discuss phones as umbilical cords, the humiliation of waiting for a call, and the weaponization of language Herewith a portfolio + dialogue from Issue 01 nowvoyagermag.com/art-photogra...
Camille Henrot on Communication, Surveillance, Motherhood, and Language--From the Telephone Cord to the Umbilical Cord.
Camille Henrot explores loneliness, surveillance, and the vanishing intimacy of phone calls. Her sculptures of hunched figures and interactive hotlines probe what happens when communication systems fa...
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In “The Journey Home,” Laura Pannack returns to Cape Town to document working-class neighborhoods where apartheid’s spatial violence still shapes daily life: Read the photo essay and text by Sean Jacobs in Issue 01: nowvoyagermag.com/art-photogra...
Laura Pannack's Photographs of Cape Town's Townships: Apartheid's Unfinished Legacy in South Africa
Laura Pannack Cape Town township photography 2026. Children families Khayelitsha Nyanga — apartheid Group Areas Act legacy. Social documentary portraiture youth vulnerability South Africa.
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"You could only expect this to be horrendous, but then you’d still be caught off guard precisely when the horror strikes from an angle you never expected." —John Gibler for @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social
Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared: Uncovering the Clandestine Killings of the Zetas in Veracruz
For thirteen years, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez has led soldiers, forensic teams, and fellow mothers into the mountains of Veracruz to dig up the clandestine graves of Mexico's disappeared. She is still…
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Everyone's celebrating AI-generated art while anime tropes have already quietly colonized the entire contemporary art world in plain sight. Paige K. Bradley reports from the Lucca Comics & Games on how Japan is the culture war's real winner. read her essay now: nowvoyagermag.com/culture/mass-medium
How Anime Conquered Global Culture: From Neon Genesis Evangelion to Palmer Luckey’s Military Tech and the Vatican’s Mascot
A report on how tropes from anime culture in Japan have come to dominate a certain type of contemporary art.
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Today's #history article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @swilliamsjourno.bsky.social & @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/be...
Did New Zealand’s Pink and White Terraces Survive? The Search for the Eighth Wonder of the World
In 1886, a volcanic eruption buried the Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand. Now, rival scientists, Māori tribes, and a government under pressure are racing to determine whether the terraces surviv...
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Really happy to have this story in the first issue of the new @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social, a magazine stuffed full of excellent things. Read it online or in print
Now Voyager@nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social · 4mo agoA barrister. A polluted river. A radical legal idea. In our latest, @t-mcconnell.bsky.social follows Paul Powlesland along the River Roding and into the heart of a global movement to give nature its own rights. 📷 Paul Hart. Read it here: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/th...
How does someone speak for nature? How does one earn the right to do so? My latest story—for new magazine @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social—is about a British lawyer, a polluted London river, and the global rights-of-nature movement nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/th...
The Barrister Fighting to Give English Rivers Legal Rights | Now Voyager
Paul Powlesland, River Roding, UK, rights of nature, citizen scientists, legal rights rivers and trees, eco-activism.
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So excited that @swilliamsjourno.bsky.social 's piece on New Zealand was chosen by @longreads.com as one of the week's best reads. nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/th...
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Longreads@longreads.com · 5mo agoIn this week's Top 5: —Transcendent techno (@yalereview.bsky.social) —Site unseen (@nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social) —Therapy: it’s complicated (@grantamag.bsky.social) —Step forward, background music (@nytimes.com) —The doodle drug (@newyorker.com)
A barrister. A polluted river. A radical legal idea. In our latest, @t-mcconnell.bsky.social follows Paul Powlesland along the River Roding and into the heart of a global movement to give nature its own rights. 📷 Paul Hart. Read it here: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/th...
The Barrister Fighting to Give English Rivers Legal Rights | Now Voyager
Paul Powlesland, River Roding, UK, rights of nature, citizen scientists, legal rights rivers and trees, eco-activism.
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Peter Kimani visits a colonial-era manor turned luxury hotel in Kenya's Laikipia and finds the contradictions of colonial nostalgia and land dispossession impossible to ignore. Read his stunning essay in Issue 01 of @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social: nowvoyagermag.com/travel/heritage-property
Sleeping in the Colonizer’s Bed: A Kenyan Novelist Confronts British Colonial Nostalgia in Laikipia’s Luxury Hotels
What does neo-colonial travel look like? A dispatch from the intersection of postcolonial memory and the travel industry.
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For 13 years, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez has been digging up clandestine graves across Veracruz, searching for her disappeared daughter. "The Search," by John Gibler, is a devastating portrait of one mother's war against Mexico's machinery of impunity: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/th...
Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared: Uncovering the Clandestine Killings of the Zetas in Veracruz
For thirteen years, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez has led soldiers, forensic teams, and fellow mothers into the mountains of Veracruz to dig up the clandestine graves of Mexico's disappeared. She is still l...
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Now Voyager, a new bimonthly print magazine dedicated to longform international reporting, coming March 12. Find us online here: nowvoyagermag.com
