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...

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...

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...

@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...

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-...

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

📞 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...

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...

"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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Now Voyager, a new bimonthly print magazine dedicated to longform international reporting, coming March 12. Find us online here: nowvoyagermag.com