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NOW VOYAGER is a new magazine of global writing, art, and photography.
The British photographer James Clifford Kent's image of Neisser Yoel GĂĄlvez 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:
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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.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/art-photography/issue-02-cover
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As China rises to fill the void left by Americaâs global geopolitical retreat, and as more Chinese people travel and migrate around the world, why does Sanmaoâs version of Africa still have such an unparalleled pull on millions of Chinese?
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Sanmao Introduced Chinese Readers to Africa. But Were Her Stories True?
Millions of Chinese readers discovered the Sahara through Sanmaoâs stories. Jacob Kushner revisits episodes from her life and asks how much of what she wrote was true.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/storyteller-of-the-sahara
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Reading THE FENCE
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is a reminder that print (and the press) is not dead. Hard-hitting stories, powerful writing and a lot of laughs:
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Rumours of Our Death
Print Ainât Dead, Baby
https://the-fence.com/rumours-of-our-death/
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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:
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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 Chinaâs literary lens into Africa, and the world. But was Sanmaoâs Africa real?
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Nadia Bailey
12 days ago
An astonishingly good profile via
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, the kind that both paints a complex portrait of its subject, while delighting on the sentence level
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Who Is Pietrangelo Buttafuoco? The Conservative Who Is Defying Expectations at the Venice Biennale.
Buttafuocoâs 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.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/a-free-man
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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."
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Who Is Pietrangelo Buttafuoco? The Conservative Who Is Defying Expectations at the Venice Biennale.
Buttafuocoâs 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.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/a-free-man
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đ CALL ME â the artist Camille Henrot talks to NOW VOYAGER's art editor MalĂč 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
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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...
https://nowvoyagermag.com/art-photography/call-me
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In âThe Journey Home,â Laura Pannack returns to Cape Town to document working-class neighborhoods where apartheidâs spatial violence still shapes daily life: Read the photo essay and text by Sean Jacobs in Issue 01:
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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 â apartheid Group Areas Act legacy. Social documentary portraiture youth vulnerability South Africa.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/art-photography/the-journey-home
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"You could only expect this to be horrendous, but then youâd still be caught off guard precisely when the horror strikes from an angle you never expected." âJohn Gibler for
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Searching for Mexicoâs Disappeared: Uncovering the Clandestine Killings of the Zetas in Veracruz
For thirteen years, Araceli Salcedo JimĂ©nez 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 stillâŠ
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/the-search?src=longreads
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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:
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How Anime Conquered Global Culture: From Neon Genesis Evangelion to Palmer Luckeyâs Military Tech and the Vaticanâs Mascot
A report on how tropes from anime culture in Japan have come to dominate a certain type of contemporary art.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/culture/mass-medium
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Jack El-Hai
about 2 months ago
Today's
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article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of
#popularhistory
. Congrats to writer
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Did New Zealandâs 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, MÄori tribes, and a government under pressure are racing to determine whether the terraces surviv...
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/beneath-the-long-white-cloud?utm_source=www.lunchbreakreads.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=lunch-break-reads-march-25-2026
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Tristan McConnell
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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
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How does someone speak for nature? How does one earn the right to do so? My latest storyâfor new magazine
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âis about a British lawyer, a polluted London river, and the global rights-of-nature movement
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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.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/the-river-guardian
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So excited that
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's piece on New Zealand was chosen by
@longreads.com
as one of the week's best reads.
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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. đ· Paul Hart. Read it here:
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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.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/the-river-guardian
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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
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:
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Sleeping in the Colonizerâs Bed: A Kenyan Novelist Confronts British Colonial Nostalgia in Laikipiaâs Luxury Hotels
What does neo-colonial travel look like? A dispatch from the intersection of postcolonial memory and the travel industry.
https://nowvoyagermag.com/travel/heritage-property
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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:
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Searching for Mexicoâs 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...
https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/the-search
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Now Voyager, a new bimonthly print magazine dedicated to longform international reporting, coming March 12. Find us online here:
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