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All through December, we’ve been featuring Longreads’ Best of 2023.

整个 12 月，我们一直在精选 Longreads 的 2023 年最佳作品。

Today, we’re sharing a list of every story that sat atop our weekly Top 5 email.

今天，我们将分享每周排名前 5 的电子邮件中每个故事的列表。

These story picks tend to be important pieces that, over time, chart the course of history.

这些故事精选往往是重要的片段，随着时间的推移，它们描绘了历史的进程。

Watch the year unfold as you revisit our selections.

当您重新审视我们的选择时，观看这一年的进展。

## — January —

## — 一月 —

## No Way to Live

## 没有办法活下去

Ethan Ward | Capital & Main | December 27-28, 2022 | 7,714 words

伊桑·沃德 |资本及主要| 2022 年 12 月 27-28 日 | 7,714 字

Last month, Karen Bass, the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, declared a state of emergency with regard to homelessness in the city.

上个月，新当选的洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯宣布该市针对无家可归者进入紧急状态。

In a matter of days, teams began moving unhoused people from outdoor encampments into hotel and motel rooms as part of a new government program called “Inside Safe.” But as this poignant three-part series shows, street homelessness accounts for only a fraction of LA’s housing crisis.

几天之内，团队开始将无家可归的人从户外营地转移到酒店和汽车旅馆房间，这是一项名为“内部安全”的新政府计划的一部分。但正如这个令人心酸的三部分系列节目所示，街头无家可归者只占洛杉矶住房危机的一小部分。

People like Sarah Fay, the 28-year-old subject of the series, live on the precipice of homelessness, a position that requires a daily hustle to find a safe place to sleep.

像剧中 28 岁的主角莎拉·费伊 (Sarah Fay) 这样的人生活在无家可归的边缘，这种处境需要每天努力寻找安全的睡觉地点。

The reasons for this kind of housing insecurity are complex, going well beyond low incomes and soaring rents.

这种住房不安全的原因很复杂，远远超出了低收入和飙升的租金的范围。

Fay’s story, told so well by reporter Ethan Ward, is shaped by generational trauma, the burden of debt, maddening bureaucracy, and cultural stereotypes about what it means to be a person in need.

记者伊桑·沃德 (Ethan Ward) 讲述了费伊的故事，讲述了代际创伤、债务负担、令人抓狂的官僚主义，以及对需要帮助的人意味着什么的文化刻板印象。

Read this story, and send it to your elected officials, in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

阅读这个故事，并将其发送给洛杉矶和其他地方的当选官员。

—SD

—SD

## Vigilantes for Views: The YouTube Pranksters Harassing Suspected Scam Callers in India

## 义务警员争取观看次数：YouTube 恶作剧者在印度骚扰涉嫌诈骗的来电者

Andrew Deck and Raksha Kumar | Rest of World | January 10, 2023 | 5,737 words

安德鲁·戴克 (Andrew Deck) 和拉克莎·库马尔 (Raksha Kumar) |世界其他地区 | 2023 年 1 月 10 日 | 5,737 字

Justice can mean equality, and it can also mean retribution.

正义可以意味着平等，也可以意味着报应。

In the case of Artsiom Kulik and Ashton Bingham, who have carved out a robust career orchestrating “scambusting” videos, their conception seems to skew heavily to the latter.

以 Artsiom Kulik 和 Ashton Bingham 为例，他们在编排“诈骗”视频方面开创了辉煌的职业生涯，但他们的观念似乎严重偏向后者。

But Kulik and Bingham’s gleeful payback has a discomfiting subtext.

但库里克和宾厄姆的愉快回报却有一个令人不安的潜台词。

Somewhere along the way, Trilogy Media graduated from simply annoying phone scammers to releasing mice and cockroaches into a Kolkata call center — and as the stakes have gotten bigger, so has the sense that this isn’t really about justice at all.

一路走来，Trilogy Media 从简单的烦人的电话诈骗者，发展到向加尔各答的呼叫中心释放老鼠和蟑螂——随着风险越来越大，人们越来越感觉这根本不是正义的事。

Andrew Deck and Raksha Kumar’s piece is a profile on its face, and an investigation at its core.

安德鲁·戴克 (Andrew Deck) 和拉克莎·库马尔 (Raksha Kumar) 的作品从表面上看是一个侧写，但其核心是一项调查。

With the fake Best Picture Oscar on display in their office, the Trilogy duo sees itself as destined for bigger and better things; what they don’t see is that they’ve gone from coming up to punching down.

随着假冒的奥斯卡最佳影片奖在他们的办公室里展出，三部曲二人组认为自己注定会取得更大更好的成就；他们没有看到的是，他们已经从上来变成了下击。

This isn’t the first story to reveal the craven heart of a content creator’s ambition, but it’s the rare example that goes a step farther to tease out the troubling power dynamics at play.

这并不是第一个揭示内容创作者野心的胆怯内心的故事，但这是一个罕见的例子，更进一步地梳理了正在发挥作用的令人不安的权力动态。

—PR

——公关

## In a Famed Kenyan Game Park, the Animals Are Giving Up

## 在著名的肯尼亚游戏公园，动物们正在放弃

Georgina Gustin | Undark | January 4, 2023 | 2,363 words

乔治娜·古斯汀 |黑暗 | 2023 年 1 月 4 日 | 2,363 字

Once a wildlife paradise, Kenya’s Amboseli National Park has become a wasteland.

肯尼亚的安博塞利国家公园曾经是野生动物的天堂，如今已成为一片荒地。

Tourists on safari arrive excited but leave traumatized, reports Georgina Gustin, as carcasses of starved animals litter the terrain: “Wildebeests are gray-brown lumps with quote-shaped horns.

乔治娜·古斯汀 (Georgina Gustin) 报道说，前来狩猎的游客兴奋不已，但离开时却受到了创伤，因为饥饿的动物尸体散落在地上：“角马是灰棕色的肿块，长着引号形的角。

Gazelles, small piles of suede.

瞪羚，小堆绒面革。

Zebras, bloated disco-era carpets.” Previously a lush wildlife sanctuary, Amboseli has been plagued by climate change-fueled drought for two years and braces itself for a third.

斑马，臃肿的迪斯科时代地毯。”安博塞利曾经是一个郁郁葱葱的野生动物保护区，两年来一直受到气候变化引发的干旱的困扰，并准备迎接第三次干旱。

In addition to a parched and changing landscape, clashes between herders and farmers and an increase in illegal poaching also contribute to the dire situation.

除了干旱和不断变化的地貌之外，牧民和农民之间的冲突以及非法偷猎的增加也造成了严峻的局势。

Wildlife photographs by Larry C.

野生动物照片由 Larry C.

Price accompany Gustin’s piece, and while they may be hard to look at, they’re an important reminder that no creature can escape a warming planet.

普莱斯伴随着古斯汀的作品，虽然它们可能很难看，但它们是一个重要的提醒：没有任何生物可以逃离变暖的星球。

—CLR

—CLR

## Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing

## Corky Lee 和“看见的工作”

Ken Chen | n+1 | 11,542 words | January 25, 2023

陈肯 | n+1 | 11,542 字 | 2023 年 1 月 25 日

After Corky Lee passed last year, the photographer and community organizer was memorialized in his hometown’s most conventionally prestigious outlets: The Times offered a sizable obituary, as did Hua Hsu in The New Yorker.

Corky Lee 去年去世后，这位摄影师和社区组织者在他家乡最传统、最负盛名的媒体上得到了纪念：《泰晤士报》刊登了一篇相当大的讣告，《纽约客》的徐华也是如此。

This week, on the first anniversary of Lee’s death, Ken Chen rendered an altogether different kind of portrait in n+1.

本周，在李逝世一周年之际，陈肯在《n+1》中描绘了一幅完全不同的肖像。

Much of the same biographical information is included, as are a number of Lee’s iconic photographs of Asian Americans in New York throughout the last six decades.

其中包含许多相同的传记信息，以及李过去六十年在纽约拍摄的一些亚裔美国人的标志性照片。

Yet, when Chen writes about his encounters with Lee, and about the 14 photographs he selects to represent Lee’s work, the grief that suffuses his words isn’t solely about Lee, but about the many atrocities visited upon the Asian American community, up to and after Lee’s death.

然而，当陈写到他与李的遭遇，以及他选择代表李作品的 14 张照片时，他的言语中充满的悲伤不仅仅是关于李，而是关于李死前和死后亚裔美国人社区所遭受的许多暴行。

Chen’s critical acumen here is reason enough to read: “His images lack a charismatic subject,” he writes of Lee.

陈在这里的批判敏锐性足以让我们读到：“他的图像缺乏一个有魅力的主题，”他在谈到李时写道。

“Those whom capital dismissed as surplus, he saw as beautiful.

“那些被资本视为剩余的人，在他看来是美丽的。

He commemorated the multitude, the striking waiters and seamstresses whose unruly abundance crowded away any beatific composition.” But he brings a similar understated poetry to the social conditions Lee’s work served to illuminate — and with violence against Asian American elders and others seemingly unending (including a horrifying recent attack in my own hometown), that juxtaposition makes Chen’s piece nearly as indelible as the images it contains.

他纪念了大众，纪念了引人注目的侍者和女裁缝，她们的不守规矩的丰富挤掉了任何美好的构图。”但他为李的作品所描绘的社会状况带来了类似的低调诗歌——针对亚裔美国长者和其他人的暴力似乎永无休止（包括最近在我家乡发生的可怕袭击），这种并置使得陈的作品几乎和它所包含的图像一样不可磨灭。

—PR

——公关

## — February —

## — 二月 —

## Molly’s Last Ride

## 莫莉的最后一次骑行

Peter Flax | Bicycling Magazine | January 31, 2023 | 8,136 words

彼得·弗莱克斯 |自行车杂志| 2023 年 1 月 31 日 | 8,136 字

Exactly two years ago, 12-year-old Molly Steinsapir got onto an e-bike with her best friend, crashed, and died.

就在两年前，12 岁的莫莉·斯坦萨皮尔 (Molly Steinsapir) 和她最好的朋友骑上一辆电动自行车，发生车祸并死亡。

I remember when it happened — the tragedy was covered widely, in no small part because Molly’s mom took to social media to talk about it.

我记得事情发生的时候——这场悲剧被广泛报道，很大程度上是因为莫莉的妈妈在社交媒体上谈论了这件事。

Now, in a moving and nuanced feature, Peter Flax examines the question of who, if anyone, is liable for Molly’s death.

现在，彼得·弗莱克斯在一部感人且细致入微的专题片中探讨了谁（如果有人）对莫莉的死负有责任的问题。

Flax, who owns two bikes made by the manufacturer of the one Molly rode, a company her parents are now suing, illuminates how the explosive growth of the e-bike industry, while a seeming net good for people and the planet, isn’t without dangerous consequences.

Flax 拥有两辆由 Molly 骑的那辆汽车的制造商生产的自行车，她的父母现在正在起诉这家公司。Flax 说明了电动自行车行业的爆炸性增长，虽然表面上对人类和地球有利，但并非没有危险的后果。

There aren’t a lot of industry regulations, and there are pressing concerns about the quality of popular equipment.

行业法规并不多，人们对流行设备的质量也存在迫切的担忧。

“As a country we have decided we value entrepreneurship and business and letting people just go to market,” Molly’s mom, Kaye, tells Flax, “and then we find out if the thing is safe or not as it is sold and marketed and used.” This is one of my favorite kinds of magazine feature, the personal story that serves as a lens for a bigger one, which in turn asks people to wrestle with urgent questions.

“作为一个国家，我们决定重视创业和商业，让人们直接进入市场，”莫莉的妈妈凯伊告诉 Flax，“然后我们会在产品销售、营销和使用时了解它是否安全。”这是我最喜欢的杂志专题之一，个人故事作为更大故事的镜头，反过来又要求人们努力解决紧迫的问题。

Molly is gone, but her death may well save another 12-year-old girl somewhere.

莫莉去世了，但她的死很可能会在某个地方拯救另一个 12 岁的女孩。

—SD

—SD

## The Hunt for Russian Collaborators in Ukraine

## 在乌克兰寻找俄罗斯合作者

Joshua Yaffa | The New Yorker | January 30, 2023 | 9,078 words

约书亚·雅法 |纽约客 | 2023 年 1 月 30 日 | 9,078 字

“About all anyone can trust in war is that everybody lies.” As I read Joshua Yaffa’s piece about accusations of betrayal among residents of a Ukrainian city liberated from Russian occupation, I kept thinking about this sentence.

“在战争中，任何人都能相信的就是每个人都在撒谎。”当我读到约书亚·亚法（Joshua Yaffa）关于从俄罗斯占领下解放出来的乌克兰城市居民被指控背叛的文章时，我一直在思考这句话。

It comes not from Yaffa’s piece, but from a story about the treatment of ISIS fighters after Iraqi forces retook the city of Mosul, which I had the honor of editing six years ago.

它不是来自雅法的文章，而是来自一个关于伊拉克军队夺回摩苏尔市后伊斯兰国武装分子待遇的故事，六年前我有幸编辑过这个故事。

So often in conflict coverage, the media are quick to draw blunt distinctions: Ukraine good, Russia evil; military righteous, ISIS monstrous.

在冲突报道中，媒体常常很快做出直截了当的区分：乌克兰是好的，俄罗斯是坏的；乌克兰是好的，俄罗斯是坏的；军事正义，伊斯兰国滔天。

It’s easier, I suppose, than acknowledging that war is a hideous enterprise from which virtually nothing and no one will emerge clean.

我想，这比承认战争是一场可怕的事业要容易得多，几乎没有任何人、也没有人能从中逃脱。

In the aftermath of violence, it can be hard to discern the truth from what people wish it to be, and administering justice, while an essential moral endeavor, is also a deeply fraught one.

暴力事件发生后，人们很难辨别真相与人们所希望的真相，而伸张正义虽然是一项重要的道德努力，但也是一项令人深感忧虑的工作。

In his haunting feature, Yaffa doesn’t seek to untangle facts so much as he listens to the stories people are telling.

在这部令人难忘的影片中，雅法并没有试图理清事实，而是倾听人们讲述的故事。

They are talking to him, of course, but you get the sense that they are telling stories to themselves as well: They are remembering, processing, contextualizing, rationalizing, and in some cases rewriting.

当然，他们在和他说话，但你会感觉到他们也在给自己讲故事：他们在记忆、处理、情境化、合理化，在某些情况下甚至重写。

What do these stories and their contradictions reveal?

这些故事及其矛盾揭示了什么？

The picture is messy, which is to say, it’s true.

图片很乱，也就是说，这是真的。

—SD

—SD

## Edifice Complex

## 大厦综合体

Bench Ansfield | Jewish Currents | January 3, 2023 | 3,358 words

安斯菲尔德 板凳 |犹太潮流| 2023 年 1 月 3 日 | 3,358 字

I might have recommended this essay based on the excellent headline alone, but in fact the substance is the star of the show.

我可能会仅仅根据出色的标题来推荐这篇文章，但事实上，实质内容才是这部剧的亮点。

Like many millennials, I have adopted the term “burnout” into my vocabulary as a way of describing the feeling of working too hard, juggling too much, and feeling depleted by the grinding expectations of late-stage capitalism.

和许多千禧一代一样，我把“倦怠”这个词纳入我的词汇中，用来形容工作太辛苦、杂耍太多，以及因晚期资本主义的磨人期望而感到精疲力尽的感觉。

After reading this piece, I’ll be endeavoring to use the word differently.

读完这篇文章后，我将努力以不同的方式使用这个词。

As historian Bench Ansfield shows, the true origins of burnout as a concept have been obscured over time.

正如历史学家本奇·安斯菲尔德（Bench Ansfield）所表明的那样，随着时间的推移，倦怠作为一个概念的真正起源已经被模糊了。

Burnout isn’t a reference to a candle burning at both ends until there’s nothing left, but to the shells of buildings left by a wave of arson that ravaged Black and brown neighborhoods in New York City in the ’70s.

“倦怠”并不是指一根蜡烛两端都燃烧到什么都没有的状态，而是指 70 年代纽约市黑人和棕色人种社区遭受纵火浪潮所留下的建筑物的外壳。

Much of the damage was caused by landlords looking for insurance payouts.

大部分损失是由房东寻求保险赔偿造成的。

“If we excavate burnout’s infrastructural unconscious — its origins in the material conditions of conflagration — we might discover a term with an unlikely potential for subversive meaning,” Ansfield writes.

安斯菲尔德写道：“如果我们挖掘倦怠的基础无意识——它起源于大火的物质条件——我们可能会发现一个不太可能具有颠覆性意义的术语。”

“An artifact of an incendiary history, burnout can vividly name the disposability of targeted populations under racial capitalism — a dynamic that, over time, has ensnared ever-wider swaths of the workforce.” If this were the premise of a college class, I’d sign up in a heartbeat.

“倦怠是一段燃烧历史的产物，它可以生动地描述种族资本主义下目标人群的可处置性——随着时间的推移，这种动态已经吸引了越来越多的劳动力。”如果这是大学课程的前提，我会毫不犹豫地报名。

—SD

—SD

## The Case for Hanging Out

## 闲逛的案例

Dan Kois | Slate | February 15, 2023 | 2,753 words

丹·科伊斯 |板岩| 2023 年 2 月 15 日 | 2,753 字

Raising a young daughter and feeling socially disconnected as an adult, I constantly think about where I want to live, but also how I’d like to live.

抚养一个年幼的女儿，成年后感到与社会脱节，我不断地思考我想住在哪里，但也思考我想如何生活。

I wrote recently about seeking “community,” but I’m unsure what that even means.

我最近写了一篇关于寻求“社区”的文章，但我不确定这意味着什么。

So this piece, which explores why Americans spend less time these days hanging out with people, really speaks to me.

所以这篇文章探讨了为什么美国人现在花在与人交往的时间越来越少，这对我来说真的很有意义。

Perhaps what I long for isn’t some kind of mythical tight-knit tribe to be part of, but something far simpler: more opportunities for casual hangouts.

也许我所渴望的并不是某种神话般的紧密团结的部落，而是简单得多的东西：更多休闲聚会的机会。

But is this simple?

但这简单吗？

Dan Kois reaches out to Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, and asks if he can fly to Vermont to spend time with her, a total stranger, for a day.

丹·科伊斯联系了《闲逛：消磨时间的激进力量》一书的作者希拉·利明，询问他是否可以飞往佛蒙特州与完全陌生的她共度一天。

The piece that emerges from the visit is delightful and relatable.

这次访问中出现的作品令人愉快且引起共鸣。

I can’t help but recall my college years and my 20s: wandering over to friends’ dorm rooms to see what they were up to, piling onto couches in someone’s living room to sit and chat and laugh for hours, frequenting the dive bars and weekly club nights where I knew I’d run into familiar faces.

我情不自禁地回想起我的大学时光和二十多岁的时光：漫步到朋友的宿舍，看看他们在做什么，挤在某人客厅的沙发上，坐下来聊天、大笑几个小时，经常光顾潜水酒吧和每周的俱乐部之夜，在那里我知道我会遇到熟悉的面孔。

To borrow Liming’s words, these were “effortlessly social” times — and they seem so long ago.

借用黎明的话说，这是一个“轻松社交”的时代——而且似乎已经是很久以前的事了。

Social media, over-scheduled lives, and the pandemic have all made hanging out harder.

社交媒体、日程安排过多的生活以及新冠疫情都让外出变得更加困难。

While I also attribute my isolation to age, Kois notes how young people, including his teenage daughters, still find it hard to put themselves out there or carve out time for casual socializing.

虽然我也将自己的孤独归因于年龄，但科伊斯指出，年轻人，包括他十几岁的女儿，仍然发现很难将自己放在那里或抽出时间进行休闲社交。

While I may not be brave enough after reading this to knock on my upstairs neighbors’ door and sit on their couch to shoot the shit, I’m inspired by Kois’ openness and curiosity.

虽然读完这篇文章后我可能没有足够的勇气去敲楼上邻居的门并坐在他们的沙发上开枪，但科伊斯的开放和好奇心启发了我。

—CLR

—CLR

## — March —

## — 三月 —

## What Happened to the Women Prisoners at Hickman’s Farms

## 希克曼农场的女囚犯发生了什么

Elizabeth Whitman | Cosmopolitan | February 15, 2023 | 3,897 words

伊丽莎白·惠特曼 |大都会 | 2023 年 2 月 15 日 | 3,897 字

Even during the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was clear that, as so often happens in America, the toll of the historic event would prove heaviest for the most vulnerable among us, including the elderly, disabled individuals, and essential workers.

即使在 COVID-19 大流行的最初几天，很明显，正如在美国经常发生的那样，这一历史性事件对我们当中最脆弱的群体（包括老年人、残疾人和重要工作人员）造成的损失最为严重。

And the incarcerated.

还有被监禁的人。

The virus tore through the country’s overcrowded prisons and cut their populations off from the outside world more than they were to begin with.

这种病毒席卷了该国人满为患的监狱，使人们与外界的联系比最初更加紧密。

Arizona decided to take these horrors a step further by agreeing to set up a prison labor camp — yes, you read that right — at Hickman’s Family Farms, a large egg producer.

亚利桑那州决定让这些恐怖更进一步，同意在大型鸡蛋生产商希克曼家庭农场建立监狱劳改营——是的，你没看错。

Hickman’s had long paid for incarcerated individuals to work in its facilities; the workers only got paid after the state took a huge chunk out of their wages.

希克曼长期以来一直为被监禁者在其设施中工作提供报酬。国家从他们的工资中扣除很大一部分后，工人们才得到工资。

“This is groundbreaking,” a driver told a female prisoner as he transferred her to the camp, the first of its kind in Arizona and possibly the country, where she would live and work alongside other incarcerated women while COVID exploded.

“这是开创性的，”一名司机在将一名女囚犯转移到营地时告诉她，这是亚利桑那州乃至全国的第一个此类营地，在新冠病毒爆发期间，她将与其他被监禁的女性一起生活和工作。

“You guys are gonna be a part of history.” Apparently, history included illness, injury, and indignity, as this investigation by Elizabeth Whitman shows — the women whose voices the story elevates were told they were necessary, and treated as if they were disposable.

“你们将成为历史的一部分。”显然，历史包括疾病、伤害和侮辱，正如伊丽莎白·惠特曼的这项调查所显示的那样——故事中那些声音高涨的女性被告知她们是必要的，并被视为可抛弃的。

—SD

—SD

## The Mercy Workers

## 慈悲工作者

Maurice Chammah | The Marshall Project | March 2, 2023 | 7,750 words

莫里斯·查玛 |马歇尔计划 | 2023 年 3 月 2 日 | 7,750 字

When we look at the face of a criminal in a mug shot or in a courtroom, what do we see?

当我们在面部照片或法庭上观察罪犯的脸时，我们看到了什么？

Many adults facing the death penalty have been shaped by childhood trauma or violence they experienced or witnessed in prison as juveniles.

许多面临死刑的成年人都受到童年创伤或青少年时期在监狱中经历或目睹的暴力的影响。

Mitigation specialists work to uncover traumas and dig into the personal and family histories of people on death row — not with the aim to excuse or justify their crimes, but to help paint more complete portraits of them as human beings.

减刑专家致力于揭露死囚的创伤，挖掘他们的个人和家庭历史，目的不是为他们的罪行开脱或辩护，而是帮助描绘出他们作为人的更完整的肖像。

Maurice Chammah spends time with mitigation specialist Sara Baldwin as she works on the case of James Bernard Belcher, a man on death row for the 1996 murder of Jennifer Embry.

莫里斯·查玛 (Maurice Chammah) 与缓解专家萨拉·鲍德温 (Sara Baldwin) 一起处理詹姆斯·伯纳德·贝尔彻 (James Bernard Belcher) 的案件。詹姆斯·伯纳德·贝尔彻 (James Bernard Belcher) 因 1996 年谋杀詹妮弗·恩布里 (Jennifer Embry) 被判死刑。

It’s a complex story that Chammah reports and tells with great care and empathy, and highlights a little-known profession that helps to illuminate why people hurt one another and are led to violence.

这是一个复杂的故事，查玛以极大的关怀和同理心报道和讲述，并强调了一个鲜为人知的职业，有助于阐明为什么人们互相伤害并导致暴力。

—CLR

—CLR

## Police Killed His Son.

## 警察杀死了他的儿子。

Prosecutors Charged the Teen’s Friends With His Murder

检察官指控这名青少年的朋友谋杀

Meg O’Connor | The Appeal & Phoenix New Times | March 14, 2023 | 7,576 words

梅格·奥康纳 |呼吁与凤凰新时代| 2023 年 3 月 14 日 | 7,576 字

It’s been nine years since Laquan McDonald was killed by police in Chicago, shot in the back while walking away.

拉昆·麦克唐纳 (Laquan McDonald) 在芝加哥被警察杀害，并在离开时背部中弹，已经过去九年了。

It’s been seven years since Philando Castile was killed by police in the Minneapolis suburbs, shot while his empty hands were raised during a questionable traffic stop.

菲兰多·卡斯提尔 (Philando Castile) 在明尼阿波利斯郊区被警察开枪射杀，当时他在一次可疑的交通堵塞中举起双手，已经过去七年了。

And it’s been four years since Jacob Harris was killed by police in Phoenix, seconds after he emerged from a car, his back turned.

四年前，雅各布·哈里斯 (Jacob Harris) 在凤凰城被警察杀害，就在他背对着车从车里出来几秒钟后。

You’ve likely heard less about Harris’ death than you have McDonald’s and Castile’s, but Meg O’Connor’s thorough investigation makes clear that you won’t forget it.

你对哈里斯之死的了解可能比对麦当劳和卡斯蒂利亚的了解还要少，但梅格·奥康纳的彻底调查清楚地表明你不会忘记这件事。

The gross miscarriages of justice are plentiful: the circumstances of Harris’ killing and the shifting police statements around it; the money and valuables police took from Harris’ father’s home before informing him his son was dead; the fact that Harris’ friends are currently serving decades-long prison sentences for his death, while the officers who pulled the trigger (and unleashed an attack dog on his prone body) walk free.

严重的误判比比皆是：哈里斯被杀的情况以及警方不断变化的声明；警察在通知哈里斯父亲的儿子死亡之前，从他父亲的家里拿走了钱和贵重物品；事实上，哈里斯的朋友们目前正在因他的死亡而被判数十年的监禁，而扣动扳机（并向他俯卧的身体放出一只攻击犬）的警察却逍遥法外。

We’ve heard far, far too many names like McDonald’s and Castile’s and Harris’ over the past decade, and nothing makes me think we won’t continue to hear many more.

在过去的十年里，我们听过太多太多的名字，比如麦当劳、卡斯蒂利亚和哈里斯，而且我相信我们不会继续听到更多的名字。

That’s what makes this sort of journalism so necessary — not because it can bring these young men back to life, but because it makes brutally clear how unjust their deaths are, and how broken policing is.

这就是这类新闻如此必要的原因——不是因为它能让这些年轻人起死回生，而是因为它残酷地表明了他们的死亡是多么不公正，以及警察工作是多么的失败。

—PR

——公关

## Frog

## 青蛙

Anne Fadiman | Harper’s Magazine | February 10, 2023 | 5,816 words

安妮·法迪曼 |哈珀杂志 | 2023 年 2 月 10 日 | 5,816 字

“There are two kinds of pets — the ones you choose and the ones that happen to you,” Anne Fadiman writes as she considers her family’s various pets, a menagerie that included a goldfish, a hamster, guinea pigs, a dog named Typo, and Bunky, an African clawed frog that the family raised from a tadpole.

“宠物有两种——你选择的宠物和发生在你身上的宠物，”安妮·法迪曼（Anne Fadiman）在思考她家的各种宠物时写道，她的动物园里有一条金鱼、一只仓鼠、几只豚鼠、一只名叫 Typo 的狗，以及一家人用蝌蚪养大的非洲爪蛙 Bunky。

In eulogizing Bunky, who looked “as if a regular frog had been bleached and then put in a panini press,” Fadiman remarks on his noble species, one that helped spawn (ahem) the first widely established pregnancy test, earned a Nobel Prize for a British biologist who used an African clawed frog to clone the first vertebrate, and helped establish that reproduction can be possible in zero gravity after a trip on the space shuttle Endeavor.

法迪曼在颂扬邦基时说，邦基看起来“就像一只普通的青蛙被漂白，然后放入帕尼尼压榨机中”，法迪曼评价了他的高贵物种，这个物种帮助催生了（咳咳）第一个广泛使用的怀孕测试，为一位英国生物学家赢得了诺贝尔奖，他使用非洲爪蛙克隆了第一个脊椎动物，并帮助确定在奋进号航天飞机旅行后可以在零重力下繁殖。

All this, from a pet who was defined by not being a dog: “Bunky was the anti-Typo.

所有这一切，都来自于一只被定义为不是狗的宠物：“Bunky 是反打字错误的。

An unpettable pet.

不可抚摸的宠物。

Cool to the touch.

触感凉爽。

Squishy, but not soft.

软软的，但不软。

Undeniably slimy.

不可否认是粘糊糊的。

Impervious to education.

不受教育影响。

A poor hiking companion.

一个可怜的徒步伙伴。

Not much of a companion at all, really.

真的，根本就不是一个伴侣。

Couldn’t be taken out of his aquarium and placed on a lap.” Fadiman’s piece will make you laugh and make you think more carefully about your role as a pet owner.

无法从他的水族箱中取出并放在腿上。”法迪曼的作品会让你开怀大笑，并让你更仔细地思考你作为宠物主人的角色。

—KS

—KS

## A Scammer Who Tricks Instagram Into Banning Influencers Has Never Been Identified.

## 欺骗 Instagram 禁止影响者的骗子身份尚未确定。

We May Have Found Him.

我们可能已经找到他了。

Craig Silverman and Bianca Fortis | ProPublica | March 26, 2023 | 4,629 words

克雷格·西尔弗曼 (Craig Silverman) 和比安卡·福蒂斯 (Bianca Fortis) | ProPublica | 2023 年 3 月 26 日 | 4,629 字

If you’ve ever lost your Instagram account to a hacker or requested aid from Meta in any way, you understand feeling helpless trying to get a faceless corporation to pay attention.

如果您曾经被黑客丢失了 Instagram 帐户，或者以任何方式向 Meta 请求过帮助，您会理解在试图让一家不知名的公司关注时感到无助。

Egregious tech company irresponsibility and complete disregard aside, where Meta failed, ProPublica may have succeeded in tracking down a man known for hijacking accounts by exploiting security loopholes, then hounding their owners for money.

抛开科技公司令人震惊的不负责任和完全无视，Meta 失败的地方，ProPublica 可能已经成功地追踪到了一个因利用安全漏洞劫持帐户而闻名的人，然后向其所有者勒索金钱。

A scammer known as OBN claims to have made hundreds of thousands of dollars plaguing people who earn a living on Instagram “because their content verges on nudity and pornography, which Instagram and its parent company, Meta, prohibit.” Not only does he shut down lucrative influencer accounts, he antagonizes account owners with taunts and threats.

一名名为 OBN 的诈骗者声称，他通过困扰在 Instagram 上谋生的人们赚取了数十万美元，“因为他们的内容接近裸体和色情内容，而 Instagram 及其母公司 Meta 都禁止这些内容。”他不仅关闭了利润丰厚的影响者账户，还通过嘲讽和威胁来对抗账户所有者。

Meta’s response?

梅塔的回应？

They intend to offer a program that would charge for customer support from a real person, something that most tech companies consider not just the right thing to do, but table stakes for being in tech: “Meta has acknowledged that it needs to invest more in customer support.

他们打算提供一个对真人客户支持收费的计划，大多数科技公司认为这不仅是正确的做法，而且是进入科技行业的赌注：“Meta 已经承认，它需要在客户支持方面投入更多。

In February, founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would offer people the ability to pay for account verification and enhanced support, including ‘access to a real person for common account issues.’” —KS

今年 2 月，创始人马克·扎克伯格宣布 Meta 将为人们提供支付帐户验证费用和增强支持的能力，包括“联系真人解决常见帐户问题”。”——KS

## — April —

## — 四月 —

## Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

## 克拉伦斯·托马斯和亿万富翁

Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, and Alex Mierjeski | ProPublica | April 6, 2023 | 2,936 words

约书亚·卡普兰、贾斯汀·埃利奥特和亚历克斯·米尔耶斯基 | ProPublica | 2023 年 4 月 6 日 | 2,936 字

No matter where you get your news, you’ve likely seen this story sometime in the last 24 hours.

无论您从何处获取新闻，您都可能在过去 24 小时内的某个时间看到过这个故事。

It’s a bombshell investigation that reveals how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has received lavish gifts from a billionaire Republican donor named Harlan Crow, likely in violation of federal law.

这是一项重磅调查，揭示了最高法院法官克拉伦斯·托马斯如何从一位名叫哈兰·克劳的亿万富翁共和党捐赠者那里收到了奢侈礼物，这可能违反了联邦法律。

Said gifts include international cruises on a staffed superyacht, a Bible that once belonged to Frederick Douglass, flights on a private jet, and annual vacations to Crow’s luxury compound in upstate New York.

这些礼物包括乘坐配备人员的超级游艇进行国际航行、一本曾经属于弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的《圣经》、乘坐私人飞机飞行，以及每年前往克罗位于纽约州北部的豪华大院度假。

Anyone with an iota of respect for democracy should be appalled — albeit unsurprised, given everything we already know about Thomas’s associates, including his wife.

任何对民主有一点尊重的人都应该感到震惊——尽管这并不奇怪，因为我们已经了解了托马斯的同事，包括他的妻子。

Read it and rage.

读它并愤怒。

But also read it and admire the craft that went into telling the story.

但也要阅读它并欣赏讲述故事的技巧。

It is rich in detail, yet precise.

它细节丰富，但又精确。

Its tone is finely tuned.

它的音调经过精心调整。

The selection and placement of quotes are [chef’s kiss].

引用的选择和放置是[厨师之吻]。

The writers dole out gobsmacking information throughout the piece, right down to the kicker.

作者们在整篇文章中提供了令人瞠目结舌的信息，一直到踢球者。

This is top-notch reporting and delivery.

这是一流的报告和交付。

A+ all around.

到处都是 A+。

—SD

—SD

## Where the Sidewalk Ends

## 人行道的尽头

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein | Lux | March 3, 2023 | 3,498 words

罗宾·凯撒-沙茨莱因 |勒克斯| 2023 年 3 月 3 日 | 3,498 字

I hate the South, and I love it.

我讨厌南方，却又喜欢南方。

This internal conflict is my inheritance.

这种内心的冲突是我的遗传。

My roots in the region run deep and strong, but I have no illusions about who and what fed them.

我在该地区扎根深厚，根深蒂固，但我对谁和什么养育了他们不抱任何幻想。

“We bury the people we do not care about in the South,” Tressie McMillan Cottom recently wrote for The New York Times.

“我们把我们不关心的人埋葬在南方，”特雷西·麦克米伦·科托姆最近为《纽约时报》写道。

“It is where we have put migrants and poor people and sick people.” As Cottom rightly notes, however, “Americans are never as far from the graves we dig for other people as we hope.” Needless to say, I’m forever grappling with the South and its sins, which lately include two high-profile mass shootings, threats to reproductive rights, two Black men’s ejection from the Tennessee legislature, and Florida circling the policy drain even more than usual.

“这就是我们安置移民、穷人和病人的地方。”然而，正如科托姆正确指出的那样，“美国人离我们为他人挖掘的坟墓从来没有像我们希望的那么远。”不用说，我永远在与南方及其罪恶作斗争，其中包括最近两起备受瞩目的大规模枪击事件、对生殖权利的威胁、两名黑人被田纳西州立法机构驱逐，以及佛罗里达州比平常更多的政策流失。

What a joy, then, to read a story with a different vision of the South.

那么，读一个对南方有不同看法的故事是多么高兴啊。

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein introduces readers to Zac Henson and his band of leftist rednecks who run a mutual aid auto repair shop in Alabama.

罗宾·凯泽-沙茨莱因向读者介绍了扎克·汉森和他的一群左翼乡巴佬，他们在阿拉巴马州经营一家互助汽车修理店。

“The organizers,” Kaiser-Schatzlein writes, “believe that people in the South, conservatives especially, just need to be given the chance to operate in institutions that harness their most altruistic, communal, and caring tendencies — or, as Henson describes it, ‘positive reinforcement to not be fascist.’” I too want to believe this.

凯撒-沙茨莱因写道：“组织者认为，南方人民，尤其是保守派，只需要有机会在能够利用他们最无私、公共和关爱倾向的机构中运作——或者，正如汉森所描述的那样，‘积极强化，避免成为法西斯分子。’”我也愿意相信这一点。

Here’s to hope.

这是希望。

—SD

—SD

## Adrift

## 漂流

Renata Brito and Felipe Dana | The Associated Press | April 12, 2023 | 4,355 words

雷娜塔·布里托 (Renata Brito) 和费利佩·达纳 (Felipe Dana)美联社 | 2023 年 4 月 12 日 | 4,355 字

People call them “ghost boats,” the small vessels — at least seven in 2021 alone — that have washed up in the Caribbean and Brazil carrying dead bodies.

人们称它们为“幽灵船”，这些小船——仅 2021 年就至少有七艘——载着尸体被冲到加勒比海和巴西。

The boats come from West Africa carrying desperate people bound for Europe via the Canary Islands, a complex, treacherous route.

这些船只来自西非，载着绝望的人们，途经加那利群岛前往欧洲，这是一条复杂而危险的路线。

Somehow, somewhere the boats were forced off course and drifted out into the Atlantic, all but ensuring the deaths of the people on board.

不知何故，船只在某个地方被迫偏离航线并漂入大西洋，几乎导致了船上人员的死亡。

But who are those people?

但那些人是谁？

What are their stories?

他们有什么故事？

Who back home is missing them?

回到家的谁想念他们？

This years-long investigation uses a handful of clues — a SIM card and scraps of clothing, for instance — to identify the dead found in one ghost boat in Tobago.

这项长达数年的调查利用了一些线索——例如一张 SIM 卡和衣服碎片——来识别在多巴哥一艘鬼船上发现的死者的身份。

Renata Brito and Felipe Dana do an impressive job situating a sensitive story about the impacts of global policies and politics within the framework of a mystery.

雷娜塔·布里托 (Renata Brito) 和费利佩·达纳 (Felipe Dana) 出色地把一个关于全球政策和政治影响的敏感故事置于一个谜团的框架内。

A moving feature, and beautifully designed too.

一个动人的功能，而且设计也很精美。

—SD

—SD

## How the War in Ukraine Has Forever Changed the Children in One Kindergarten Class

## 乌克兰战争如何永远改变了幼儿园班级的孩子们

Elissa Nadworny, Claire Harbage | NPR | April 12, 2023 | 4,700 words

艾丽莎·纳德沃尼、克莱尔·哈巴奇美国国家公共广播电台 | 2023 年 4 月 12 日 | 4,700 字

This piece takes war down to the micro level, the story of a conflict told not through politics or death tolls but through the fate of one class of kindergarten children.

这部作品将战争深入到微观层面，冲突的故事不是通过政治或死亡人数来讲述，而是通过一班幼儿园孩子的命运来讲述。

It makes for a blisteringly relatable read.

它让人读起来非常有共鸣。

Elissa Nadworny and Claire Harbage have carried out meticulous reporting, meeting several children and their families from a classroom in Kharkiv with “bright yellow and green walls and long, gauzy curtains.” (Such attentive details are sprinkled throughout.) Some children remain in Ukraine, but more than half have fled around the world, separated by thousands of miles.

艾丽莎·纳德沃尼 (Elissa Nadworny) 和克莱尔·哈巴奇 (Claire Harbage) 进行了细致的报道，在哈尔科夫的一间教室里会见了几名孩子及其家人，教室里有“明亮的黄色和绿色墙壁以及长长的薄纱窗帘”。 （这种细心的细节随处可见。）一些儿童仍然留在乌克兰，但一半以上已经逃往世界各地，相隔数千英里。

Some are struggling with new languages.

有些人正在努力学习新语言。

Some can’t sleep.

有些人睡不着。

Some are still scared.

有些人仍然感到害怕。

They all miss each other.

他们都互相想念。

Beautiful photographs and snippets from their group chats help to bring their new realities to life.

群聊中的精美照片和片段有助于将他们的新现实变为现实。

A small war story but a powerful one: These few children represent so many.

这是一个小小的战争故事，但却是一个震撼人心的故事：这几个孩子代表了很多人。

—CW

—CW

## — May —

## — 五月 —

## A Trucker’s Kidnapping, a Suspicious Ransom, and a Colorado Family’s Perilous Quest for Justice

## 卡车司机的绑架、可疑的赎金以及科罗拉多州家庭危险的正义追求

Chris Walker | 5280 | May 2, 2023 | 5,292 words

克里斯·沃克 | 5280| 2023 年 5 月 2 日 | 5,292 字

Through a special visa program, transmigrantes are able to drive goods and vehicles from the U.S. to Central America via Mexico, without paying for high import and export fees.

通过特殊签证计划，移民可以将货物和车辆从美国经墨西哥运往中美洲，而无需支付高额进出口费用。

These truckers, many originally from Central America, are able to connect with their home countries through this line of work, while the industry as a whole transforms America’s excess items into valuable goods abroad.

这些卡车司机很多来自中美洲，他们能够通过这一工作与自己的祖国建立联系，而整个行业则将美国的过剩物品转化为国外的有价值的商品。

In 2014, one trucker, Guatemalan-born Enrique Orlando León, took a contract job from a Colorado employer to deliver a truck, apparently full of furniture, to his homeland.

2014 年，出生于危地马拉的卡车司机恩里克·奥兰多·莱昂 (Enrique Orlando León) 从科罗拉多州雇主那里获得了一份合同工作，负责将一辆显然装满家具的卡车运送到他的祖国。

It was a journey he’d taken many times before, but this time, it all went horribly wrong.

这是他以前多次走过的旅程，但这一次，一切都出了严重的问题。

Chris Walker recounts the kidnapping, explores the unknowns around Orlando’s capture that still plague him, and describes how this terrifying ordeal has affected his entire family.

克里斯·沃克讲述了绑架事件，探索了奥兰多被俘事件中至今仍困扰着他的未知因素，并描述了这场可怕的磨难如何影响了他的整个家庭。

Through this one man’s story, Walker exposes a dark side of the transmigrante industry.

通过这个人的故事，沃克揭露了移民行业的阴暗面。

—CLR

—CLR

## Amor Eterno

## 永恒之爱

Skip Hollandsworth | Texas Monthly | May 8, 2023 | 7,580 words

跳过霍兰兹沃斯 |德克萨斯月刊| 2023 年 5 月 8 日 | 7,580 字

Years from now, when I think about this story — which will happen, because it’s that good — I will hear, no, feel the pounding of feet.

多年后，当我想起这个故事时——这将会发生，因为它太好了——我会听到，不，感觉到脚步声。

Skip Hollandsworth’s profile of Kimberly Mata-Rubio opens with the subject jogging through Uvalde, Texas, pausing at a mural of her daughter, Lexi.

斯基普·霍兰斯沃斯 (Skip Hollandsworth) 对金伯利·玛塔·卢比奥 (Kimberly Mata-Rubio) 的简介开头是，主角在德克萨斯州尤瓦尔迪 (Uvalde) 慢跑，在她女儿莱克西 (Lexi) 的壁画前停下来。

The scene echoes the moment when, immediately after learning that there had been a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, Mata-Rubio began to run, barefoot over asphalt and through traffic, toward the building where her daughter was in the fourth grade, only to learn that Lexi was dead.

这一场景与当时的情景相呼应：得知罗布小学发生大规模枪击事件后，玛塔-卢比奥立即赤脚跑过柏油路，穿过车流，奔向女儿四年级所在的大楼，却发现莱克西已经死了。

“Kim could feel her feet throbbing,” Hollandsworth writes.

“金可以感觉到她的脚在抽动，”霍兰斯沃斯写道。

“They were so bloodied and bruised she could barely walk.” A year after the massacre, the jog past Lexi’s mural is one of several ritual motions Mata-Rubio has adopted.

“他们血迹斑斑，伤痕累累，她几乎无法行走。”大屠杀一年后，慢跑经过莱西的壁画是马塔-卢比奥采取的几个仪式动作之一。

She also goes to her daughter’s grave once, sometimes twice a day, never leaving Lexi alone for more than 24 hours, and regularly drives to the state Capitol to lobby for gun control.

她还会去女儿的坟墓一次，有时一天两次，从来不会让莱克西独自呆超过 24 小时，并定期开车前往州议会大厦游说枪支管制。

Mural, grave, Austin: Mata-Rubio goes and returns, again and again, like the tide.

壁画，坟墓，奥斯汀：马塔-卢比奥像潮水一样一次又一次地去又回来。

Other Uvalde parents do the same.

尤瓦尔德的其他家长也这样做。

Their patterns, like those of so many people who have lost loved ones in mass shootings, remind me of a Robert Frost poem: “The heart can think of no devotion / Greater than being shore to ocean / Holding the curve of one position / Counting an endless repetition.” How many more parents, children, spouses, friends will join this grieving army in their aching, unspeakable form of love?

他们的模式，就像许多在大规模枪击事件中失去亲人的人一样，让我想起罗伯特·弗罗斯特的一首诗：“心不能想到任何奉献/比海岸到海洋更伟大/保持一个位置的曲线/计数无尽的重复。”还有多少父母、孩子、配偶、朋友会加入这支悲伤的大军，带着他们痛苦的、难以言喻的爱？

Will you be one of them?

你会成为他们中的一员吗？

Will I?

我会吗？

—SD

—SD

## Reclaiming a North Carolina Plantation

## 收复北卡罗来纳州种植园

Cynthia R.

辛西娅·R。

Greenlee | Garden & Gun | April 24, 2023 | 3,050 words

格林利 |花园和枪 | 2023 年 4 月 24 日 | 3,050 字

I went to college in North Carolina, where I took a history-meets-writing seminar about Stagville, a former slave plantation near campus.

我在北卡罗来纳州上大学，在那里我参加了一个关于斯塔维尔的历史与写作研讨会，斯塔维尔是校园附近的一个前奴隶种植园。

By trawling through historical documents and walking the site, I learned how a 30,000-acre operation was made possible (and profitable) by the labor of roughly 900 Black people held in bondage.

通过查阅历史文献和实地走访，我了解了大约 900 名被奴役的黑人的劳动如何使占地 30,000 英亩的行动成为可能（并盈利）。

Stagville is now maintained by the state; it never occurred to me as a student that the land might be used for anything other than studying and honoring the past.

斯塔格维尔现在由国家维护；作为一名学生，我从未想过这片土地除了学习和纪念过去之外还可以用于其他用途。

As this story in Garden & Gun shows, there is another way to approach land once tended by slaves, one that can provide for local communities, now and in the future.

正如《花园与枪》中的这个故事所表明的那样，还有另一种方式来处理曾经由奴隶照管的土地，一种可以为当地社区现在和将来提供食物的方式。

Two remarkable sisters have been transforming Snow Hill, a former plantation not far from Stagville, into an incubator for gardeners and small farmers.

两个杰出的姐妹正在将距离斯塔维尔不远的前种植园雪山 (Snow Hill) 改造成园丁和小农的孵化器。

They are promoting sustainability and battling food insecurity while at the same time promoting land access to populations long denied it.

他们正在促进可持续发展并应对粮食不安全问题，同时促进长期无法获得土地的人们获得土地。

The sisters currently lease the land, but as Cynthia R.

姐妹俩目前租赁土地，但作为 Cynthia R.

Greenlee explains, “using a conservation easement, which restricts development rights and lowers property values,” they plan to buy the acreage, likely worth millions, for just $37,000.

格林利解释说，“利用保护地役权，限制了开发权并降低了房产价值”，他们计划以 37,000 美元的价格购买这片可能价值数百万美元的土地。

“Land isn’t just a source of the compounded traumas of slavery, sharecropping, migration, and food insecurity for Black Americans,” Greenlee writes.

“对于美国黑人来说，土地不仅仅是奴隶制、佃农、移民和粮食不安全造成的复合创伤的根源，”格林利写道。

“It’s also a wellspring of pride, knowledge, economic power, and spiritual connection.” —SD

“它也是自豪感、知识、经济实力和精神联系的源泉。” —SD

## The True Cost of Tuna: Marine Observers Dying at Sea

## 金枪鱼的真正代价：海洋观察员死于海上

Lee van der Voo | Civil Eats | May 23, 2023 | 5,262 words

李·范德武 | Lee van der Voo民用饮食| 2023 年 5 月 23 日 | 5,262 字

Marine observers collect data about the fish caught at sea and monitor the practices of crews aboard commercial fishing vessels.

海洋观察员收集有关海上捕获的鱼类的数据，并监测商业渔船上船员的做法。

They are the eyes and ears on the water: the people that ensure safe and responsible fishing.

他们是水上的眼睛和耳朵：确保安全和负责任的捕鱼的人。

But the canned tuna you eat may not be as safely caught as you think.

但你吃的金枪鱼罐头可能并不像你想象的那么安全。

As Lee van der Voo reports in this excellent investigation, the people tasked with upholding sustainable seafood standards face dangerous situations.

正如 Lee van der Voo 在这项出色的调查中所报道的那样，负责维护可持续海鲜标准的人们面临着危险的处境。

Many of them, like Fijian observer Simi Cagilaba, experience harassment and abuse, while others have disappeared or been murdered at sea.

他们中的许多人，如斐济观察员西米·卡吉拉巴（Simi Cagilaba），都遭受过骚扰和虐待，而其他人则失踪或在海上被谋杀。

Stronger safety measures, action from major retailers to push for better practices, and more robust technology to track illegal activities would help to improve observers’ work conditions.

更强有力的安全措施、主要零售商采取行动推动更好的做法以及更强大的技术来追踪非法活动将有助于改善观察员的工作条件。

Van der Voo exposes the dark underbelly of Big Tuna, and will make you think twice about the origins of those tins of tuna in your pantry.

范德沃揭露了大金枪鱼的黑暗弱点，会让你重新思考储藏室里那些金枪鱼罐头的起源。

—CLR

—CLR

## — June —

## — 六月 —

## Have Assisted Dying Laws Gone Too Far?

## 协助死亡法是否太过分了？

Meagan Gillmore | The Walrus | May 30, 2023 | 5,422 words

梅根吉尔莫 |海象| 2023 年 5 月 30 日 | 5,422 字

What does it say about a country where it’s easier to request medically assisted death than it is to get support for a disability?

对于一个请求医疗协助死亡比获得残疾支持更容易的国家来说，这意味着什么？

Tarra Carlson lives with autism and ADHD.

塔拉·卡尔森患有自闭症和多动症。

Her provincial disability benefits ceased because her husband earns too much money.

由于她丈夫挣的钱太多，她的省级残疾福利终止了。

She receives about $800 CDN per month from the Canada Pension Plan.

她每月从加拿大养老金计划中领取约 800 加元。

“If her husband dies before her, she may have no way to access financial support,” writes Meagan Gillmore for The Walrus.

“如果她的丈夫先于她去世，她可能无法获得经济支持，”梅根·吉尔莫尔在《海象》杂志上写道。

“She’ll lose her biggest advocate and support system—and her home.” We already know that Canada has explored expanding the Medical Assistance in Death (MAiD) program to include those with disabilities, angering disability advocates.

“她将失去她最大的拥护者和支持系统，以及她的家。”我们已经知道，加拿大已探索扩大死亡医疗援助 (MAiD) 计划以将残疾人纳入其中，这激怒了残疾倡导者。

Gillmore’s terrifying piece reveals that some with disabilities facing poverty from the margins of Canadian society may choose MAiD, failed by a crumbling and byzantine Canadian health care system.

吉尔莫尔的可怕文章揭示了一些在加拿大社会边缘面临贫困的残疾人可能会选择 MAiD，但加拿大医疗保健系统的崩溃和错综复杂导致他们失败了。

For the government of Canada, what started as a program to allow the terminally ill to die on their own terms is starting to become a way for the government to legally rid itself of those they have failed: their most vulnerable citizens.

对于加拿大政府来说，最初是一项允许绝症患者按照自己的方式死亡的计划，现在开始成为政府合法摆脱那些他们失败的人的一种方式：他们最脆弱的公民。

—KS

—KS

## What Happened to Heather Mayer?

## 希瑟·梅尔发生了什么事？

Andy Mannix | The Star Tribune | June 2, 2023 | 10,330 words

安迪·曼尼克斯 |明星论坛报 | 2023 年 6 月 2 日 | 10,330 字

This investigative feature comes with a warning at the top to “read at your own discretion,” and I feel obliged to say the same thing here.

这个调查功能在顶部有一个警告“请自行判断阅读”，我觉得有必要在这里说同样的话。

What follows is a deeply upsetting story about the suspicious death of a woman who was part of the BDSM community in the Minneapolis area.

接下来是一个令人深感不安的故事，讲述了一名明尼阿波利斯地区 BDSM 社区成员的女性可疑死亡的故事。

Heather Mayer was found naked, hanging by a chain that had been locked around her neck; she was covered in bruises and scars, with the words “Daddy Knows Best” carved into her arm.

希瑟·梅耶被发现赤身裸体，脖子上挂着一条锁链。她浑身是伤痕累累，手臂上刻着“爸爸最了解”的字样。

Police ruled her death a suicide, but that never sat right with the death investigator on the case or with Mayer’s mother, who was immediately suspicious that her daughter had been killed by Ehsan Karam, a “dominant” with whom she was in a relationship.

警方判定她的死亡为自杀，但这一点与该案的死亡调查员和梅耶尔的母亲都不一致，梅耶尔的母亲立即怀疑她的女儿是被与她有关系的“统治者”埃桑·卡拉姆杀害的。

Reporter Andy Mannix does a brilliant, sensitive job interrogating the lines between sex and violence, pleasure and pain, consent and coercion.

记者安迪·曼尼克斯（Andy Mannix）出色而敏感地探讨了性与暴力、快乐与痛苦、同意与强迫之间的界限。

There’s no judgment here, except of the dangerous assumptions many people (including members of law enforcement) make about BDSM practitioners—and of men like Karam, who crossed lines willfully and often, at the physical and emotional expense of their partners.

这里没有任何判断，除了许多人（包括执法人员）对 BDSM 实践者以及像卡拉姆这样的男人做出的危险假设，他们经常故意越界，以牺牲伴侣的身体和情感为代价。

—SD

—SD

## Lady Vols Country

## 沃尔斯夫人乡村

Jessica Wilkerson | Oxford American | June 6, 2023 | 3,644 words

杰西卡·威尔克森 |牛津美国 | 2023 年 6 月 6 日 | 3,644 字

I don’t just love that Jessica Wilkerson* takes on tough topics in her work, including racism, feminism, and outdated female gender roles; I love how she does it.

我不仅喜欢杰西卡·威尔克森*在她的作品中探讨尖锐的话题，包括种族主义、女权主义和过时的女性性别角色；我还喜欢杰西卡·威尔克森*在她的作品中探讨尖锐的话题，包括种族主义、女权主义和过时的女性性别角色。我喜欢她的做法。

In her writing, she gets comfortable with being uncomfortable, which allows her to go deep, probe difficult questions, and most importantly, come to some sort of (sometimes uneasy) understanding of what it means to live in a world that’s flawed.

在她的写作中，她习惯于不舒服，这让她能够深入探讨困难的问题，最重要的是，对生活在一个有缺陷的世界意味着什么有了某种（有时是不安的）理解。

This is one of the great gifts of powerful writing.

这是强有力的写作的伟大天赋之一。

In “Lady Vols Country,” Wilkerson examines outdated southern gender roles through portraits of two women who were very important to her: her grandmother and Pat Summitt, the former head coach of the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers basketball team.

在《沃尔斯乡村女士》中，威尔克森通过对她非常重要的两名女性的肖像审视了过时的南方性别角色：她的祖母和田纳西大学女子志愿者篮球队前主教练帕特·萨米特。

In remembering two strong women and the change they stood for, Wilkerson finds the permission she didn’t know she was looking for—to be true to the life she wants for herself.

在回忆两位坚强的女性和她们所代表的改变时，威尔克森发现了她不知道自己在寻找的许可——忠于她想要的生活。

—KS

—KS

## Everyone in Stephenville Thought They Knew Who Killed Susan Woods

## 斯蒂芬维尔的每个人都认为他们知道谁杀了苏珊·伍兹

Bryan Burrough | Texas Monthly | June 20, 2023 | 15,736 words

布莱恩·巴勒 |德克萨斯月刊| 2023 年 6 月 20 日 | 15,736 字

Looking back over the past couple of years, I realize I don’t often recommend true-crime investigations.

回顾过去几年，我意识到我并不经常推荐真实犯罪调查。

Make no mistake: I like a killer-on-the-loose podcast or docuseries as much as the next media omnivore, but the explosion of the genre has sent a lot of true-crime writing into that uncanny valley of journalism that I internally call Please Option This Story and Make Me Rich, Hollywood.

毫无疑问：我就像喜欢下一个媒体杂食者一样喜欢逍遥杀手的播客或纪录片系列，但这种类型的爆炸式增长已经将大量真实犯罪写作带入了新闻业的恐怖谷，我内部称之为“请选择这个故事并让我变得富有，好莱坞”。

All that said, Bryan Burrough’s lengthy cover story for Texas Monthly falls into no such traps.

话虽如此，布莱恩·伯勒（Bryan Burrough）为《德克萨斯月刊》撰写的冗长封面故事却没有落入这样的陷阱。

It’s a curveball that you know is a curveball, yet still dips and weaves and otherwise stymies your expectations.

这是一个你知道是一个曲线球的曲线球，但仍然会倾斜和编织，否则会阻碍你的期望。

There’s not much I can say by way of synopsis that distills more or reveals less than the story’s headline, so I’ll leave it there; however, know that part of the piece’s excellence lies in its reserve.

我没有什么可以通过概要说的比故事标题更多或揭示的内容更少的了，所以我将其留在那里；然而，要知道该作品的部分卓越之处在于它的保留。

Another writer might have made Susan Woods’ murder more lurid.

另一位作家可能会让苏珊·伍兹的谋杀案变得更加耸人听闻。

Another magazine might have tried to tell the tale in half the length, robbing the characters of their depth.

另一本杂志可能会试图用一半的篇幅来讲述这个故事，从而剥夺了人物的深度。

And another form—like the aforementioned podcast or docuseries—might have overweighted the narrative with ominous music cues or hacky video transitions.

而另一种形式——比如前面提到的播客或系列纪录片——可能会用不祥的音乐暗示或老套的视频过渡来加重叙事。

(Don’t worry: the story also exists as a podcast.) Instead, you get what true-crime journalism can and should be: unsparing, revelatory, and human.

（别担心：这个故事也以播客的形式存在。）相反，你会得到真实犯罪新闻可以而且应该成为的东西：无情、揭露性和人性化。

A monster’s death doesn’t undo the damage they inflicted, but Burrough’s reporting manages to wring a measure of redemption from the unseemly proceedings.

怪物的死亡并不能消除他们造成的伤害，但伯勒的报道设法从不恰当的程序中获得一定程度的救赎。

—PR

——公关

## The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

## 1700 万份珍贵的军事记录化为灰烬的那一夜

Megan Greenwell | Wired | June 27, 2023 | 7,987 words

梅根·格林威尔 |有线| 2023 年 6 月 27 日 | 7,987 字

Megan Greenwell’s piece does what the best longform features do: It mesmerizes you with an opening so powerful and a story so compelling that you deliberately read it slowly, just to make it last.

梅根·格林威尔的作品达到了最好的长篇故事片的效果：它以如此有力的开场和如此引人入胜的故事让你着迷，你会故意慢慢地阅读它，只是为了让它持久。

This piece—about a devastating fire at a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration that happened to contain records belonging to Greenwell’s grandfather—is nearly 8,000 words long, but the prose is so sharp and cinematic that you’ll wish it was longer.

这篇文章讲述了国家档案和记录管理局一个分支机构发生的一场毁灭性火灾，而该分支机构恰好包含格林威尔祖父的记录。这篇文章有近 8,000 字长，但散文如此尖锐和电影化，以至于你会希望它更长一些。

“The National Personnel Records Center fire burned out of control for two days before firefighters were able to begin putting it out,” she writes.

“国家人事记录中心的大火失控了两天，然后消防员才开始扑灭大火，”她写道。

“Photos show the roof ablaze, a nearly 5-acre field of flame.

“照片显示屋顶着火，火场面积近5英亩。

The steel beams that had once held up the glass walls jut at unnatural angles, like so many broken legs.” Even were it not set against a backdrop of the U.S. government, this would be a fascinating mystery: What or who started the fire and how do workers attempt to uncover precious facts from seriously damaged files?

曾经支撑玻璃墙的钢梁以不自然的角度突出，就像许多断腿一样。”即使不是以美国政府为背景，这也将是一个令人着迷的谜团：什么人或谁引发了火灾，工人们如何试图从严重受损的文件中发现宝贵的事实？

Did Greenwell’s grandfather’s records survive the blaze?

格林威尔祖父的记录在大火中幸存下来了吗？

Be sure to take it slow and let this story smolder.

一定要慢慢来，让这个故事慢慢发酵。

I’m certainly glad I did.

我当然很高兴我这么做了。

—KS

—KS

## — July —

## — 七月 —

## They Followed Doctors’ Orders.

## 他们遵循医生的指示。

Then Their Children Were Taken Away.

然后他们的孩子被带走了。

Shoshana Walter | The New York Times Magazine and Reveal | June 29, 2023 | 7,167 words

肖莎娜·沃尔特 |纽约时报杂志和揭露 | 2023 年 6 月 29 日 | 7,167 字

I’m not sure that there’s anything more American than making it difficult for a person to be a mother.

我不确定还有什么比让一个人很难成为母亲更美国化的事情了。

I don’t mean physically giving birth—thanks to anti-abortion zealots and the Supreme Court, many states are now literally forcing people to do that, with horrific consequences.

我指的不是身体上的分娩——多亏了反堕胎狂热者和最高法院，许多州现在确实强迫人们这样做，带来了可怕的后果。

I mean being a person, with everything that alone entails in a country defined by inequality, precarity, and prejudice, who also has a child.

我的意思是，作为一个人，拥有在一个充满不平等、不稳定和偏见的国家所需要的一切，而且还有一个孩子。

Exhibit A: As Shoshana Walter found in a feat of investigative reporting, people swept up in the opioid crisis, who’ve done exactly what they’re supposed to do—who got clean and take prescription drugs to stay that way—are now having their babies seized by the government.

证据A：正如肖莎娜·沃尔特（Shoshana Walter）在一项调查报道中发现的那样，那些卷入阿片类药物危机的人们，他们完全做了他们应该做的事情——他们戒毒并服用处方药来保持这种状态——现在他们的孩子却被政府扣押。

“They don’t want you on illicit street drugs,” one of Walter’s subjects says, “so here, we’re going to give you this medicine.

“他们不想让你吸食非法街头毒品，”沃尔特的一位受试者说，“所以在这里，我们会给你这种药。

But then if you take this medicine, we are going to punish you for it and ruin your family.” The injustice doesn’t end there.

但如果你吃了这个药，我们就会惩罚你，毁了你的家庭。”不公正现象还不止于此。

“We also found women who were reported after taking antidepressants, anxiety and ADHD medications and even over-the-counter cold medicine during pregnancies,” Walter writes.

沃尔特写道：“我们还发现一些女性在怀孕期间服用了抗抑郁药、焦虑症和多动症药物，甚至服用了非处方感冒药。”

“Some women were reported after testing positive for the fentanyl in their epidurals.” The emphasis is mine; my jaw dropped at the Helleresque insanity of that detail.

“据报道，一些女性在硬膜外麻醉中检测出芬太尼呈阳性。”重点是我的；这个细节的希腊式疯狂让我下巴都掉下来了。

—SD

—SD

## A Good Prospect

## 良好的前景

Nick Bowlin | The Drift | July 9, 2023 | 7,602 words

尼克·鲍林 |漂移| 2023 年 7 月 9 日 | 7,602 字

The mining sector is having a moment.

采矿业正迎来一段时期。

Due to people’s growing—if absurdly belated—concern about climate change, demand for alternative materials that can power the future is skyrocketing.

由于人们对气候变化的日益增长（尽管有些迟来的担忧），对为未来提供动力的替代材料的需求正在飙升。

We’re talking lithium, cobalt, and copper, the stuff needed to build electric-vehicle batteries, solar panels, and other items that are likely to be staples of a decarbonized economy.

我们谈论的是锂​​、钴和铜，这些材料是制造电动汽车电池、太阳能电池板和其他可能成为脱碳经济主要产品的材料。

It’s no surprise, then, that mining interests are talking a big game about being on the right side of environmental history.

因此，矿业利益集团正在大肆讨论如何站在环境历史的正确一边，也就不足为奇了。

Journalist Nick Bowlin heard it loud and clear while reporting on the world’s largest mining conference, which was held earlier this year in Toronto, Ontario.

记者尼克·鲍林（Nick Bowlin）在报道今年早些时候在安大略省多伦多举行的世界最大矿业会议时，清楚地听到了这句话。

As Bowlin smartly details, in a story that never once gets boring despite being about—let me repeat—a mining conference, there’s an ugly underbelly to this touting of green bona fides.

正如鲍林巧妙地详细描述的那样，在一个尽管是关于（让我重复一遍）采矿会议的故事中，却从未变得无聊，这种对绿色真诚的吹捧有一个丑陋的弱点。

Extractive industries are notoriously and unrelentingly colonialist, and above all they’re eager for profit.

采掘业是出了名的、无情的殖民主义，最重要的是它们渴望利润。

They will strip land, exploit people, and smile as their rampant devastation earns them billions.

他们会掠夺土地，剥削人民，并微笑着为他们的猖獗破坏赚取数十亿美元。

If the mining sector were really serious about a green future, it would drop its maximalist mindset.

如果采矿业真的认真对待绿色未来，它就会放弃其极端主义心态。

Indeed, we all would.

确实，我们都会。

“The mining industry,” Bowlin writes, “benefits from the self-satisfied consumerism of the E.V.

鲍林写道：“采矿业受益于 E.V. 的自满消费主义。

buyer.

买家。

For all of its disdain for environmentalists, the industry needs green consumers who seek absolution for their carbon-intensive ways of life.

尽管该行业对环保主义者不屑一顾，但它需要绿色消费者为他们的碳密集型生活方式寻求宽恕。

With their complacent inattention to the injustices inflicted by the green economy, these consumers not only fund the industry’s expansion but give it moral cover.” —SD

由于对绿色经济造成的不公正现象漠不关心，这些消费者不仅为该行业的扩张提供资金，而且为其提供道德掩护。” —SD

## The Balkans’ Alternative Postal System: An Ad-Hoc Courier’s Tale

## 巴尔干半岛的替代邮政系统：临时快递员的故事

Ilir Gashi | The Guardian & Kosovo 2.0 | July 13, 2023 | 4,061 words

伊利尔·加什 | 《卫报》和科索沃 2.0 | 2023 年 7 月 13 日 | 4,061 字

In 2012, I lived in Pristina, Kosovo for a few months.

2012年，我在科索沃普里什蒂纳住了几个月。

Much to the chagrin of my mother, I couldn’t receive mail at my apartment.

令我母亲非常懊恼的是，我无法在公寓收到邮件。

I had no postal box or number; as far as I could tell, no one in the brutalist residential complex did.

我没有邮箱或电话号码；据我所知，野兽派住宅区里没有人这么做。

I informed my mom, who wouldn’t take “no address” for an answer, that she should send mail to the nearby NATO base; I had met someone posted there who offered to serve as a middleman.

我告诉我妈妈，她应该把邮件寄到附近的北约基地，她不会接受“没有地址”的答案。我遇到了一个在那里任职的人，他愿意担任中间人。

(Thanks again, Drew.) I had the privilege of being an American with a connection to a powerful institution.

（再次感谢，德鲁。）我有幸成为一名与强大机构有联系的美国人。

Still, I did what many people in the Balkans do when they need to get something from point A to point B: I asked a friend.

尽管如此，我还是做了很多巴尔干地区的人在需要从 A 点到 B 点获取某些东西时所做的事情：我问了一位朋友。

Ilir Gashi’s essay—a runner-up for a European Press Prize—details how informal networks that move packages, letters, and passengers have developed in response to the Balkans’ disputed borders and entrenched poverty.

伊利尔·加什 (Ilir Gashi) 的文章（欧洲新闻奖亚军）详细介绍了运送包裹、信件和乘客的非正式网络是如何发展起来的，以应对巴尔干地区的边界争议和根深蒂固的贫困。

Gashi worked as an ad-hoc courier, delivering medicine, documents, homemade food items, and even a doll, which a little girl on a trip to Belgrade left behind when her family returned to Pristina.

加什是一名临时快递员，负责运送药品、文件、自制食品，甚至还有一个洋娃娃，这是一个去贝尔格莱德旅行的小女孩在家人返回普里什蒂纳时留下的。

“While the weather map on Radio Television of Serbia shows Pristina as part of Serbia,” Gashi writes, “as far as the Serbian postal service is concerned, this city doesn’t exist, just like other places in Kosovo where Serbs aren’t the majority.

加什写道：“虽然塞尔维亚广播电视台的气象图显示普里什蒂纳是塞尔维亚的一部分，但就塞尔维亚邮政服务而言，这座城市并不存在，就像科索沃其他塞族人不占多数的地方一样。

Private delivery services are way too expensive.

私人送货服务太贵了。

The only way the doll could reach Pristina was for somebody to take it with them.” This is a beautiful story of everyday resilience.

娃娃到达普里什蒂纳的唯一方法就是有人把它带走。”这是一个关于日常韧性的美丽故事。

—SD

—SD

## We Are All Animals at Night

## 我们都是夜晚的动物

Lana Hall | Hazlitt | July 12, 2023 | 3,210 words

拉娜·霍尔 |黑兹利特 | 2023 年 7 月 12 日 | 3,210 字

As a sex worker in a Toronto massage parlor, Lana Hall earned her living from 2 p.m.

拉娜·霍尔 (Lana Hall) 是多伦多一家按摩院的性工作者，从下午 2 点到凌晨 2 点谋生。

to 2 a.m., three to six shifts per week.

到凌晨 2 点，每周三到六班。

In preparing for a particularly repellant final customer one night, Hall is humbled, not by the man she must shower with, but by the kindness of a fellow worker who curls her hair before the dreaded appointment.

一天晚上，在为一位特别令人厌恶的最终顾客做准备时，霍尔感到谦卑，不是因为她必须和她一起洗澡的那个男人，而是因为一位在可怕的约会之前为她卷发的同事的善意。

Reader, this small gift cut me so deeply that I found myself stifling sobs.

读者们，这个小礼物深深地刺痛了我，我发现自己强忍着抽泣。

“I felt so much care in that moment I could barely breathe,” Hall writes, “and it occurred to me that I’d never had a woman, before or since, handle my hair so tenderly.” As Hall recounts how the powerful, and society in general, look down on people with “low skill” jobs, she deftly reminds us that those who must work the wee hours serving the “incessant hungers of others” are often the most adept at conflict deflection and resolution—ironically the skills so often highly prized by those who work in sunlit ivory towers.

“那一刻我感到如此的关心，我几乎无法呼吸，”霍尔写道，“我突然意识到，无论是之前还是之后，我从未有过一个女人如此温柔地抚摸我的头发。”当霍尔讲述当权者和整个社会如何看不起从事“低技能”工作的人时，她巧妙地提醒我们，那些必须在凌晨工作以满足“他人不断的饥饿”的人往往是最善于转移和解决冲突的人——讽刺的是，这些技能往往受到那些在阳光明媚的象牙塔里工作的人的高度重视。

Hall imparts with grace and nuance that the humanity on offer from those in low vs. high skill occupations is often as stark as night and day.

霍尔优雅而细致地指出，低技能职业与高技能职业所提供的人性往往像白天和黑夜一样赤裸裸。

—KS

—KS

## — August —

## — 八月 —

## Ahead of Time

## 提前

Kamran Javadizadeh | The Yale Review | June 12, 2023 | 3,285 words

卡姆兰·贾瓦迪扎德 |耶鲁评论| 2023 年 6 月 12 日 | 3,285 字

Writer Kamran Javadizadeh’s sister, Bita, died a slow, agonizing death from cancer.

作家卡姆兰·贾瓦迪扎德 (Kamran Javadizadeh) 的妹妹比塔 (Bita) 因癌症缓慢而痛苦地去世。

Here, he writes about losing her through the lens of poetry he encountered during the experience: a volume of Langston Hughes he located in their shared childhood bedroom; a copy of The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds, filled with Bita’s notes from her reading of it in college; a Hafez verse that Bita herself texted to him one day.

在这里，他通过他在这段经历中遇到的诗歌的镜头来写下失去她的经历：他在他们童年共用的卧室里找到了一本兰斯顿·休斯的书；一本莎朗·奥兹的《死者与生者》，里面有比塔在大学时读到的笔记；有一天，比塔亲自给他发了一首哈菲兹的诗。

I adored this essay, a mix of personal history and literary analysis, and I also found it achingly familiar.

我很喜欢这篇文章，它融合了个人历史和文学分析，而且我也发现它非常熟悉。

Exactly 17 years ago this week, when I witnessed the sudden death of someone I loved, I was thrust into a private hell, a netherworld of despair.

就在17年前的这个星期，当我亲眼目睹我所爱的人突然去世时，我被推入了一个私人地狱，一个绝望的阴间。

I struggled to connect with friends and family, and they with me.

我很难与朋友和家人联系，他们也与我联系。

It was like I was trapped underwater, screaming, and they were looking down at me, unable to hear, much less help.

就像我被困在水下，尖叫着，他们低头看着我，听不到声音，更不用说提供帮助了。

Poetry, though, could breach the surface, offering me what I so desperately needed: a sense of empathy.

然而，诗歌可以突破表面，为我提供我迫切需要的东西：同理心。

I analyzed poems about death and mourning, pondering the words, meaning, and mechanics that made me feel the verses so deeply.

我分析了有关死亡和哀悼的诗歌，思考了那些让我深深感受到这些诗句的词语、意义和机制。

Poems, as Javadizadeh reminds us in his essay about Bita, can be portals—to other people, to other planes, and even to ourselves.

正如贾瓦迪扎德在他关于比塔的文章中提醒我们的那样，诗歌可以成为通往其他人、其他层面、甚至我们自己的门户。

—SD

—SD

## The Ones We Sent Away

## 我们送走的人

Jennifer Senior | The Atlantic | August 7, 2023 | 13,585 words

詹妮弗高级|大西洋 | 2023 年 8 月 7 日 | 13,585 字

Fair warning, dear reader: This will be among the best stories you read this year.

公平警告，亲爱的读者：这将是您今年读到的最好的故事之一。

Prepare yourself to be wrecked.

做好被毁掉的准备吧。

In this masterpiece of longform journalism, Jennifer Senior reports on her aunt Adele, a woman later diagnosed with Coffin-Siris syndrome 12, a genetic condition that manifests in intellectual disability and physical delays.

在这部长篇新闻杰作中，Jennifer Senior 报道了她的姨妈 Adele，她后来被诊断出患有 Coffin-Siris 综合征 12，这是一种表现为智力障碍和身体发育迟缓的遗传疾病。

Adele was institutionalized at 21 months old on the advice of doctors who insisted that a care placement was the best thing for her, leaving her older sister Rona bereft “as though she’d lost an arm or a leg.” At its core this story is about trauma and loss, suffered chiefly by Adele who was deprived of her family and early chances to expand her intellectual capacity, warehoused in the notorious Willowbrook State School.

阿黛尔在 21 个月大时，根据医生的建议被送进了收容机构，医生坚持认为护理安置对她来说是最好的选择，这让她的姐姐罗娜失去了“就像失去了一条胳膊或一条腿一样”。这个故事的核心是关于创伤和失落，主要是阿黛尔所遭受的创伤和损失，她被剥夺了家人和早期发展智力的机会，这些机会被存放在臭名昭著的威洛布鲁克州立学校。

The shockwaves of loss extend outward to Adele’s mother, father, and sister, deprived of Adele’s presence in their lives, and to society at large, deprived of Adele and the person she could have become had she received more enlightened, loving care much earlier in life.

失去亲人的冲击波波及到阿黛尔的母亲、父亲和妹妹，他们的生活中失去了阿黛尔的存在，也波及了整个社会，失去了阿黛尔以及如果她早年受到更开明、关爱的照顾，她本可以成为的人。

Glimpses into Adele’s psyche, including her need for order, her penchant for needlepoint, and delight in matching her clothing, hint at the contours of Adele’s personality.

瞥见阿黛尔的内心，包括她对秩序的需求、她对刺绣的喜爱以及对搭配服装的喜爱，暗示了阿黛尔的性格轮廓。

Senior, in trying to name her aunt’s condition to attempt to understand the scope of loss, confronts the many ethical concerns of writing about someone who is not able to give consent.

西尼尔在试图说出她姨妈的病情以试图了解损失的范围时，面临着撰写无法给予同意的人的许多道德问题。

Tracing her aunt’s living conditions and likely treatment at Willowbrook makes for extremely difficult, but absolutely necessary reading, to ask and attempt to answer a vital question: How do you comprehend the cost when, despite the best of intentions, we fail to provide essential care to the most vulnerable among us?

追踪她姨妈在 Willowbrook 的生活条件和可能的治疗，是一项极其困难但绝对必要的阅读，以提出并试图回答一个至关重要的问题：尽管我们的初衷是好的，但我们未能为我们中最弱势的群体提供基本护理，您如何理解所付出的代价？

—KS

—KS

## Inside Barbados’ Historic Push for Slave Reparations

## 巴巴多斯历史性地推动奴隶赔偿的内幕

Janell Ross| TIME |July 6, 2023 | 4,309 words

珍妮尔·罗斯|时间 |2023 年 7 月 6 日 | 4,309 字

It’s been nine years since Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote his seminal essay “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic.

塔内西斯·科茨在《大西洋月刊》上发表他的开创性文章《赔偿案》已有九年了。

Today, the idea of compensating Black Americans for the horrors of slavery and institutionalized racism remains fringe at best.

如今，为美国黑人遭受奴隶制和制度化种族主义的恐怖提供补偿的想法充其量仍然是边缘化的。

The same goes in other countries that were once complicit in human bondage.

其他曾经参与人类奴役的国家也是如此。

But in the island nation of Barbados, where slaves made sugar plantations wildly lucrative, support for reparations is very real—and growing stronger.

但在岛国巴巴多斯，奴隶们让甘蔗种植园利润丰厚，对赔偿的支持是非常真实的，而且越来越强大。

This year, under the leadership of President Mia Mottley, the country is asking European countries for a “Marshall Plan-like public investment,” as opposed to the individual payments we usually associate with reparations.

今年，在总统米娅·莫特利的领导下，该国要求欧洲国家进行“类似马歇尔计划的公共投资”，而不是我们通常将其与赔偿联系在一起的个人付款。

Mottley, though, isn’t at the heart of this feature about Barbados’ groundbreaking efforts.

不过，莫特利并不是巴巴多斯开创性努力这一专题的核心。

Instead, writer Jannell Ross showcases Esther Phillips, the country’s poet laureate, who went from believing reparations were radical, to viewing them as unlikely, to arguing passionately for them.

相反，作家詹内尔·罗斯（Jannell Ross）展示了该国桂冠诗人埃丝特·菲利普斯（Esther Phillips）的故事，她从认为赔偿是激进的，到认为赔偿不太可能，再到热情地为赔偿辩护。

Phillips hopes that other people, particularly in Europe, will undergo transformations of their own.

菲利普斯希望其他人，特别是欧洲人，也能经历自己的转变。

“If something of such horror is revealed,” she tells Ross, “and you’re still benefiting from the proceeds, you cannot turn you head and say, ‘Well, what has to do with me?’”—SD

“如果如此恐怖的事情被揭露，”她告诉罗斯，“而你仍然从收益中受益，你不能转过头说，‘好吧，与我有什么关系？’”——SD

## The Atomic Disease

## 原子病

Rachel Greenley | Orion Magazine | August 1, 2023 | 3,504 words

雷切尔·格林利 | 雷切尔·格林利猎户座杂志 | 2023 年 8 月 1 日 | 3,504 字

Despite medical science’s many advances, anyone who has ever supported a loved one through a catastrophic illness knows that science has much farther to go.

尽管医学取得了许多进步，但任何曾经支持亲人度过灾难性疾病的人都知道，科学还有很长的路要走。

Where you need answers, often there are only questions.

当你需要答案时，通常只有问题。

For Orion, Rachel Greenley considers America’s love affair with nuclear bombs and nuclear power—a race for supremacy in the name of war and science that has killed countless, both directly and indirectly, as those who live downwind and downstream endure water and soil contaminated by toxic waste and the cancers that ensue.

在《猎户座》中，雷切尔·格林利（Rachel Greenley）认为美国对核弹和核能的热爱是一场以战争和科学名义争夺霸权的竞赛，这场竞赛直接或间接地造成了无数人死亡，因为那些生活在顺风和下游的人们忍受着被有毒废物污染的水和土壤以及随之而来的癌症。

“It’s clear as thirst when life leaves a body,” she writes.

“当生命离开身体时，这就像干渴一样明显，”她写道。

“The heavy vessel left behind is void of the personality and warmth that brightly colored the world.

“留下的沉重的容器失去了照亮世界的个性和温暖。

My world…He was thirty-five years old.” It’s not that Greenley doesn’t believe in science; rather, as she so poignantly notes in this gripping essay, she cannot trust fallible officials in charge of managing nuclear projects and disasters, those who deflect concern and downplay the danger of a threat that cannot be seen with the naked eye, one that may have taken her husband and the father of her children.

我的世界……他三十五岁了。”并不是格林利不相信科学；而是格林利不相信科学。相反，正如她在这篇扣人心弦的文章中尖锐指出的那样，她不能相信负责管理核项目和灾难的容易犯错的官员，这些官员转移关注并淡化肉眼无法看到的威胁的危险，这种威胁可能夺去了她的丈夫和孩子的父亲的生命。

Is ignorance to blame, or ambivalence, or perhaps a combination of both?

是无知的罪魁祸首，还是矛盾的心态，或者两者兼而有之？

For Greenley and so many others, it’s a question that deserves to be answered.

对于格林利和其他许多人来说，这是一个值得回答的问题。

—KS

—KS

## — September —

## — 九月 —

## When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row

## 当巫师和兽人来到死囚牢房时

Keri Blakinger | The Marshall Project | August 31, 2023 | 4,584 words

克里·布莱金格 |马歇尔计划 | 2023 年 8 月 31 日 | 4,584 字

A great longread educates, and in doing so, offers an unexpected poignancy.

一本伟大的长篇读物具有教育意义，并在这样做的过程中提供了意想不到的辛酸。

Keri Blakinger’s profile of Tony Ford and Billy Wardlow, two men who bonded over games of Dungeons & Dragons while incarcerated in Texas, does just that.

克里·布莱金格 (Keri Blakinger) 对托尼·福特 (Tony Ford) 和比利·沃德洛 (Billy Wardlow) 的简介就做到了这一点，这两个男人在德克萨斯州被监禁期间因《龙与地下城》游戏而结下了不解之缘。

She gives us a glimpse into death row, where there are no educational or social programs because the men will never return to society, where the isolation is so extreme that the United Nations has condemned these conditions as torture.

她让我们一睹死囚牢房的风采，那里没有任何教育或社会计划，因为这些人永远不会重返社会，那里的孤立程度如此之高，以至于联合国谴责这些条件是酷刑。

For Ford and Wardlow, Dungeons & Dragons gave them purpose.

对于福特和沃德洛来说，《龙与地下城》给了他们目标。

The men were incarcerated as teens, well before they had to earn a paycheck or pay rent, and D&D helped them learn to manage money.

这些人在青少年时期就被监禁，当时他们还没有工资或支付房租，《龙与地下城》帮助他们学会了理财。

But most of all, as Blakinger so deftly reveals, Dungeons & Dragons gave them something to look forward to, a simple yet necessary form of hope.

但最重要的是，正如布莱金格巧妙地揭示的那样，《龙与地下城》给了他们一些值得期待的东西，一种简单但必要的希望形式。

Ford and Wardlow built not just a friendship, but a deep connection in a place where the only human contact comes when the guards handcuff you.

福特和沃德洛不仅建立了友谊，而且在一个只有当警卫给你戴上手铐时才能进行人际接触的地方建立了深厚的联系。

In a stroke of journalistic brilliance, Blakinger uses details from Wardlow’s D&D character Arthaxx d’Cannith, a magical prodigy, to deepen our understanding of Wardlow and his true character.

布莱金格以新闻才智的笔触，利用了沃德洛的《龙与地下城》角色阿尔萨克斯·德卡尼斯（Arthaxx d’Cannith）（一位魔法神童）的细节，加深了我们对沃德洛及其真实性格的理解。

“Every day, Arthaxx used his gifts to help the higher-ups of House Cannith perfect the invention they hoped would end a century of war.

“每天，阿尔萨克斯都会利用他的天赋帮助卡尼斯家族的高层完善他们希望结束一个世纪战争的发明。

At night, he came home to his wife, his childhood sweetheart,” she writes.

晚上，他回到了他青梅竹马的妻子身边，”她写道。

If only this Dungeons & Dragons dream could have come true.

如果龙与地下城的梦想能够实现就好了。

—KS

—KS

## I Never Called Her Momma

## 我从来没有叫过她妈妈

Jenisha Watts | The Atlantic | September 13, 2023 | 11,129 words

杰尼莎·瓦茨 |大西洋 | 2023 年 9 月 13 日 | 11,129 字

Journalist Jenisha Watts was raised in Kentucky, in part by her mom Trina Renee Watts, and in part by her granny.

记者杰尼莎·瓦茨 (Jenisha Watts) 在肯塔基州长大，部分由她的母亲特里娜·蕾妮·瓦茨 (Trina Renee Watts) 抚养，部分由她的奶奶抚养。

At one time, Trina was a promising track star.

曾经，特丽娜是一位很有前途的田径明星。

She loved words and was accepted to Western Kentucky University.

她热爱文字，并被西肯塔基大学录取。

But when she became pregnant with Jenisha, she dropped out.

但当她怀上杰尼莎后，她就退出了。

Soon, Trina was addicted to drugs, with five children from five different fathers, often leaving the kids alone when she left to get high.

很快，特丽娜就对毒品上瘾了，她有五个孩子，分别来自五个不同的父亲，当她离开去吸毒时，她经常把孩子们留在家里。

How did everything go wrong, seemingly so suddenly?

怎么一切都变得如此突然？

Jenisha, a senior editor at The Atlantic, unravels a tangled family history skein by skein, discovering that Trina was sexually abused by her stepfather, Big Dishman, childhood trauma that became generational when Trina spiraled into addiction.

《大西洋月刊》的高级编辑杰尼莎解开了一个又一个错综复杂的家族史，她发现特丽娜曾遭到继父大迪什曼的性虐待，当特丽娜陷入毒瘾时，这种童年创伤成为代代相传的创伤。

Jenisha goes to Florida to live with relatives; her siblings went into the child welfare system.

杰尼莎去佛罗里达与亲戚住在一起；她的兄弟姐妹进入了儿童福利系统。

They never gained a stable living situation, causing damage that spurred their own addictions.

他们从未获得稳定的生活环境，造成的伤害刺激了他们自己的毒瘾。

This is a very tough read.

这是一本非常艰难的读物。

It is a master class in craft, a bold testament to courage in the face of repeated humiliation.

这是一门大师级的技艺，是面对屡次羞辱时的勇气的大胆证明。

The final line of this piece is the most triumphant and inspiring sentence I have read this year.

这篇文章的最后一行是我今年读过的最胜利、最鼓舞人心的一句话。

I won’t spoil it for you.

我不会为你破坏它。

It speaks to a truth: that we come into this world with part of our story written for us unless we can stand up, take the pen, and start to write the story for ourselves.

它道出了一个真理：我们来到这个世界上时，我们的故事的一部分是为我们写的，除非我们能够站起来，拿起笔，开始为自己写故事。

—KS

—KS

## The Kids on the Night Shift

## 夜班的孩子们

Hannah Dreier | The New York Times Magazine | September 18, 2023 | 7,705 words

汉娜·德雷尔 |纽约时报杂志 | 2023 年 9 月 18 日 | 7,705 字

The past week saw no shortage of quality investigative reporting—Wired putting the lie to Elon Musk’s claims about Neuralink lab monkeys, ProPublica uncovering how Columbia University protected a predatorial doctor—but work like Hannah Dreier’s exposé of the child labor powering poultry plants doesn’t come along often.

过去一周不乏高质量的调查报道——《连线》杂志揭穿了埃隆·马斯克关于 Neuralink 实验室猴子的说法，ProPublica 揭露了哥伦比亚大学如何保护一名掠夺性医生——但像汉娜·德雷尔 (Hannah Dreier) 揭露为家禽工厂提供动力的童工这样的报道并不常见。

It begins with 14-year-old Marcos Cux getting his arm nearly torn off by a conveyor belt at 2:30 in the morning.

故事始于凌晨 2 点 30 分，14 岁的马科斯·库克斯 (Marcos Cux) 的手臂差点被传送带扯断。

It ends, multiple surgeries and untold heartbreaking stories later, with Cux going back to another night shift at an even more dehumanizing job.

在经历了多次手术和无数令人心碎的故事之后，故事结束了，库克斯又回到了另一个夜班，从事着更加非人性的工作。

He has to; his family in Guatemala is depending on him.

他必须这样做；他在危地马拉的家人依赖他。

In between, Dreier brings you into the migrant community of rural Virginia: Dreamland, the trailer park where many of these child workers live with their relatives and guardians.

在其间，德雷尔带您进入弗吉尼亚州农村的移民社区：梦境，这是一个拖车公园，许多童工与他们的亲戚和监护人住在一起。

The high school where exhausted children sleep through class and teachers keep their students’ overnight work schedules on sticky notes.

在这所高中，筋疲力尽的孩子们在课堂上睡觉，老师们把学生的通宵工作时间表写在便利贴上。

The convenience store where teen after teen cashes in their paychecks to send money home to their families.

青少年在这家便利店兑现工资，寄钱回家给家人。

This isn’t a drive-by, it’s a live-in, fueled by tireless reporting and peerless scenework (and phenomenal photography, courtesy of Meridith Kohut).

这不是一次驾车路过，而是一场现场直播，由孜孜不倦的报道和无与伦比的场景作品（以及出色的摄影，由 Meridith Kohut 提供）推动。

And crucially, it’s a wake-up call.

最重要的是，这是一个警钟。

Everyone knows how the factory farming industry disrespects the animals it turns into food.

每个人都知道工厂化养殖业是如何不尊重其转化为食物的动物的。

They even know how that same industry feasts on the people who keep its slaughterhouses running.

他们甚至知道这个行业是如何让屠宰场运转的人们大饱口福的。

But until now, many of us could plead ignorance of how the Perdues and Tysons of the world, buffered by the third-party contractors they hide behind, chew through the childhoods of those who have no choice.

但直到现在，我们中的许多人都可以借口不知道世界上的珀杜家族和泰森家族如何在他们隐藏的第三方承包商的缓冲下吞噬那些别无选择的人的童年。

That time is over.

那个时间已经结束了。

—PR

——公关

## The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children

## 医生对儿童进行实验的别墅

Margaret Talbot | The New Yorker | September 25, 2023 | 14,695 words

玛格丽特·塔尔伯特 |纽约客 | 2023 年 9 月 25 日 | 14,695 字

Margaret Talbot’s story about Evy Mages, a woman who was held as a child at a mysterious psychiatric facility in Innsbruck from 1973-74, was the first piece I dove into at the start of the week—and I’m still thinking about it.

玛格丽特·塔尔博特 (Margaret Talbot) 讲述了艾维·法吉斯 (Evy Mages) 的故事，她是一位在 1973-74 年间被关押在因斯布鲁克一所神秘精神病院的女性，这是我本周初深入研究的第一篇文章，至今我仍在思考它。

For the past few years, Talbot has helped Mages investigate her own family history and recall the memories from this cruel place, where children were observed, humiliated, abused, and even given shots of epiphysan—a veterinary drug derived from cattle—to try and suppress sexual urges.

在过去的几年里，塔尔博特帮助玛吉斯调查了自己的家族史，并回忆起这个残酷地方的记忆，在那里，孩子们被观察、羞辱、虐待，甚至注射骨生素（一种从牛中提取的兽药）来试图抑制性冲动。

This “villa” was as horrific as it sounds, run by a Nazi-trained psychologist named Maria Nowak-Vogl whose sole purpose was to destroy children and extinguish their inner light.

这座“别墅”正如听起来一样可怕，由一位受过纳粹训练的心理学家玛丽亚·诺瓦克-沃格尔经营，她的唯一目的就是摧毁儿童并熄灭他们内心的光芒。

This is a devastating story and a hard one to read.

这是一个毁灭性的故事，而且很难读。

But I’ve thought a lot about the long journey Mages has made since that awful experience, and how incredible it is that she’s come out the other side—now a loving mother to her own grown children, and helping other survivors report the abuse they experienced.

但我思考了很多关于法师自那次可怕的经历以来所经历的漫长旅程，以及她从另一边走出来是多么令人难以置信——现在是她自己成年孩子的慈母，并帮助其他幸存者报告他们所经历的虐待。

Talbot deftly writes a moving story of one woman’s resilience and the harrowing child psychiatry of postwar Austria.

塔尔博特巧妙地写了一个感人的故事，讲述了一名妇女的坚韧和战后奥地利令人痛苦的儿童精神病学。

—CLR

—CLR

## — October —

## — 十月 —

## The Race to Catch the Last Nazis

## 追捕最后纳粹分子的竞赛

Tom Lamont | GQ | September 12, 2023 | 6,622 words

汤姆·拉蒙特 |智群 | 2023 年 9 月 12 日 | 6,622 字

Thomas Will is the bureau chief of—wait for it—the Central Office of the State Justice Administration for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes.

托马斯·威尔是——等等——国家司法总局国家社会主义犯罪调查中央办公室的局长。

He is a Nazi hunter.

他是一名纳粹猎人。

The last to hold the role in the same capacity; it will end here, in the 2020s, with the final generation of perpetrators already in their 90s.

最后以相同身份担任该职位的人；一切将在 2020 年代结束，最后一代肇事者已年过 90 多岁。

Tom Lamont has spent a great deal of time with Will for this piece, much of it in offices.

汤姆·拉蒙特 (Tom Lamont) 花了很多时间与威尔一起创作这篇作品，其中大部分时间是在办公室里完成的。

Yet, somehow, in setting scenes of bureaucracy, Lamont creates a searing, chilling atmosphere.

然而，不知何故，在设置官僚主义场景时，拉蒙特营造了一种灼热、令人毛骨悚然的气氛。

At one point, Will uses a packet of sugar and an empty espresso cup on a conference table for a demonstration.

有一次，威尔在会议桌上使用一包糖和一个空浓缩咖啡杯进行演示。

The cup represented mass murder, and the sugar the limits of criminal culpability.

杯子代表大规模谋杀，糖则代表刑事责任的界限。

The sugar is now at the outer limits.

糖现在处于外部限制。

They are investigating secretaries, not camp commandants.

他们正在调查秘书，而不是集中营指挥官。

People who would have sat in similar offices at similar tables, typing up death orders.

人们会坐在类似的办公室里，坐在类似的桌子上，输入死刑命令。

The Holocaust was so efficient because every day, civilians turned up at an office and did their jobs.

大屠杀是如此高效，因为每天都有平民出现在办公室并完成他们的工作。

Incredibly uncomfortable to think about.

想想都令人难以置信的不舒服。

Incredibly necessary.

非常有必要。

At one point, Lamont asks Will: “What if Hitler’s army had conscripted him and sent him to work in a camp?

有一次，拉蒙特问威尔：“如果希特勒的军队征召了他，并把他送到集中营工作怎么办？

Would he have gone?” His answer: “I don’t know.” Some people question sending nonagenarian office workers to trial—but it is noticed, it is discussed, and therefore worthwhile.

他会走吗？他的回答是：“我不知道。”有些人质疑将九十多岁的办公室职员送上法庭受审——但这一点已被注意到、已被讨论，因此是值得的。

There is such powerful writing here, with many subtle messages.

这里的文字非常有力，包含许多微妙的信息。

I could not stop thinking about it.

我无法停止思考它。

—CW

—CW

## My Brain Doesn’t Picture Things

## 我的大脑无法想象事物

Marco Giancotti | Nautilus | October 4, 2023 | 3,644 words

马可·詹科蒂 |鹦鹉螺 | 2023 年 10 月 4 日 | 3,644 字

Marco Giancotti has aphantasia, which means “the absence of images” in Greek.

马可·吉安科蒂患有失语症，在希腊语中意思是“图像的缺失”。

Ask him to picture a top hat or recall a sound or a smell and he can’t imagine it.

让他想象一顶大礼帽或回忆一种声音或气味，他无法想象。

He has trouble remembering events unless he can deduce their timing by assembling facts such as where he was living and the people in his circle at the time.

他很难记住事件，除非他能通过收集事实来推断事件发生的时间，例如他住在哪里以及当时圈子里的人。

For Nautilus, Giancotti does a terrific job breaking down his lived experiences and the studies he’s participating in so that science, society, and the lay reader can begin to understand more about this fascinating condition.

对于《鹦鹉螺》，吉安科蒂出色地分解了他的生活经历和他正在参与的研究，以便科学、社会和普通读者能够开始更多地了解这种令人着迷的情况。

“As soon as I close my eyes, what I see are not everyday objects, animals, and vehicles, but the dark underside of my eyelids.

“当我闭上眼睛时，我看到的不是日常的物体、动物和车辆，而是我眼睑下面黑暗的部分。

I can’t willingly form the faintest of images in my mind,” he writes.

我无法心甘情愿地在脑海中形成最模糊的图像，”他写道。

“I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head.” What’s most beautiful and poignant about this piece is how, by learning more about aphantasia and contributing to its study, Giancotti comes to appreciate his condition as an example of what makes humanity so beautifully diverse.

“我也无法在脑海中召唤声音、气味或任何其他类型的感官刺激。”这件作品最美丽、最令人心酸的是，通过更多地了解失语症并为其研究做出贡献，詹科蒂逐渐认识到自己的状况是人类如此美丽多样化的一个例子。

“The question I started with—what’s wrong with me?—was both rhetorical and itself wrong.

“我一开始提出的问题——我怎么了？——既是修辞性的，而且本身就是错误的。

The better question is one we all ask ourselves at some point: ‘What makes me who I am?’” Can you imagine how much better our world would be, if we all dared to do so?

更好的问题是我们在某个时候都会问自己：‘是什么让我成为了现在的我？’”你能想象，如果我们都敢于这样做，我们的世界将会变得多么美好？

—KS

—KS

## The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat

## 你吃的海鲜背后的罪恶

Ian Urbina | The New Yorker | October 9, 2023 | 9,573 words

伊恩·乌尔维纳 |纽约客 | 2023 年 10 月 9 日 | 9,573 字

Where does your seafood come from?

你的海鲜来自哪里？

Who caught and handled it?

谁抓到并处理的？

The more I read about overfishing, illegal industry practices, and horrific work conditions, the more it stinks.

我对过度捕捞、非法行业行为和可怕的工作条件了解得越多，就越感到恶心。

Each year, China catches more than five billion pounds of seafood, much of it squid, through its distant-water fleet.

中国每年通过其远洋船队捕获超过 50 亿磅的海鲜，其中大部分是鱿鱼。

These ships roam all over the world, often in unauthorized areas; analysts believe the country disguises some of them as fishing vessels when they’re in fact part of a “maritime militia” surveilling the sea, looking to expand control over contested waters.

这些船只在世界各地航行，通常是在未经授权的区域；分析人士认为，该国将其中一些伪装成渔船，而实际上它们是监视海域的“海上民兵”的一部分，旨在扩大对有争议水域的控制。

Onboard, workers are abused and held against their will.

在船上，工人们遭到虐待，并在违背自己意愿的情况下被关押。

Ian Urbina, who runs The Outlaw Ocean Project, spent four years visiting the fleet’s ships and investigating their conditions.

“亡命之徒海洋计划”的负责人伊恩·乌尔维纳 (Ian Urbina) 花了四年时间参观该舰队的船只并调查其状况。

(To communicate with fishermen on ships that prohibited him on board, he tossed up plastic bottles, “weighed down with rice, containing a pen, cigarettes, hard candy, and interview questions.”) He also tracked where squid caught irresponsibly would end up: first to plants in China, some employing Xinjiang labor, and then continuing on to the very places we buy our seafood, like Costco and Safeway.

（为了与禁止他上船的船上的渔民沟通，他扔掉了塑料瓶，“里面装着大米，里面有钢笔、香烟、硬糖和采访问题。”）他还追踪了不负责任捕获的鱿鱼最终会流向哪里：首先是中国的工厂，其中一些工厂雇佣了新疆工人，然后继续流向我们购买海鲜的地方，比如 Costco 和 Safeway。

This is a massive report on how China has become a fishing superpower, but Urbina also weaves within it an emotional, devastating story of an Indonesian worker who joined one of these ships in order to give his family a better life.

这是一篇关于中国如何成为渔业超级大国的大型报告，但乌尔维纳也在其中编织了一个令人感动的、毁灭性的故事，讲述了一名印度尼西亚工人为了让家人过上更好的生活而加入其中一艘船的故事。

Extraordinary reporting that’ll make you reconsider your next plate of calamari.

非凡的报告会让您重新考虑下一盘鱿鱼。

—CLR

—CLR

## I Loved “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Before I Loved Myself

## 在我爱自己之前我就喜欢《德州电锯杀人狂》

Zefyr Lisowski | Electric Lit | October 26, 2023 | 3,553 words

泽菲尔·利索夫斯基 |电动照明| 2023 年 10 月 26 日 | 3,553 字

Apparently, this month marked the 49th anniversary of the seminal horror film Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

显然，本月是影响深远的恐怖片《德州电锯杀人狂》上映 49 周年。

(That odd-number-ness might explain why you haven’t been bombarded with oral histories, retrospectives, and inane listicles like “11 Times Leatherface Gave Glam-God Chic While Dismembering Hippies and We Can’t Stop Crying About It.”) I’ve never seen the movie, but that didn’t stop me from being mesmerized by Zefyr Lisowski’s essay about its outsized role in her life.

（这种奇数或许可以解释为什么你没有被口述历史、回顾和诸如“11次皮脸在肢解嬉皮士的同时赋予华丽上帝般的别致，我们不能停止哭泣”这样的空洞文章轰炸。）我从未看过这部电影，但这并没有阻止我被泽菲尔·利索夫斯基（Zefyr Lisowski）关于其在她生活中的巨大作用的文章所迷住。

Though the piece will linger with you, “haunting” is the wrong word here.

虽然这件作品会让你流连忘返，但“萦绕心头”在这里是错误的词。

Nothing about Lisowski’s prose is uncertain or vaporous; she shows the reader her scars from sentence one, and the next 3,500 words are equally stark and vulnerable.

利索夫斯基的散文中没有任何内容是不确定的或空洞的。她从第一句就向读者展示了她的伤疤，接下来的 3,500 个词同样鲜明而脆弱。

She came to Chain Saw in high school, a miserable adolescent desperate for the distraction of a watch-it-if-you-dare YouTube challenge.

她在高中时就加入了《电锯惊魂》，当时她是一个悲惨的青少年，渴望通过 YouTube 上的“敢看就看”挑战来分散注意力。

What she found was revelation: a brightness and beauty that helped her embrace her Southern roots, and ultimately her own self.

她发现了启示：一种明亮和美丽帮助她拥抱她的南方根源，并最终拥抱她自己。

“There are marks that are left on us, and there are marks we leave on ourselves, and I’m not sure there’s a significant difference between the two,” she writes.

“我们身上留下了一些痕迹，我们自己也留下了一些痕迹，我不确定两者之间是否存在显着差异，”她写道。

At multiple turns, she expresses a thought with such economy that it becomes nearly aphoristic, escaping the borders of an individual experience to become universal.

她在多个回合中以如此简洁的方式表达了一种思想，以至于它几乎成为警句，摆脱了个人经验的界限，变得普遍。

That’s the mark of a great essay—whether you can stomach horror movies or not.

这就是一篇伟大文章的标志——无论你是否能接受恐怖电影。

—PR

——公关

## — November —

## — 十一月 —

## ‘I Remember The Silence Between The Falling Shells’: The Terror of Living Under Siege as a Child

##“我记得炮弹坠落之间的沉默”：童年生活在围困下的恐惧

Zarlasht Halaimzai | The Guardian | October 31, 2023 | 3,572 words

扎拉什特·哈莱姆扎伊 |卫报| 2023 年 10 月 31 日 | 3,572 字

In the last few weeks, the Israel-Gaza war has amassed horrific statistics: the number of hostages, the number of refugees, the number of injuries, the number of deaths—and the number who were children.

过去几周，以色列-加沙战争积累了可怕的统计数据：人质人数、难民人数、受伤人数、死亡人数以及儿童人数。

Yes, the number who were children.

是的，有多少人是孩子。

As Zarlasht Halaimzai states in this extraordinary, harrowing piece for The Guardian, “Children bear the brunt of war.” Writing of her personal experiences—of another war, at another time, with the same consequences—Halaimzai pulls us down from lofty statistics into the raw reality of being bombed, day after day.

正如扎拉什特·哈莱姆扎伊 (Zarlasht Halaimzai) 在《卫报》这篇非凡而悲惨的文章中所说，“战争中，儿童首当其冲。”哈莱姆扎伊写下她的个人经历——另一场战争，在另一个时间，带来同样的后果——将我们从崇高的统计数据中拉回到日复一日被轰炸的原始现实。

She was 10 years old when US-funded mujahideen bombarded her home city of Kabul.

当美国资助的圣战者轰炸她的家乡喀布尔时，她才 10 岁。

Ten years old when “bedtime, schooltime, playtime, and dinnertime all vanished.” Small things make her retelling incredibly powerful: How, after the rockets stopped, her granny would “produce a jar of honey and feed us children a spoonful, trying to wash the taste of terror out of our mouths.” How Halaimzai “couldn’t look at my little sister and my little brother because somehow, I felt ashamed that this was their childhood.” And how “The sound of a rocket hitting a solid object enters your body and lives there forever.” Sentences to pierce your psyche.

十岁时，“睡觉时间、上学时间、玩耍时间和晚餐时间都消失了”。小事让她的复述变得异常有力：火箭停止后，她的奶奶如何“拿出一罐蜂蜜，给我们孩子喂一勺，试图洗掉我们嘴里的恐怖味道。”哈莱姆扎伊“无法看着我的妹妹和弟弟，因为不知何故，我感到羞愧，因为这是他们的童年。”以及“火箭撞击固体物体的声音如何进入你的身体并永远留在那里。”刺透你心灵的句子。

This essay reminds us of the many conflicts that have come before; Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine—to name a few.

这篇文章让我们想起了以前发生过的许多冲突；阿富汗、叙利亚、伊拉克、乌克兰——仅举几例。

It reminds us of the many children who have suffered.

它让我们想起了许多遭受苦难的孩子。

Of the many killed.

在许多被杀的人中。

The many to learn the same life lesson as Halaimzai: “that there are no monsters in the dark.

许多人都学到了与哈莱姆扎伊相同的人生教训：“黑暗中没有怪物。

Only adults who are terrified enough to kill.” If you want to restore your faith in humanity, this is not the piece for you.

只有那些害怕到足以杀人的成年人。”如果你想恢复对人性的信心，这不适合你。

If you want to understand the humanity beneath the bombs, it is.

如果你想了解炸弹下的人性，那就是了。

—CW

—CW

## “I Am Still Alive.

## “我还活着。

Gaza Is No Longer Gaza.”

加沙不再是加沙。”

Atef Abu Saif | The Washington Post | October 30, 2023 | 5,279 words

阿提夫·阿布·赛义夫 |华盛顿邮报 | 2023 年 10 月 30 日 | 5,279 字

This week marks a month since, in response to attacks by Hamas, Israel launched a campaign of unconscionable violence against the Palestinian people.

本周是以色列针对哈马斯袭击发起针对巴勒斯坦人民的不合理暴力活动一个月以来的日子。

As of this writing, Israel has slaughtered more than 10,000 men, women, and children.

截至撰写本文时，以色列已屠杀了超过 10,000 名男人、女人和儿童。

Much has been written about the unfolding genocide—it should not be controversial to use that word—and this stark diary of life under siege is among the most arresting.

关于正在发生的种族灭绝的文章已经有很多了——使用这个词应该不会引起争议——而这本关于围困下生活的赤裸裸的日记是其中最引人注目的。

A raw draft of history, its contents began as voice notes that Atef Abu Saif, a novelist and the minister of culture for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, sent to friends abroad.

其内容是一份原始的历史草稿，最初是小说家兼约旦河西岸巴勒斯坦权力机构文化部长阿特夫·阿布·赛义夫发给国外朋友的语音笔记。

He was in Gaza, enjoying a morning swim, when the bombing began, and he describes the horrors of the present through the crucial lens of the past.

爆炸开始时，他正在加沙享受早晨的游泳，他通过过去的关键镜头描述了现在的恐怖。

“I often think about the time I was shot as a kid, during the first intifada, and how my mother told me I actually died for a few minutes before being brought back to life,” he says.

“我经常想起我小时候在第一次起义期间被枪杀的那次，以及我母亲如何告诉我我实际上死了几分钟然后又复活了，”他说。

“Maybe I can do the same this time.” This memory, like many in the diary, is a stark reminder that Israel has oppressed Palestinians in a system of apartheid built on the heels of the mass dispossession of their land 75 years ago.

“也许这次我也可以这么做。”这段记忆，就像日记中的许多记忆一样，鲜明地提醒我们，以色列在 75 年前大规模剥夺巴勒斯坦人的土地后，建立了种族隔离制度，对巴勒斯坦人进行压迫。

And that is the wellspring: the violence that begets more violence in a devastating cycle.

这就是根源：暴力在毁灭性的循环中引发更多暴力。

“Just as life is a pause between two deaths,” Atef Abu Saif says, “Palestine, as a place and as an idea, is a timeout in the middle of many wars.” —SD

阿特夫·阿布·赛义夫说：“正如生命是两次死亡之间的暂停一样，巴勒斯坦作为一个地方和一个想法，是许多战争中间的暂停。” —SD

## Not One Tree

## 不是一棵树

Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko | n+1 | October 26, 2023 | 16,313 words

格蕾丝·格拉斯 (Grace Glass) 和萨莎·泰科 (Sasha Tycko) | n+1 | 2023 年 10 月 26 日 | 16,313 字

Whether you’ve been following the Cop City saga closely, only just heard about it this week, or have no idea what I’m talking about, you should read this essay.

无论您是一直密切关注《警察城》的传奇故事，还是本周才听说它，还是不知道我在说什么，您都应该阅读这篇文章。

For those who fall into the third category, here’s a quick primer: Cop City is the nickname of a law enforcement training campus under construction near Atlanta, on forested land once inhabited by Native people before they were forcibly removed, then turned into a slave plantation, then into a farm worked by prisoners.

对于属于第三类的人，这里有一个快速入门指南：“警察城”是亚特兰大附近正在建设的执法培训校园的昵称，该校园位于原住民被强行迁移之前居住的林地上，然后变成了奴隶种植园，然后变成了囚犯耕种的农场。

(“The plantation, the prison farm, the police academy: it sounds like a history of America,” Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko write.) Opponents of the project are known as “forest defenders,” and in an incident last January, one of them was shot and killed by police.

（“种植园、监狱农场、警察学院：这听起来像是美国的历史，”格雷斯·格拉斯和萨莎·泰科写道。）该项目的反对者被称为“森林捍卫者”，在去年一月的一次事件中，其中一人被警察枪杀。

This essay is an insider account of the Stop Cop City movement.

本文是“阻止警察城市”运动的内部人士报道。

It is detailed, smart, and very moving.

它详细、聪明、非常感人。

It is about the beauty and the bloodshed of progressive activism, the stories that the land beneath us holds, the racist history of policing, and much, much more.

它讲述了进步行动主义的美丽和流血、我们脚下这片土地的故事、警察的种族主义历史等等。

In a word, it is epic.

简而言之，这是史诗般的。

—SD

—SD

## Inside the Weird and Wonderful World of Miniatures

## 走进奇异而奇妙的微缩模型世界

Scott Huler | Esquire | November 20, 2023 | 5,653 words

斯科特·胡勒 |时尚先生 | 2023 年 11 月 20 日 | 5,653 字

In summer 2020, I ordered a miniature house kit, thinking it would be the first of many cute dioramas I’d construct while stuck at home.

2020 年夏天，我订购了一套微型房屋套件，认为这将是我在家中制作的许多可爱立体模型中的第一个。

As I write this, however, I glance over at the unopened box, a bit embarrassed that I have yet to experience the joy of making it.

然而，当我写这篇文章时，我瞥了一眼未打开的盒子，有点尴尬，因为我还没有体验到制作它的乐趣。

For Esquire, Scott Huler immerses himself in the world of working miniaturists, and a movement that exploded during lockdown and grew even more popular thanks to Instagram and TikTok.

在《Esquire》中，斯科特·胡勒 (Scott Huler) 沉浸在微型画家的工作世界中，这场运动在封锁期间爆发，并在 Instagram 和 TikTok 的帮助下变得更加流行。

Speaking with collectors and artists, such as professional miniaturist Robert Off, Huler explores the why behind this art.

胡勒与专业细密画家罗伯特·奥夫等收藏家和艺术家交谈，探讨了这种艺术背后的原因。

What makes a roombox—the boxed display that houses a miniature 3D environment—so irresistible?

是什么让 Roombox（容纳微型 3D 环境的盒装显示器）如此令人难以抗拒？

I love what Huler discovers: for many miniature makers and viewers, a roombox provides a way to focus, a place of relief.

我喜欢胡勒的发现：对于许多微缩模型制作者和观众来说，房间盒子提供了一种集中注意力的方式，一个放松的地方。

An entire world in which to escape, or to control.

一个可供逃避或控制的整个世界。

An outlet to imagine and dream that “just offstage, there’s more going on if you could just get small enough to walk through that little doorway.” This piece brought me joy, not just because I was wowed by the skilled craftsmanship of miniaturists working today, but it also reminded me of the peace we can find within our interior world, and the power of our own imagination.

一个想象和梦想的出口，“就在舞台之外，如果你能变得足够小，穿过那个小门口，就会有更多的事情发生。”这件作品给我带来了快乐，不仅因为我对当今细密画家的精湛工艺感到惊叹，而且它还让我想起我们可以在内部世界中找到的平静，以及我们自己想象力的力量。

—CLR

—CLR

## — December —

## — 十二月 —

## After the Hit-and-Run

## 肇事逃逸后

Mari Cohen | Jewish Currents | September 28, 2023 | 7,745 words

玛丽·科恩 |犹太潮流| 2023 年 9 月 28 日 | 7,745 字

In 2015, I was on an Amtrak train that derailed, killing eight people, including the young man sitting next to me.

2015年，我乘坐的Amtrak火车出轨，造成八人死亡，其中包括坐在我旁边的年轻人。

I was lucky to escape with relatively minor physical injuries.

我很幸运地逃脱了，身体受伤相对较轻。

In the years since, I have thought often about the engineer of the train, who was acquitted in a jury trial of a series of charges related to the crash.

从那以后的几年里，我经常想起火车工程师，他在陪审团对与事故有关的一系列指控的审判中被无罪释放。

He had no intention to cause harm, and he certainly wasn’t responsible for the systemic issues that, had Amtrak addressed them proactively, might have mitigated the scale of the tragedy.

他无意造成伤害，而且他当然不对系统性问题负责，如果美铁主动解决这些问题，可能会减轻悲剧的规模。

I don’t think he should be made to suffer—I have no doubt that living with the knowledge of what happened while he was driving the train is a terrible enough burden.

我认为他不应该承受痛苦——我毫不怀疑，在他驾驶火车时所发生的事情的情况下生活是一个足够可怕的负担。

But this doesn’t mean that I’m not upset about the crash, a feeling that wasn’t really assuaged by the compensation that Amtrak provided victims.

但这并不意味着我对这次事故不感到不安，美铁为受害者提供的赔偿并没有真正缓解这种感觉。

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to talk to the engineer, because in the exchange of words there might be some measure of healing for both sides.

我有时想知道与工程师交谈会是什么样子，因为在言语交流中可能对双方都有一定程度的治愈作用。

A similar notion is at the heart of Mari Cohen’s beautiful essay about being the victim of a hit-and-run.

玛丽·科恩（Mari Cohen）关于肇事逃逸受害者的精彩文章的核心内容也有类似的概念。

In the aftermath, Cohen began reporting on restorative justice approaches to traffic crashes, which advocates believe can “better serve the needs of all involved, creating a confidential space where drivers could express remorse without legal consequences, and where victims could receive the apologies they were looking for.” Through readings, interviews, and her own experience, Cohen considers whether restorative justice is a viable alternative to criminal justice.

此后，科恩开始报道针对交通事故的恢复性司法方法，倡导者认为这种方法可以“更好地满足所有参与者的需求，创造一个保密的空间，让司机可以在不承担法律后果的情况下表达悔恨，受害者也可以得到他们想要的道歉。”通过阅读、采访和她自己的经历，科恩思考恢复性司法是否是刑事司法的可行替代方案。

She suggests that it might be if we can shift our perceptions about closure.

她建议，如果我们能够改变对封闭的看法，这也许是可能的。

“I am trying to let go of the idea that a solution has to do everything,” she writes, “in order to do something.” —SD

“我试图放弃这样一种想法，即解决方案必须包揽一切，”她写道，“才能有所作为。” —SD

## When the Coast Guard Intercepts Unaccompanied Kids

## 当海岸警卫队拦截无人陪伴的孩子时

Seth Freed Wessler | ProPublica | December 7, 2023 | 8,359 words

赛斯·弗里德·韦斯勒 | 塞斯·弗里德·韦斯勒ProPublica | 2023 年 12 月 7 日 | 8,359 字

Since summer 2021, the US Coast Guard has detained more than 27,000 people at sea, including an alarming number of Haitian refugee children traveling alone.

自2021年夏季以来，美国海岸警卫队已在海上拘留了超过27,000人，其中包括数量惊人的独自旅行的海地难民儿童。

Immigration policy offshore is different than on land—asylum doesn’t apply at sea—and the system in place, reports Seth Freed Wessler, is opaque and dangerously inconsistent.

海上移民政策与陆地上的移民政策不同——庇护不适用于海上——塞斯·弗里德·韦斯勒报告说，现有的制度不透明，而且不一致，非常危险。

Coast Guard immigration patrols are often closed off to journalists, but Wessler obtained internal documents about one boat detained in March that carried a group of Haitians, including three unaccompanied children: a 10-year-old boy and two sisters, 8 and 4.

海岸警卫队的移民巡逻经常不对记者开放，但韦斯勒获得了有关三月份一艘被扣押的船只的内部文件，船上载有一群海地人，其中包括三名无人陪伴的儿童：一名 10 岁的男孩和两个分别为 8 岁和 4 岁的姐妹。

Wessler tracked down these kids, along with 18 others from the boat.

韦斯勒在船上找到了这些孩子以及其他 18 个人。

He does an incredible job recounting the experience from the boy’s perspective: Tcherry started his journey at a smuggler’s house in the Bahamas and endured 12 hours inside the packed cabin of a shabby boat.

他从男孩的角度讲述了这段经历，令人难以置信：切里从巴哈马的一个走私者家里开始了他的旅程，并在一艘破旧的船上挤满了人的船舱里度过了 12 个小时。

The plan was to land in Florida, and then somehow make his way to Canada to join his mother.

他的计划是降落在佛罗里达州，然后以某种方式前往加拿大与母亲团聚。

(There are many heartbreaking details in this story, but one I can’t get out of my head is that some kids on these boats are so young, they don’t even know their parents’ names or the country in which they were born.) After five days at sea, the Coast Guard has no choice but to send Tcherry and the two girls back to Haiti.

（这个故事中有很多令人心碎的细节，但我无法忘怀的是，这些船上的一些孩子太小了，他们甚至不知道父母的名字，也不知道自己出生的国家。）在海上航行了五天后，海岸警卫队别无选择，只能将切里和两个女孩送回海地。

As Wessler notes, detainments at sea aren’t just scarring for refugees: the work has taken a toll on Coast Guard members, too, such as the conflicted officer who encounters Tcherry and the girls on the boat—and later wonders what has become of them.

正如韦斯勒指出的那样，海上拘留不仅给难民带来了创伤：这项工作也给海岸警卫队成员造成了损失，例如在船上遇到切里和女孩的冲突军官，后来想知道她们后来怎么样了。

A gut-wrenching look into the immigration crisis at Florida’s maritime border.

对佛罗里达州海上边境的移民危机进行令人痛心的调查。

—CLR

—CLR

## What Kind Of Future Does De-Extinction Promise?

## 消除灭绝承诺会带来什么样的未来？

Sabrina Imbler | Defector | December 6, 2023 | 5,436 words

萨布丽娜·因布勒 |叛逃者| 2023 年 12 月 6 日 | 5,436 字

Ever imagine what it would be like if a long-lost species roamed Earth once again?

有没有想象过，如果一个消失已久的物种再次出现在地球上会是什么样子？

Colossal, a well-funded company at the forefront of the de-extinction business, plans to make this a reality.

Colossal 是一家资金雄厚的公司，处于反灭绝业务的前沿，计划将这一目标变为现实。

On the surface, this sounds like an ecological dream, as well as a way for humans to do good and reverse some of the destruction we’ve caused on this planet.

从表面上看，这听起来像是一个生态梦想，也是人类行善并扭转我们对这个星球造成的一些破坏的一种方式。

But what does de-extinction entail?

但去灭绝意味着什么呢？

In this fascinating read, Sabrina Imbler explains that a recreated dodo would not actually be a dodo, but a genetic hybrid of the dodo and its closest living relative (the Nicobar pigeon).

在这本引人入胜的读物中，萨布丽娜·因布勒 (Sabrina Imbler) 解释说，再造的渡渡鸟实际上并不是渡渡鸟，而是渡渡鸟与其现存近亲（尼科巴鸽）的基因杂交体。

What, then, would teach this lone dodo how to be a dodo?

那么，什么能教会这只孤独的渡渡鸟如何成为一只渡渡鸟呢？

Or, in the case of the mammoth, which would be developed with the genetic help of the Asian elephant, how would the animal physically come into being?

或者，就猛犸象而言，它是在亚洲象的遗传帮助下培育出来的，这种动物的物理形态是如何形成的？

The uneasy answer: a surrogate elephant mother who would never be able to consent to carrying another species.

令人不安的答案是：一个永远无法同意携带另一个物种的代孕大象母亲。

(In the hope of an alternative, Colossal has a team focused on developing an artificial womb, which—depending on your perspective—might be even creepier.) There’s a lot more to ponder here, including the key question of who, ultimately, de-extinction is for.

（为了找到替代方案，Colossal 有一个团队专注于开发人造子宫，这——取决于你的观点——可能会更令人毛骨悚然。）这里还有很多东西需要思考，包括最终为谁而去灭绝的关键问题。

As Imbler asserts, it’s not for the animals, but for Colossal’s VCs and investors, who include Paris Hilton.

正如 Imbler 所言，这不是为了动物，而是为了 Colossal 的风险投资人和投资者，其中包括帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton)。

(Yes, you read that correctly.) Always, always click on a link with a Sabrina Imbler byline.

（是的，您没有看错。） 始终、始终单击带有 Sabrina Imbler 署名的链接。

They write my favorite kind of science writing: curious, thoughtful, and accessible.

他们写的科学文章是我最喜欢的：好奇、深思熟虑、通俗易懂。

This piece is no exception.

这件作品也不例外。

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You can also browse all of our year-end collections since 2011 in one place.

您还可以在一处浏览我们自 2011 年以来的所有年终系列。