Best of 2021: The Stories We Missed
Since we started the #longreads hashtag in 2009 to share great reads on Twitter, curation has been the beating heart of Longreads.
自从我们于 2009 年开始使用 #longreads 标签在 Twitter 上分享精彩读物以来，策展一直是 Longreads 的核心。
We highlight our favorite stories in our weekly Longreads Top 5, and at year’s end — in what is now a decade-long tradition — we revisit and reflect on the pieces we loved most.
我们在每周的长读前 5 名中突出显示我们最喜欢的故事，并在年底——按照现在长达十年的传统——我们重新审视并反思我们最喜欢的作品。
Today, though, we’re celebrating some of the best stories we missed.
不过，今天我们要庆祝一些我们错过的最佳故事。
It happens — there’s a lot out there to read, and only a few editors here combing through as much as we can.
确实有这样的情况——有很多东西可供阅读，而这里只有少数编辑尽可能地进行梳理。
Thankfully, we’ve got our community of readers (that’s you!) and the authors honored in our Best of 2021 lists to fill in the gaps.
值得庆幸的是，我们的读者社区（就是您！）和入选 2021 年最佳榜单的作者填补了空白。
## Nuclear Cats, Vivian Blaxell, Meanjin Quarterly, September 2021
## 《核猫》，Vivian Blaxell，Meanjin Quarterly，2021 年 9 月
Exceptional essays often form around the connections a writer can make from their particular place in the world.
优秀的论文通常是围绕作家与他们在世界上的特定位置建立的联系而形成的。
In “Nuclear Cats,“ Vivian Blaxell connects life experience in legal and health systems with wild and domestic animals, the function of language, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nature of consciousness….
在《核猫》中，维维安·布莱克塞尔将法律和卫生系统中的生活经历与野生动物和家养动物、语言的功能、福岛第一核电站灾难、意识的本质联系起来……。
And it’s funny.
这很有趣。
Blaxell’s voice is addictive!
Blaxell的声音让人上瘾！
—Author Briohny Doyle, honored in Best of 2021: Personal Essays
——作家 Briohny Doyle，荣获 2021 年最佳个人散文奖
## Call Me a Traitor, Kerry Howley, New York, July 20, 2021
## 叫我叛徒，Kerry Howley，纽约，2021 年 7 月 20 日
Nobody writes more beautifully about the horrors of our world than my New York colleague Kerry Howley.
没有人比我的纽约同事凯瑞·豪利（Kerry Howley）更精彩地描写我们这个世界的恐怖。
Her story on drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale is the piece I’ll remember most from this year.
她关于无人机战争举报人丹尼尔·黑尔的故事是我今年最难忘的一篇文章。
—Author Reeves Wiedeman, honored in Best of 2021: Investigative Reporting
——作者 Reeves Wiedeman，荣获 2021 年最佳调查报告奖
## High-Rise Syndrome, Sally Wen Mao, The Believer, May 29, 2021
## 高楼综合症，Sally Wen Mao，《信徒》，2021 年 5 月 29 日
From the piece: “When cats fall out the windows of tall buildings, the worst injuries result from falling out the first to the sixth stories.
摘自文章：“当猫从高层建筑的窗户掉下来时，最严重的伤害是从一楼到六楼掉下来。
Cats that fall from higher stories (i.e. the tenth or twentieth floors) sustain less serious injuries.
从较高楼层（即第十或二十层）坠落的猫所受的伤害较轻。
In other words, the closer you are to the ground, the more you reckon with your death, the less time you have to bend your body against the terminal velocity.
换句话说，你离地面越近，你就越担心自己的死亡，你需要弯曲身体对抗最终速度的时间就越少。
This is called high-rise syndrome.
这就是所谓的“高层综合症”。
It is science, not metaphor.“
这是科学，而不是隐喻。”
—Recommended by author Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, honored in Best of 2021: Profiles
——作者 Vanessa Angelica Villarreal 推荐，荣获 2021 年最佳：个人资料奖
## ‘He Thought What He Was Doing Was Good for People,’ Chris Outcalt, The Atlantic, August 13, 2021
## “他认为自己所做的事情对人们有益”，Chris Outcalt，《大西洋月刊》，2021 年 8 月 13 日
I generally defer to the expertise of physicians, especially when it comes to the medical decisions made by my elderly parents.
我通常会尊重医生的专业知识，尤其是当涉及到我年迈父母做出的医疗决定时。
Reading this story, I could imagine myself as the protagonist, Marian Simmons, going along, trusting, believing my life was at risk.
读这个故事，我可以想象自己是主角玛丽安·西蒙斯，一路走来，信任，相信我的生命处于危险之中。
This story changed my mind by showing me how vulnerable we all are to unnecessary medical procedures in the U.S. health-care system.
这个故事改变了我的想法，它向我展示了我们所有人都多么容易受到美国医疗保健系统中不必要的医疗程序的伤害。
—Reader Mya Frazier
——读者米娅·弗雷泽
## Teaching Poetry in the Palestinian Apocalypse, George Abraham, Guernica, September 27, 2021
## 《巴勒斯坦启示录中的诗歌教学》，乔治·亚伯拉罕，格尔尼卡，2021 年 9 月 27 日
From the piece: “Maybe it’s not a universal Capital-A-Apocalypse I want to excavate language for, but a lowercase-a-apocalypse that colonialism has imposed on Indigenous and dispossessed peoples since the beginning of the settler project.
文章中写道：“也许我想挖掘的语言不是一种普遍的大写启示录，而是自定居者项目开始以来殖民主义强加给土著和被剥夺人民的小写启示录。
The tired apocalypse.
疲惫的世界末日。
The assumed apocalypse.
假设的世界末日。
An apocalypse that keeps (a notion of) their world alive, at the expense of (a notion of) our own.“
这是一场以牺牲我们自己的（概念）为代价，让他们的世界（的概念）保持活力的世界末日。”
—Recommended by reader Vesna Jaksic Lowe
——读者 Vesna Jaksic Lowe 推荐