A New Magazine? In This Media Environment?
Now Voyager, an ambitious publication packed with dispatches from around the world, throws itself a party in Harlem.
Days after reporting on a criminal trial in Europe for The New Yorker, William Finnegan moved through the crowd at Shrine, a world music club in Harlem, where a party was underway for a new magazine called Now Voyager.
As the Congolese ensemble Orchestre Moto played jubilant sebene tunes, Mr. Finnegan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning international correspondent, nursed a drink and chatted with young journalists. He nodded approvingly when he thumbed through the first issue of Now Voyager, which costs $29 and resembles an art object version of Foreign Affairs.
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