Best of 2024: All Our Number One Story Picks
Since 2015, we’ve published 543 editions of the Weekly Top 5 newsletter.
自 2015 年以来，我们已出版了 543 期每周前 5 名时事通讯。
While we do have some unwritten guidelines on how we order our selections, the number one story of the week will command your heart and mind.
虽然我们确实有一些不成文的指导方针来指导我们如何排序我们的选择，但本周排名第一的故事将控制您的心和思想。
They’re often serious but always unforgettable.
他们通常很严肃，但总是令人难忘。
What’s more, you can browse our Top 5 archives and trace the course of history, week-by-week, with these topical pieces.
此外，您还可以浏览我们的前 5 名档案，并通过这些热门文章逐周追踪历史进程。
—Carolyn, Cheri, Krista, Peter & Seyward
——卡罗琳、谢里、克里斯塔、彼得和西沃德
## January
##一月
## My Unraveling
## 我的解开
Tom Scocca | New York Magazine | January 2, 2024 | 6,677 words
汤姆·斯科卡 |纽约杂志 | 2024 年 1 月 2 日 | 6,677 字
Sometimes it feels like medical mystery stories are everywhere.
有时感觉医学神秘故事无处不在。
Long COVID.
长新冠病毒。
Rare disorders.
罕见疾病。
The New York Times’ ever-popular “Diagnosis” column.
《纽约时报》广受欢迎的“诊断”专栏。
It’s a genre to itself, and by now we know that genre’s beats: onset, frustration, revelation, closure.
它本身就是一种流派，现在我们知道这种流派的节拍：开始、挫折、启示、结束。
Tom Scocca’s own experience, though, enjoys no such arc.
然而，汤姆·斯科卡自己的经历却没有这样的经历。
From the moment he notices symptoms—innocuous at first, but not for long—uncertainty is his only constant.
从他注意到症状的那一刻起——一开始无害，但不会持续太久——不确定性就是他唯一不变的。
“I’ve told the story over and over, to various doctors, till it almost sounds like a coherent narrative,” he writes.
“我向不同的医生一遍又一遍地讲述这个故事，直到它听起来几乎是一个连贯的叙述，”他写道。
It’s not a coherent narrative, of course.
当然，这不是一个连贯的叙述。
That’s not how these things work, no matter what similar stories may suggest.
不管类似的故事暗示什么，事情都不是这样运作的。
But Scocca meets the incoherence head-on with spare, even wry, prose: “I started buying five-pound bags of rice from H Mart instead of ten-pound ones.
但斯科卡用简洁甚至讽刺的散文直面这种语无伦次的情况：“我开始从 H Mart 购买五磅袋大米，而不是十磅袋。
Then I just started getting rice delivered.” His malady takes root during a professional down period, and financial dread lurks in the background here, making each new physical issue that much more harrowing.
然后我就开始送大米了。”他的病是在职业低迷时期扎根的，而财务上的恐惧潜伏在他的背景中，使每一个新的身体问题都变得更加痛苦。
He finishes a recruiting call before going to the ER; he has a phone interview hours after he wakes up from a muscle biopsy.
在去急诊室之前，他完成了招聘电话；他从肌肉活检中醒来几个小时后就接受了电话采访。
All the while, his body betrays him in novel and confounding ways.
一直以来，他的身体都以新颖而令人困惑的方式背叛了他。
That’s not to say he doesn’t find some measure of relief.
这并不是说他没有找到某种缓解措施。
He does.
他做到了。
What he doesn’t find is answers, which is exactly what makes this piece so destabilizing.
他找不到的是答案，这正是这部作品如此不稳定的原因。
“This is what disability advocates have said all along,” he writes, “not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times.” —PR
“这是残疾人倡导者一直以来所说的，”他写道，“但人们通常不这么认为：有能力的人和残疾人不是两种不同的人，而是不同时期的同一个人。” ——公关
## In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home.
## 1967 年，一名黑人和一名白人女性买了一套房子。
American Politics Would Never Be the Same.
美国政治将永远不会一样。
Zack Stanton | Politico Magazine | December 22, 2023 | 17,959 words
扎克·斯坦顿 |政治杂志 | 2023 年 12 月 22 日 | 17,959 字
The starting point for this mammoth feature by Zack Stanton is a little-known incident from the summer of 1967: a white mob tried with all their might to drive Carado and Ruby Bailey, an interracial couple, from the suburban Michigan neighborhood where they’d recently bought a new home.
扎克·斯坦顿 (Zack Stanton) 创作的这部长篇大片以 1967 年夏天发生的一件鲜为人知的事件为出发点：一群白人暴徒竭尽全力，试图将卡拉多 (Carado) 和鲁比·贝利 (Ruby Bailey) 这对跨种族夫妇从他们最近买了新房的密歇根郊区驱赶出来。
Drawing on interviews, public records, and press accounts, Stanton describes the horrors the Baileys and their daughter endured, including a cross burning, racist graffiti, and harassment by vigilante PTA moms who sound a whole lot like the women trying to ban books and marginalize transgender youth in schools today.
斯坦顿利用采访、公共记录和媒体报道，描述了贝利夫妇和他们的女儿所遭受的恐怖，包括焚烧十字架、种族主义涂鸦，以及家长教师协会（PTA）妈妈们的骚扰，这些妈妈们的声音听起来很像当今学校里试图禁书和边缘化跨性别青少年的女性。
But that’s not the whole story, or even half of it.
但这不是故事的全部，甚至不是一半。
In cinematic detail, Stanton shows how the battle over the Baileys’ home reached all the way to Washington, DC, where it might have shaped federal policy for the better if not for profound conservative backlash that instead helped usher in Republicanism as we know it today.
斯坦顿在电影细节中展示了贝利家族之战如何一路蔓延到华盛顿特区，如果不是因为保守派的强烈反对而导致我们今天所知道的共和主义的诞生，那么这场斗争可能会让联邦政策变得更好。
I gobbled up this thick slice of forgotten history and was moved by the turn at the end when Stanton lets his sources directly address Ruby, now 95, a widow, and still living in the home she refused to leave.
我狼吞虎咽地读完了这段被遗忘的历史，最后的转折让我感动不已，斯坦顿让他的消息来源直接向鲁比说话。鲁比现年 95 岁，是一位寡妇，仍然住在她拒绝离开的家中。
One source “admires your principle in the face of imminent danger,” Stanton writes.
斯坦顿写道，一位消息人士“钦佩你在面临迫在眉睫的危险时所坚持的原则”。
Another “wants people to understand that America isn’t simply a story of bad things that have happened; it’s the story of people trying to make things better.” Then there is the neighbor who watched from her window in ’67 and did nothing—today, she is ashamed.
另一个“希望人们明白，美国不仅仅是一个已经发生的坏事的故事；这是一个人们试图让事情变得更好的故事。”还有一位邻居，67 年从窗外观看，却什么也没做——今天，她感到羞愧。
“When I asked what she would say to you if given the chance,” Stanton tells Ruby, “she broke down in sobs, a half-century’s worth of pain tumbling out.” —SD
“当我问如果有机会她会对你说什么时，”斯坦顿告诉鲁比，“她失声痛哭，半个世纪的痛苦倾泻而出。” —SD
## The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty
## 发现自己有罪的陪审员
Michael Hall | Texas Monthly | January 16, 2024 | 9,962 words
迈克尔·霍尔 |德克萨斯月刊| 2024 年 1 月 16 日 | 9,962 字
In this riveting braided feature for Texas Monthly, Michael Hall unravels how it all went wrong for Carlos Jaile.
在《德克萨斯月刊》这篇引人入胜的编织特稿中，迈克尔·霍尔揭开了卡洛斯·贾伊勒的全部错误是如何发生的。
In the ’80s, Jaile had been living the American dream in Texas as a successful Kirby vacuum salesman who embraced the sales motto “persistence over resistance.” Suddenly, one day, the police showed up at his office to take him away, allegedly for raping a young girl.
八十年代，贾尔在德克萨斯州实现了美国梦，成为一名成功的柯比真空吸尘器销售员，他信奉“坚持战胜阻力”的销售座右铭。有一天，警察突然出现在他的办公室，将他带走，据称他强奸了一名年轻女孩。
Estella Ybarra sat on Jaile’s jury.
艾斯黛拉·伊巴拉 (Estella Ybarra) 是贾尔 (Jaile) 的陪审团成员。
She’d voted him guilty, but felt pressured into the decision by two fellow jurors—pushy white men who could not be talked down.
她投票判定他有罪，但在两名陪审员同事的压力下做出了这一决定，这两名陪审员都是咄咄逼人的白人，无法被说服。
Hall gives you all of this up front: we’ve got a miscarriage of justice, a remorseful juror, and a man incarcerated for decades for a crime he did not commit.
霍尔预先向您介绍了所有这些：我们有一个误判，一个悔恨的陪审员，以及一个因他没有犯下的罪行而被监禁了数十年的人。
We think we know what happened, but we don’t know precisely how it happened.
我们认为我们知道发生了什么，但我们并不确切知道它是如何发生的。
Hall’s brilliant pacing spurs your need to understand how egregious detective work, grievous police errors, and two loudmouth jurors put Jaile away for life plus 20 years; his exceptional storytelling rewards you for tracking Estella Ybarra as she confronts her conscience to embrace “persistence over resistance” to free an innocent man.
霍尔出色的节奏激发了你的好奇心，让你了解糟糕的侦探工作、严重的警察失误以及两名大言不惭的陪审员是如何将贾尔判处终身监禁加 20 年徒刑的；他出色的故事讲述让你追踪埃斯特拉·伊巴拉（Estella Ybarra），因为她面对自己的良心，拥抱“坚持而不是抵抗”，以释放一个无辜的人。
“Everyone involved in Carlos’s case found a reason to look the other way,” writes Hall.
“参与卡洛斯案件的每个人都找到了另眼相看的理由，”霍尔写道。
“Everyone, that is, except for one woman determined to do the right thing.” A wrongful conviction overturned is always a bittersweet read.
“每个人，除了一位决心做正确事的女性。”错误的信念被推翻，读起来总是苦乐参半。
And while the most beautiful thing is that Carlos Jaile does go free, it’s Hall’s deep craft that does justice to his story and to an emotional and poignant conclusion you will not forget.
虽然最美妙的事情是卡洛斯·贾尔（Carlos Jaile）确实获得了自由，但霍尔深厚的技艺才公正地诠释了他的故事，并给你带来了一个令人难忘的情感和辛酸的结局。
—KS
—KS
## Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand
## 犯罪团伙内部贩卖沙子
David A.
大卫·A.
Taylor | Scientific American | February 1, 2024 | 3,485 words
泰勒|科学美国人 | 2024 年 2 月 1 日 | 3,485 字
My favorite subplot of Barry?
《巴里》中我最喜欢的次要情节？
The romantic relationship between Chechen mafioso NoHo Hank and Bolivian crime boss Cristobal.
车臣黑手党诺霍·汉克和玻利维亚犯罪头目克里斯托瓦尔之间的浪漫关系。
In season four, ostensibly in an attempt to move away from criminal life, they decide to import sand.
在第四季中，表面上是为了摆脱犯罪生活，他们决定进口沙子。
When I watched the episode in which they hatch a plan, I’d thought it was an inspired comic bit; only once I read David A.
当我观看他们制定计划的那一集时，我以为这是一个充满灵感的喜剧片断；但事实并非如此。我只读过一次 David A.
Taylor’s story did I realize that sand mafias are very real.
泰勒的故事让我意识到沙黑手党是非常真实的。
Sand is one of the main ingredients in concrete, and given that construction worldwide has been booming for decades, we could run out of construction-grade sand by 2050.
沙子是混凝土的主要成分之一，鉴于数十年来全球建筑业的蓬勃发展，到 2050 年，我们可能会用完建筑级沙子。
In this piece, Taylor writes about the devastating impact of sand mining and looting on ecosystems that are already fragile, and on vulnerable communities in places like Mozambique and Kenya (and how one woman in Kenya’s Makueni County successfully fought the sand cartel in Nairobi and introduced a regulated, sustainable approach).
在这篇文章中，泰勒描述了采砂和掠夺对本已脆弱的生态系统以及莫桑比克和肯尼亚等地的脆弱社区造成的破坏性影响（以及肯尼亚马库埃尼县的一名妇女如何成功打击内罗毕的采砂卡特尔并引入了一种受监管的可持续方法）。
Stories of organized crime aside, it’s really the simple yet eye-opening details that make this piece, like the fact that China used more cement in just three years than the United States used in the entire 20th century.
撇开有组织犯罪的故事不谈，这件作品的真正组成部分是简单但令人大开眼界的细节，比如中国在短短三年内使用的水泥比美国整个 20 世纪使用的水泥还要多。
Or that half of Morocco’s sand is illegally mined.
或者摩洛哥一半的沙子是非法开采的。
Or that sand from rivers and lakebeds, not coastal areas, is ideal for building, and builders who skimp on better sand end up constructing buildings that are flat-out dangerous (just look at the destruction in Turkey and Syria from the February 2023 earthquake, one expert tells Taylor).
或者来自河流和湖床而不是沿海地区的沙子是建筑的理想选择，而那些吝惜使用更好沙子的建筑商最终会建造出完全危险的建筑物（一位专家告诉泰勒，看看 2023 年 2 月地震在土耳其和叙利亚造成的破坏就知道了）。
A fascinating story on a global issue that more people should be talking about.
这是一个关于全球问题的引人入胜的故事，应该让更多人谈论。
—CLR
—CLR
## February
##二月
## The Venture
## 风险投资
Christopher Johnston and Erin Quinlan | Cosmopolitan | January 30, 2024 | 3,899 words
克里斯托弗·约翰斯顿和艾琳·昆兰 |大都会 | 2024 年 1 月 30 日 | 3,899 字
When someone first suggested that her boyfriend might be trafficking her, Kayla Goedinghaus was incredulous.
当有人第一次暗示她的男朋友可能会拐卖她时，凯拉·戈丁豪斯表示难以置信。
She was being abused—beaten, drugged, denied money—but trafficked?
她受到虐待——殴打、下药、不给钱——但还是被拐卖了？
In time, as Christopher Johnston and Erin Quinlan detail in this gripping story, Goedinghaus came to understand the truth about her situation, which was far from unusual.
随着克里斯托弗·约翰斯顿和艾琳·昆兰在这个扣人心弦的故事中的详细描述，戈丁豪斯逐渐了解了她处境的真相，这绝非不寻常。
“As of 2020, an estimated 39 percent of sex-trafficking victims in this country were brought into it by intimate partners,” Johnston and Quinlan write.
“截至 2020 年，估计该国 39% 的性贩运受害者是由亲密伴侣带入的，”约翰斯顿和昆兰写道。
“Through physical force, manipulation, or fraud, those victims are compelled to engage in sex acts for the trafficker’s benefit.
“通过暴力、操纵或欺诈，这些受害者被迫为了贩运者的利益而进行性行为。
That could mean posing for nudes he secretly sells to cover his gambling debts or sleeping with random men off the street so he can score drugs or letting the landlord watch sex acts through the bedroom window as a form of rent payment.” In Goedinghaus’s case, her boyfriend, Rick, was peddling her as a commodity among his friends, who allegedly included powerful men such as Trammell Crow Jr., an heir to a massive real-estate fortune (and brother to Harlan Crow, the conservative donor who’s been bankrolling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s lifestyle for years).
这可能意味着他秘密出售裸照以偿还赌债，或者在街上与随机的男人睡觉，这样他就可以获得毒品，或者让房东通过卧室的窗户观看性行为，作为支付租金的一种形式。”在戈丁豪斯的案件中，她的男友里克（Rick）在他的朋友们中兜售她作为商品，据称这些朋友中包括像小特拉梅尔·克劳（Trammell Crow Jr.）这样有权有势的人，他是巨额房地产财富的继承人（也是哈伦·克劳（Harlan Crow）的兄弟，哈兰·克劳是保守派捐助者，多年来一直为最高法院法官克拉伦斯·托马斯（Clarence Thomas）的生活方式提供资金。
This piece, then, serves as a corrective to widespread assumptions about trafficking, including who perpetrates it and who is hurt by it.
那么，这篇文章可以纠正有关人口贩运的广泛假设，包括谁实施了人口贩运以及谁受到了人口贩运的伤害。
Narratively speaking, the story’s crux is an unlikely friendship.
从叙事角度来说，故事的核心是一段不太可能的友谊。
Before Goedinghaus, Rick trafficked his ex-wife, Julia Hubbard, and the two women encountering each other changed everything—indeed, it made this feature possible.
在戈丁豪斯之前，里克贩卖了他的前妻朱莉娅·哈伯德，这两个女人的相遇改变了一切——事实上，它让这一功能成为可能。
“Setting eyes on each other for the first time,” Johnston and Quinlan write, “Julia and Kayla were zapped with an eerie sense of mutual recognition, as though they were standing on opposite sides of a looking glass: Kayla as the new Julia and Julia as the former Kayla.
“第一次对视时，”约翰斯顿和昆兰写道，“朱莉娅和凯拉都被一种奇怪的相互认可感所震撼，就好像她们站在镜子的两侧：凯拉是新的朱莉娅，朱莉娅是前凯拉。
They even looked alike.” —SD
他们甚至长得很像。” —SD
## A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
## 一名青少年致命地坠入伦敦黑社会
Patrick Radden Keefe | The New Yorker | February 5, 2024 | 14,311 words
帕特里克·拉登·基夫 | 帕特里克·拉登·基夫纽约客 | 2024 年 2 月 5 日 | 14,311 字
I didn’t read Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing when it first came out.
帕特里克·拉登·基夫（Patrick Radden Keefe）的书《什么也不说》刚出版时我没有读过。
Not because I wasn’t interested—rather, I knew that I was going to like it so much, that it was going to be so annoyingly good, that I needed to crack it open when I had time to get lost in its pages.
不是因为我不感兴趣——而是，我知道我会非常喜欢它，它会好得令人恼火，当我有时间沉浸在它的书页中时，我需要把它打开。
It was one of those leave-me-alone-I’m-reading books.
这是一本让我独自一人在读的书。
In the case of PRK’s latest feature for The New Yorker, I waited two days to dig in: I finished a long, complicated edit, a bunch of admin work, and household chores, then found myself with a solid stretch of an hour to just read.
就 PRK 为《纽约客》撰写的最新专题而言，我等了两天才开始深入研究：我完成了漫长而复杂的编辑、一堆管理工作和家务活，然后发现自己有整整一个小时的时间来阅读。
The story is about Zac Brettler, a young man in London who posed as the son of a Russian oligarch and wound up dead in the Thames after jumping from the balcony of an apartment owned by a gangster; his death appeared to be suicide, but it might have been something else, and we’ll never know for sure because the gangster, who was the last person to see Brettler alive, is now dead too.
故事讲述的是伦敦的年轻人扎克·布雷特勒 (Zac Brettler)，他冒充俄罗斯寡头的儿子，从黑帮拥有的公寓的阳台上跳下，最终死在泰晤士河中。他的死亡似乎是自杀，但也可能是其他原因，我们永远无法确定，因为最后一个看到布雷特勒活着的歹徒现在也死了。
As I suspected, I had to read the piece in one gulp.
正如我所怀疑的，我不得不一口气读完这篇文章。
Every inch of it is fascinating: the twists and turns of Brettler’s story, the portrait of London as a playground for conmen and fabulists, the revelations that stunned Brettler’s family after he was gone.
它的每一处都令人着迷：布雷特勒故事的曲折、伦敦作为骗子和寓言家游乐场的描绘、布雷特勒去世后令他的家人震惊的真相。
Needless to say, when you can, clear your own plate and get to reading.
不用说，当你可以的时候，清理你自己的盘子并开始阅读。
—SD
—SD
## The Road to 1948
## 通往 1948 年之路
Moderated by Emily Bazelon | The New York Times Magazine | February 1, 2024 | 9,019 words
由 Emily Bazelon 主持 |纽约时报杂志 | 2024 年 2 月 1 日 | 9,019 字
I was visiting my parents this week, helping them pack up the home where they’ve lived for almost 39 years, and one evening, our conversation turned to Gaza.
这周我去看望我的父母，帮助他们收拾他们住了近 39 年的房子，一天晚上，我们的话题转向了加沙。
While we didn’t see eye to eye on everything, we agreed that one of the most important steps that we as outside witnesses to this tragedy can take is to direct our attention beyond the headlines, statistics, and slogans.
虽然我们在所有问题上意见不一致，但我们一致认为，作为这场悲剧的外部见证人，我们可以采取的最重要步骤之一就是将我们的注意力转移到头条新闻、统计数据和口号之外。
We must look at the roots of the conflict, but not as they’ve been sanitized and presented to Western audiences for far too long—we must look at the roots as they actually are, ugly and gnarly.
我们必须正视冲突的根源，但不是因为它们已经被净化并呈现给西方观众太久了——我们必须正视它们的本质，丑陋而粗糙。
A perfect starting point is this discussion, moderated by Emily Bazelon, which examines the period between 1920, when the British mandate for Palestine was established, and 1948, when Palestinians were forced from their homes to make way for the state of Israel.
艾米丽·巴泽隆 (Emily Bazelon) 主持的这次讨论是一个完美的起点，它回顾了从 1920 年英国对巴勒斯坦托管地成立到 1948 年巴勒斯坦人被迫离开家园为以色列国让路之间的时期。
I read the piece after the conversation with my parents and was particularly moved by Nadim Bawalsa’s description of his family’s experience of the Nakba.
在与父母交谈后，我读了这篇文章，特别被纳迪姆·巴瓦尔萨 (Nadim Bawalsa) 对他家人在灾难浩劫中的经历的描述所感动。
“Since December 1947, no one in my family has entered our home in Jerusalem,” Bawalsa writes.
“自 1947 年 12 月以来，我家里没有人进入过我们在耶路撒冷的家，”巴瓦尔萨写道。
“My grandparents were able to briefly return to Palestine with their children to live with my grandmother’s family in Ramallah during the period of Jordanian rule until 1967, but they were not allowed to go to the west side of Jerusalem.
“在约旦统治期间直到1967年，我的祖父母能够带着孩子短暂返回巴勒斯坦，与我祖母的家人一起住在拉马拉，直到1967年，但他们不被允许前往耶路撒冷西侧。
Following 1967, we’ve only been able to go back as U.S. citizens—tourists.” Now, as I tape up boxes full of cherished objects, I can’t stop thinking: my parents will miss their home, but at least they are choosing to leave it.
1967 年之后，我们只能以美国公民——游客的身份回去。”现在，当我用胶带把装满珍贵物品的盒子粘起来时，我不停地想：我的父母会想念他们的家，但至少他们选择离开它。
—SD
—SD
## A Family Ranch, Swallowed Up in the Madness of the Border
## 一个家庭牧场，被边境的疯狂吞没
Eli Saslow | The New York Times | February 18, 2024 | 4,159 words
伊莱·萨斯洛 |纽约时报 | 2024 年 2 月 18 日 | 4,159 字
In December, Tucson’s Border Patrol saw nearly 20,000 migrants each week, marking a 300 percent surge from the previous year.
12 月，图森边境巡逻队每周都会看到近 20,000 名移民，比去年增加了 300%。
Just south, near the US-Mexico border, lies Chilton Ranch: a sprawling expanse of 50,000 cattle-grazing acres in the Arizona desert owned by the same family for four generations and currently managed by Jim and Sue, a couple in their 80s.
就在南边，靠近美国和墨西哥边境的地方，坐落着奇尔顿牧场：位于亚利桑那州沙漠中，占地 50,000 英亩的牧场，由同一家族拥有四代人，目前由吉姆和苏这对 80 多岁的夫妇管理。
Five-and-a-half miles of their ranch run along the border wall.
他们的牧场沿着边境墙绵延五英里半。
Here, footprints in the dirt reveal tales of survival and desperation.
在这里，泥土中的脚印揭示了生存和绝望的故事。
Accompanied by Erin Schaff’s emotive photography, Eli Saslow’s dispatch from this family ranch is masterfully reported, showing what its owners and cowboys encounter each day and night: Young children screaming for help, or arriving at their doorstep, their parents dead.
伴随着艾琳·沙夫 (Erin Schaff) 充满情感的摄影，伊莱·萨斯洛 (Eli Saslow) 从这个家庭牧场发来的消息得到了巧妙的报道，展示了农场主和牛仔们每天晚上所遇到的情况：年幼的孩子尖叫着求救，或者到达家门口时父母已经去世。
Guides paid by the Sinaloa cartel, leading people through one of numerous gaps in the wall.
由锡那罗亚贩毒集团付费的导游，带领人们穿过墙上的众多缺口之一。
Women who’ve been assaulted, mistaking their home for a Border Patrol station.
遭受袭击的女性将自己的家误认为是边境巡逻站。
A pregnant Sudanese woman, possibly in labor, exposed to the cold on a 36-degree night.
一名可能正在临产的苏丹孕妇在 36 度的夜晚暴露在寒冷中。
Migrants, from all over the world, caught on camera footage traversing some of the 150 smuggling trails on the property.
来自世界各地的移民在该地区 150 条走私路线中的一些走私路线被摄像机拍摄到。
As many as 250 people a day wander onto their ranch from remote entry points—a microcosm of a nation facing an immigration crisis and humanitarian disaster—and the Chiltons are in the midst of it all.
每天有多达 250 人从偏远的入境点漫步到他们的牧场——这是一个面临移民危机和人道主义灾难的国家的缩影——而奇尔顿一家就身处其中。
While Saslow paints a dismal bigger picture, the ordinary individuals in this story show compassion, even in the threat of their own safety and security.
虽然萨斯洛描绘了一幅惨淡的大图景，但这个故事中的普通人表现出了同情心，即使他们自己的安全和保障受到威胁。
Many pieces on immigration feel abstract, impersonal; this is quite the opposite.
许多关于移民的文章让人感觉抽象、缺乏人情味；这恰恰相反。
—CLR
—CLR
## March
## 三月
## Inside Ukraine’s Wartime Salons
## 乌克兰战时沙龙内部
Sophia Panych | Allure | February 22, 2024 | 4,531 words
索菲亚·潘尼奇 |倾城| 2024 年 2 月 22 日 | 4,531 字
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, beauty salons in the country have become symbols of perseverance and resistance.
随着乌克兰战争进入第三个年头，该国的美容院已成为毅力和抵抗的象征。
Salon owners go to work despite the constant threat of missile strikes.
尽管不断受到导弹袭击的威胁，沙龙老板仍然继续工作。
They’ve moved their businesses underground.
他们已将业务转移到地下。
When they have no access to electricity and water, they run on generators and use bottled water.
当他们无法获得电力和水时，他们依靠发电机并使用瓶装水。
They’ve also adapted to working in the dark, painting clients’ nails under the glow of headlamps.
他们还适应了在黑暗中工作，在头灯的光芒下给客户涂指甲油。
Unfazed by air-raid sirens, they’re accustomed to calculating risks.
他们不受空袭警报的影响，习惯于计算风险。
Sirens can sound up to a dozen times a day, a cosmetologist from Zaporizhzhia, a city close to the frontlines, tells Sophia Panych: “At that rate, it would take all day to finish just one facial.” In this piece, Panych asks, “Does beauty even have a place in a society at war?” For many salon owners in central and eastern Ukraine, the answer is an emphatic yes.
来自靠近前线的扎波罗热城市的一位美容师告诉索菲亚·潘尼奇：“按照这个速度，完成一次面部护理就需要一整天的时间。”在这篇文章中，潘尼奇问道：“在战争社会中，美还有一席之地吗？”对于乌克兰中部和东部的许多沙龙老板来说，答案是肯定的。
Many Ukrainian women have felt a deep sense of patriotism and duty to jumpstart the economy, while salon patrons get their hair cut and nails done to take control—and find normalcy—in an unstable time.
许多乌克兰妇女都感受到了强烈的爱国主义和推动经济发展的责任感，而沙龙顾客则剪发和做指甲，以在不稳定的时期控制局面并找到常态。
“Every blowout, every massage, every pedicure they provide is a statement of defiance against an enemy that wishes to see them destroyed,” writes Panych.
潘尼奇写道：“他们提供的每一次吹气、每一次按摩、每一次修脚都是对那些希望看到他们被摧毁的敌人的蔑视。”
They’re also communal acts of self-care.
它们也是自我保健的公共行为。
A longtime beauty editor with Ukrainian roots, Panych had been looking for a way to write about the country since 2022, but she hadn’t found an appropriate angle.
Panych 是一位有着乌克兰血统的长期美容编辑，自 2022 年以来一直在寻找一种方式来报道这个国家，但她一直没有找到合适的角度。
But her reporting here, on the unexpected resilience of Ukraine’s beauty industry, comes together beautifully in an inspiring piece on the courage and resourcefulness of ordinary citizens in a time of war.
但她在这里的报道，关于乌克兰美容行业出人意料的恢复力，完美地融合在一篇鼓舞人心的文章中，讲述了战争时期普通公民的勇气和足智多谋。
—CLR
—CLR
## Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain
## F1 天鹅绒幕布背后
Kate Wagner | Road & Track | March 1, 2024 | 5,474 words
凯特·瓦格纳 |公路与轨道 | 2024 年 3 月 1 日 | 5,474 字
I can’t claim with 100% certainty that this is the first time Longreads has ever recommended a piece that doesn’t actually exist, but 99% is good enough.
我不能百分百肯定地说这是 Longreads 第一次推荐实际上不存在的文章，但 99% 就足够了。
In case you missed the media scandal of the week, Road and Track published this piece, then immediately nuked it.
如果你错过了本周的媒体丑闻，Road and Track 发表了这篇文章，然后立即对其进行了攻击。
Pulled it right off the site.
直接把它从网站上拉下来了。
(Hence the fact that this writeup links to an archived version via the Wayback Machine.) Why did they do it?
（因此，这篇文章通过 Wayback Machine 链接到存档版本。） 他们为什么这样做？
Hard to say.
很难说。
The editor in chief claims it was assigned before he became EIC, and he would have killed it in utero had he known about it.
主编声称这是在他成为 EIC 之前分配的，如果他知道的话，他会在子宫内杀死它。
Either way, you won’t find a better example of the Streisand Effect this year.
不管怎样，今年你找不到比史翠珊效应更好的例子了。
The premise was simple: R&T sent Kate Wagner—who cycling fans may know from her newsletter Derailleur, and others might know from her blog McMansion Hell—on a press junket to a Formula 1 race in Austin, Texas.
前提很简单：R&T 派凯特·瓦格纳（Kate Wagner）参加新闻发布会，前往德克萨斯州奥斯汀参加一级方程式比赛。
This was, as Wagner reminds the reader about fiftyleven times, a setup for culture shock.
正如瓦格纳五十一次提醒读者的那样，这是文化冲击的一个设置。
Wagner is used to abiding strict ethical guidelines while covering professional cycling; the petrochemical company funding the junket sent her first class to Austin.
瓦格纳习惯于在报道职业自行车运动时遵守严格的道德准则；资助中介人的石化公司将她的头等舱送到了奥斯汀。
Wagner’s a socialist; the F1 paddock is a scene of ultrawealth.
瓦格纳是一名社会主义者； F1 围场是一个超级财富的场景。
The ironic juxtapositions continue.
讽刺的并置仍在继续。
But it’s really the piece’s gonzo approach and Wagner’s unrelentingly crisp descriptive writing that makes the piece work, even after the me-versus-them stance wears thin.
但这确实是这部作品的奇闻趣事方法和瓦格纳坚持不懈的清晰描述性写作使得这部作品成功，即使在我与他们的立场逐渐消失之后。
“The unfurling of the apparatus of the setup, groups peeling back one by one until there are only these alien cars, these technological marvels kissing the ground,” she writes of the pre-race flurry.
“装置的展开，各组一一地剥离，直到只剩下这些外星汽车，这些技术奇迹亲吻地面，”她在谈到赛前的混乱时写道。
“Before the heartbeat, they respirated.” She applies this where, at least for a car magazine, it really matters: the cars, the racing, the racers.
“在心跳之前，他们就开始呼吸了。”她将这一点应用到了真正重要的地方，至少对于汽车杂志而言：汽车、赛车、赛车手。
Had this story been only an eat-the-rich critique, sure, it may still have gotten a flurry of attention.
当然，如果这个故事只是一篇关于吃富人的评论，它可能仍然会引起一阵关注。
But what makes it a great piece, a memorable piece, is how Wagner gets inside the magic of spectacle.
但它之所以成为一部伟大的作品、一部令人难忘的作品，是因为瓦格纳如何融入奇观的魔力。
—PR
——公关
## The Squatters of Beverly Hills
## 比佛利山庄的占屋者
Bridget Read | Curbed | March 12, 2024 | 6,005 words
布里奇特读|遏制| 2024 年 3 月 12 日 | 6,005 字
When I first started reading this piece, I wasn’t sure whether to be appalled or amazed.
当我第一次开始读这篇文章时，我不确定是震惊还是惊讶。
Last September, realtor John A.
去年九月，房地产经纪人 John A.
Woodward IV listed 1316 Beverly Grove Place for just under $5 million.
伍德沃德四世 (Woodward IV) 以略低于 500 万美元的价格挂牌出售比弗利格罗夫广场 1316 号。
When the pool guy asked whether the new owners might keep him on, Woodward knew something was up—no one had bought the house.
当泳池管理员问新主人是否可以让他留下时，伍德沃德知道出事了——没人买这栋房子。
Raucous parties complete with thumping bass were said to take place five nights a week.
据说每周有五个晚上举行喧闹的派对，伴着重重的低音。
Jittery, glassy-eyed partygoers spotted in daylight signaled debauchery.
光天化日之下，参加派对的人神情紧张、目光呆滞，这表明他们正在放荡。
Unsatisfied with a “suggested donation” as the price of admission, the cons started to rent out rooms in the mansion they didn’t own.
由于对“建议捐赠”作为入场费不满意，犯人开始出租不属于他们的豪宅中的房间。
LeBron James—who lives nearby—was among a growing number of concerned neighbors.
住在附近的勒布朗·詹姆斯是越来越多关心此事的邻居之一。
Who was living at this Beverly Hills property?
谁住在比佛利山庄的这处房产里？
For Curbed, Bridget Read spins a cinematic story of deception and intrigue worthy of a blockbuster movie.
布里奇特·里德 (Bridget Read) 在《Curbed》中讲述了一个关于欺骗和阴谋的电影故事，值得一部大片。
This piece features multiple grifters experienced in a variety of scams, and Read does a terrific job unraveling the twisted tale for gobsmacked readers incredulous at the perpetrators’ audacity.
这篇文章讲述了多名经历过各种骗局的骗子，里德出色地为那些对犯罪者的胆大妄为感到惊讶的读者解开了这个扭曲的故事。
“The latest accused fraudsters to take up residence were louder, more obvious, and more desperate than their predecessors,” she writes, “but the mansion had long been in the possession of people who got it by lying and stealing.” Let’s hope The House of Deception eventually comes to a movie theater near you.
她写道：“最新被指控的诈骗犯比他们的前任更响亮、更明显、更绝望，但这座豪宅长期以来一直由那些通过撒谎和盗窃获得的人所有。”希望《欺骗之家》最终能来到您附近的电影院。
Maybe they can get Quentin Tarantino to direct.
也许他们可以让昆汀·塔伦蒂诺执导。
—KS
—KS
## The Opus Dei Diaries
## 主业团日记
Antonia Cundy | Financial Times | March 16, 2024 | 7,704 words
安东尼娅·康迪 |金融时报| 2024 年 3 月 16 日 | 7,704 字
Teena, Anne Marie, Monica: the three former Opus Dei assistant numeraries at the heart of Antonia Cundy’s investigation are the first women to speak publicly about their treatment in the Western world.
蒂娜、安妮·玛丽、莫妮卡：安东尼娅·康迪调查的核心人物，三位前主业团助理助理，是第一批在西方世界公开谈论她们所受待遇的女性。
Their stories are not unique; Cundy interviewed 40 former and current Opus Dei members for this piece, just part of her meticulous research into the decades of exploitation carried out by this Catholic organization, a fictionally heightened version of which many learned first about through The Da Vinci Code.
他们的故事并不独特；康迪在这篇文章中采访了 40 名主业团前任和现任成员，这只是她对这个天主教组织几十年来所进行的剥削的细致研究的一部分，这是一个虚构的强化版本，许多人首先是通过《达芬奇密码》了解到的。
Her case studies are now in their 50s and 60s, but as girls, they gave their lives to Opus Dei as domestic workers, part of an army of free labor used to prop up the powerful institution.
她的案例研究现在已经是50多岁和60多岁了，但作为女孩，她们作为家政工人为主业团献出了自己的生命，成为用来支撑这个强大机构的自由劳动力大军的一部分。
It may not be Dan Brown, but Cundy still hints at mysterious dealings (such as how Opus Dei’s massive London headquarters near Kensington Palace are owned by the Netherhall Educational Association, whose trustees are all Opus Dei members, despite no reference in the name).
可能不是丹·布朗，但康迪仍然暗示着神秘的交易（例如主业会在肯辛顿宫附近的大型伦敦总部如何由尼瑟霍尔教育协会拥有，尽管名称中没有提及，但其受托人都是主业会成员）。
However, the primary focus here remains the women behind the scenes who have kept operations running through the mundane of cooking and cleaning, and woven among their narratives is Opus Dei’s history as young conscriptees learn it themselves—a well-honed piece of indoctrination.
然而，这里的主要焦点仍然是幕后的女性，她们在烹饪和清洁的平凡过程中维持着运作，而她们的叙述中交织着主业团的历史，这是年轻应征入伍者自己学习的——一段经过精心磨练的灌输。
Domestic work may now be shared, but as Cundy writes, it was only in 2021 that “Monica and 42 other former assistant numeraries from Latin America accused Opus Dei of enslavement in Argentina.” The shield of mystery around Opus Dei still needs to be fully removed.
家务活现在可能是分担的，但正如康迪所写，直到 2021 年，“莫妮卡和其他 42 名来自拉丁美洲的前助理助理才指责主业会在阿根廷奴役。”主业团周围的神秘盾牌仍然需要完全移除。
May investigations like this one keep chipping away.
愿这样的调查不断取得进展。
—CW
—CW
## “To the Train Lady with Dark Brown Hair …”: Extraordinary Stories of Four Couples who Found Love via Small Ads
##《致深棕色头发的火车女士……》：四对通过小广告找到爱情的情侣的非凡故事
Amelia Tait | The Guardian | March 16, 2024 | 3,828 words
阿米莉亚·泰特 |卫报| 2024 年 3 月 16 日 | 3,828 字
Imagine an encounter that changes your life, a random meeting in which you find your person.
想象一次改变你生活的邂逅，一次偶然的相遇，你在其中找到了自己的人。
Amelia Tait’s fun piece highlighting four couples who met by chance was exactly what I needed.
阿米莉亚·泰特（Amelia Tait）的有趣作品突出了四对偶然相遇的情侣，这正是我所需要的。
Tait’s story surprises as much as it entertains.
泰特的故事既令人惊奇又有趣。
Did you know that placing ads to find that missed connection goes back at least 300 years?
您是否知道通过投放广告来查找丢失的连接至少可以追溯到 300 年前？
“Though he may not have been the first, Samuel Reeves did it in 1709,” writes Tait.
“尽管塞缪尔·里夫斯可能不是第一个，但他在 1709 年就做到了，”泰特写道。
“Writing in the British periodical Tatler, Reeves sought the attention of a woman he had helped out of a boat.
“里夫斯在英国期刊《Tatler》上撰文，寻求一位他帮助下船的女士的注意。
He ‘desire[d] to know where he may wait on her to disclose a matter of concern,’ he said, and provided an address where he could be reached.” Tait profiles four couples who—despite missteps, redirections, and the randomness of life—managed to reconnect and begin a long-term relationship.
他说，他‘想知道在哪里可以等她透露他关心的问题’，并提供了一个可以联系到他的地址。”泰特介绍了四对夫妇，尽管他们经历了失误、重新定位和生活的随机性，但他们还是成功地重新建立了联系并开始了长期的关系。
Each is worthy of a Hallmark movie but together, these stories are much more than just a series of meet-cutes.
每个故事都值得成为霍尔马克电影，但放在一起，这些故事不仅仅是一系列可爱的相遇。
This piece is about the thrill of possibility as it is about the couples themselves; it’s about taking a risk in striking up a conversation, something that happens less and less often as we hide in plain sight behind our mobile devices.
这篇文章是关于可能性的兴奋，就像它是关于夫妻本身一样。这是关于冒险进行对话，当我们隐藏在移动设备后面时，这种情况越来越少发生。
After all, you can’t lock eyes with your special-someone-to-be if they’re locked on your phone.
毕竟，如果你的特别的人锁在你的手机上，你就无法与他们目光对视。
—KS
—KS
## April
##四月
## ‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza
## “薰衣草”：人工智能机器指挥以色列对加沙的狂轰滥炸
Yuval Abraham | +972 and Local Call | April 3, 2024 | 8,066 words
尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕 | +972 和本地电话 | 2024 年 4 月 3 日 | 8,066 字
The biggest news out of Gaza this week was the deaths of seven aid workers affiliated with the non-profit organization World Central Kitchen.
本周加沙最大的新闻是非营利组织世界中央厨房的七名援助人员死亡。
The incident was nothing short of perverse: Israel targeted and killed people trying to make a dent in the imminent famine that Israel itself has engineered as part of its strategy to demoralize and destroy, in whole or in part*, the Palestinian population.
这一事件完全是反常的：以色列瞄准并杀害了试图减轻迫在眉睫的饥荒的人们，以色列自己策划了这场饥荒，作为其整体或部分*巴勒斯坦人民士气低落和毁灭的战略的一部分。
(*Yes, this is a reference to the international community’s codified definition of genocide.) Perverse was the word that again came to mind when, shortly after the attack on WCK, +972 and Local Call published a blockbuster investigation revealing the extent of Israel’s reliance on artificial intelligence to select targets in Gaza for assassination.
（*是的，这是对国际社会对种族灭绝的成文定义的引用。）在 WCK 袭击事件发生后不久，+972 和 Local Call 发表了一项轰动一时的调查，揭示了以色列在加沙选择暗杀目标时对人工智能的依赖程度，“反常”这个词再次浮现在脑海中。
Except select and assassination make it sound like the AI systems are precise, which they decidedly are not.
除了选择和暗杀听起来人工智能系统很精确，但事实并非如此。
Lavender, as the main program is called, “clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants” in the early weeks of the siege, and “the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based.” Israel is also using AI—including a system named, I kid you not, “Where’s Daddy?”—to track targets into their homes and then drop bombs, no matter the risk of collateral damage.
主要计划的名称为“拉文德”，在围困的最初几周内，“将多达 37,000 名巴勒斯坦人列为可疑武装分子”，并且“军队全面批准军官采用拉文德的杀戮名单，无需彻底检查机器做出这些选择的原因或检查其所依据的原始情报数据。”以色列也在使用人工智能——包括一个名为“爸爸在哪里？”的系统——跟踪目标进入他们的家，然后投下炸弹，不管附带损害的风险如何。
Which is to say, no matter the risk of killing other people who happen to be in the home, including children.
也就是说，无论是否有杀死恰好在家中的其他人（包括儿童）的风险。
As technology journalist Sam Biddle wisely put it on social media, this essential investigation, one of the finest published since the war began, shows that “the value of military ‘AI’ systems …
正如科技记者萨姆·比德尔在社交媒体上明智地指出的那样，这项重要调查是自战争开始以来发表的最好的调查之一，它表明“军事‘人工智能’系统的价值......
doesn’t lie in decision-making, but in the ability to use the sheen of computerized ‘intelligence’ to justify the actions you already wanted.” —SD
不在于决策，而在于利用计算机‘智能’的光芒来证明你已经想要的行动的合理性的能力。” —SD
## The Great Serengeti Land Grab
## 伟大的塞伦盖蒂土地掠夺
Stephanie McCrummen | The Atlantic | April 8, 2024 | 8,385 words
斯蒂芬妮·麦克鲁门 |大西洋 | 2024 年 4 月 8 日 | 8,385 字
The pastoral, semi-nomadic Maasai have lived on their land in northern Tanzania since the 17th century.
自 17 世纪以来，半游牧牧民马赛人就生活在坦桑尼亚北部的土地上。
But under the guise of conservation and modernization, the Tanzanian government is resettling the tribe, destroying their compounds and seizing their cattle—in other words, erasing their traditional way of life.
但在保护和现代化的幌子下，坦桑尼亚政府正在重新安置该部落，摧毁他们的住所并扣押他们的牲畜，换句话说，消除他们的传统生活方式。
This makes way for ecotourism, carbon offsets, and supposed conservationist efforts that work toward the goal set by global leaders to conserve 30 percent of the planet’s surface by 2030.
这为生态旅游、碳补偿和所谓的环境保护主义努力让路，这些努力致力于实现全球领导人设定的到 2030 年保护地球表面 30% 的目标。
But is the violent displacement of an Indigenous group, one that has sustained the Serengeti ecosystem and its lush grasslands over time, necessary for such environmental progress?
但是，随着时间的推移，维持塞伦盖蒂生态系统及其茂密草原的原住民群体的暴力流离失所对于这种环境进步是必要的吗？
Setting aside this land for “conservation” also means fueling a lucrative safari industry that still sells a romanticized version of Africa, catering to billionaire trophy hunters, and partnering with powerful foreign interests, including the Dubai royal family (for whom land has been annexed as a private hunting playground).
留出这片土地用于“保护”还意味着推动利润丰厚的狩猎业，该行业仍然在销售浪漫化的非洲，迎合亿万富翁战利品猎人的需求，并与包括迪拜王室在内的强大外国利益集团合作（土地已被吞并为私人狩猎游乐场）。
This story is eye-opening and upsetting, and Stephanie McCrummen’s reporting is admirable: she balances big players, sweeping actions, and power moves with smaller details and quiet telling moments.
这个故事令人大开眼界，令人心烦意乱，斯蒂芬妮·麦克鲁门的报道令人钦佩：她平衡了大人物、大范围的行动和权力行动与较小的细节和安静的讲述时刻。
But it’s the emotional narrative weaved within—of one Maasai man, Songoyo, who navigates terrain that was once his home—that is most effective here.
但这里最有效的还是马赛人桑戈约（Songoyo）所编织的情感叙事，他在曾经是自己家乡的土地上航行。
You’ll likely come to this piece to understand the larger humanitarian crisis that has unfolded, but leave it stunned by McCrummen’s gorgeous writing, which centers the journey of one herder as he feels and watches his community and culture slip away.
读这篇文章时，你可能会了解已经展开的更大的人道主义危机，但麦克鲁门精彩的写作会让你感到震惊，它以一位牧民的旅程为中心，感受并看着他的社区和文化消失。
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## The Cloud Under the Sea
## 海底的云
Josh Dzieza | The Verge | April 16, 2024 | 8,856 words
乔什·吉扎 |边缘| 2024 年 4 月 16 日 | 8,856 字
I wouldn’t call myself a hardware geek, but lately I’ve been fascinated by stories that help me understand and appreciate the infrastructure that is essential for modern society to function.
我不会称自己为硬件极客，但最近我对帮助我理解和欣赏现代社会运转所必需的基础设施的故事着迷。
Hardware that physically sits somewhere on this Earth, hidden away and inert and seemingly lifeless, like the servers in a data center on the outskirts of Dublin that store Ireland’s memories.
物理上位于地球上某个地方的硬件，隐藏起来，惰性的，看似没有生命，就像都柏林郊区的数据中心中存储爱尔兰记忆的服务器一样。
Or the expansive networks of underwater cable, traversing 800,000 miles along the ocean floor, that run the internet.
或者是运行互联网的、沿着海底穿越 800,000 英里的广阔水下电缆网络。
This immersive feature by Josh Dzieza, packaged with art by Kristen Radtke and photography by Go Takayama, dives deeper into the latter, weaving a riveting account of a crew aboard the Ocean Link, one of 22 cable maintenance ships stationed around the world, that raced to repair a broken cable after the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011.
这部由 Josh Dzieza 创作的沉浸式故事片，搭配 Kristen Radtke 的艺术作品和 Go Takayama 的摄影，更深入地探讨了后者，编织了一个引人入胜的故事，讲述了 Ocean Link 号上的船员的故事，Ocean Link 号是驻扎在世界各地的 22 艘电缆维护船之一，在 2011 年 3 月日本遭受严重地震和海啸袭击后，他们竞相修复一根断裂的电缆。
The engineers on this aging ship are just a handful of the thousand or so people in this highly specialized industry, doing precise and physically demanding tasks that keep the internet (and every corporate, banking, and government entity) up and running every day.
这艘老化船上的工程师只是这个高度专业化行业的数千人中的一小部分，他们从事精确且体力要求高的任务，以保持互联网（以及每个企业、银行和政府实体）每天正常运行。
These workers spend most of their time at sea, away from home, and face precarious situations, performing invisible and underappreciated labor; given the current transoceanic cable boom, the demand for their skills will only continue to grow.
这些工人大部分时间都在海上度过，远离家乡，面临着不稳定的处境，从事着看不见的、不受重视的劳动；鉴于当前跨洋电缆的繁荣，对他们技能的需求只会继续增长。
But it’s the adventure, sense of purpose, and incredible scale of this work that keeps them in the field.
但正是这项工作的冒险精神、使命感和令人难以置信的规模让他们留在了这个领域。
Dzieza does a fantastic job showing how indispensable they are—yet you probably didn’t even know they existed.
Dzieza 出色地展示了它们是多么不可或缺——但你可能甚至不知道它们的存在。
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## Most People Are Disgusted by These Animals.
## 大多数人都厌恶这些动物。
These New Yorkers Are Filling Their Homes with Them.
这些纽约人的家中充满了它们。
Benji Jones | Vox | April 22, 2024 | 3,267 words
本吉·琼斯 |沃克斯| 2024 年 4 月 22 日 | 3,267 字
“The Merv Griffin Show” is a perfect Seinfeld episode: Kramer finds discarded pieces from the show in a dumpster and sets them up in his apartment, Jerry is obsessed with his girlfriend’s toy collection, Elaine is annoyed by a new coworker who “sidles” up behind her and takes credit for her work, and George .
《梅尔夫·格里芬秀》是一部完美的《宋飞正传》剧集：克莱默在垃圾箱里找到了节目中丢弃的物品，并将它们放在自己的公寓里；杰瑞沉迷于女友的玩具收藏；伊莱恩对一位“偷偷”站在她身后并抢走她的工作功劳的新同事感到恼火；乔治。
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well, George.
好吧，乔治。
In one scene, he and his girlfriend are driving through the city.
在一个场景中，他和他的女朋友开车穿过城市。
She asks him to watch out for pigeons in the road, but he dismisses her, saying they’ll get out of the way.
她让他留意路上的鸽子，但他拒绝了她，说它们会让开。
They don’t, and he hits them.
他们不这样做，他就打了他们。
“Don’t we have a deal with the pigeons?” he later asks Jerry.
“我们和鸽子不是有协议吗？”他后来问杰瑞。
On a subsequent ride, poor George faces the same predicament—but when he swerves to avoid a pigeon, he ends up hitting a squirrel.
在随后的骑行中，可怜的乔治面临着同样的困境，但当他突然转向躲避鸽子时，最终撞到了一只松鼠。
While reading this delightful piece by Benji Jones about the people in NYC who rehabilitate injured or abandoned creatures like rats, baby opossums, and stray birds, I couldn’t stop thinking about this pact that George mentions—the idea that we and the wild critters we live alongside in cities have some kind of understanding, one that favors humans: we’ll let you live on our streets as long as you don’t bother us or invade our personal spaces.
在读本吉·琼斯写的这篇令人愉快的文章时，我不禁想起了乔治提到的这个协议，即我们和我们一起生活在城市里的野生动物之间有某种有利于人类的理解：只要你不打扰我们或侵犯我们的私人空间，我们就会让你住在我们的街道上。
In contrast, the rehabbers who care for these small animals out of their own pockets are incredibly kind and humane; after spending time with these folks, Jones begins to understand why they do this intense work, often for free.
相比之下，那些自掏腰包照顾这些小动物的康复者却非常友善和人道。在与这些人相处一段时间后，琼斯开始理解他们为什么要从事这项紧张的工作，而且通常是免费的。
“They view these species not as pests but as part of nature—as part of the New York City ecosystem.
“他们不认为这些物种是害虫，而是自然的一部分——纽约市生态系统的一部分。
As part of their home.” Sure, some critters can be dirty, destructive, or diseased.
作为他们家的一部分。”当然，有些生物可能很脏、具有破坏性或患病。
But is pigeon poop so terrible?
但鸽子粪便真有那么可怕吗？
Has the subway rat brought real harm to society?
地铁鼠给社会带来了真正的危害吗？
Why do humans hold such contempt and disgust for these tiny creatures?
为什么人类对这些微小的生物抱有如此的蔑视和厌恶？
Jones shows how giving them respect, love, and the space to heal has, in turn, enriched these people’s lives.
琼斯向人们展示了如何给予他们尊重、爱和治愈的空间，从而丰富了这些人的生活。
Personally, I’ve always felt a kinship with squirrels, but there’s an underlying dividing line between “us” and “them” that has somehow conditioned me, like most people, to think they are less worthy of compassion than, say, a cat or a dog.
就我个人而言，我一直觉得与松鼠有亲缘关系，但“我们”和“它们”之间存在着一条潜在的分界线，这在某种程度上使我像大多数人一样，认为松鼠不如猫或狗那样值得同情。
Jones writes that we need to be better stewards of our environment.
琼斯写道，我们需要更好地管理我们的环境。
But that can only happen when we truly see these critters as living beings, too, trying to survive just like us.
但这只有当我们真正将这些生物视为生物并像我们一样努力生存时才会发生。
So perhaps, the next time I’m driving and see a creature on the road, I won’t assume it’ll move.
所以也许，下次我开车看到路上的生物时，我不会认为它会移动。
And better yet, I’ll slow down, even stop, to acknowledge it—and be grateful that our world is full of such a wonderful variety of life.
更好的是，我会放慢速度，甚至停下来承认这一点，并感激我们的世界充满了如此丰富多彩的生命。
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## May
##五月
## From the Encampments
## 来自营地
Columbia Law Students for Palestine; CUNY Law Student Against Genocide; Maeve Vitello; Rita W.
哥伦比亚法学院巴勒斯坦学生；纽约市立大学法学院学生反对种族灭绝；梅芙·维泰洛；丽塔·W.
Wang; Mehrdad Dariush, Chisato Kimura, Chloe Miller, and Rachel Vogel; Alaa Hajyahia and Seetha Tan | The Law and Political Economy Project | May 2, 2024 | 4,342 words
王;迈赫达德·达里什 (Mehrdad Dariush)、木村千里 (Chisato Kimura)、克洛伊·米勒 (Chloe Miller) 和雷切尔·沃格尔 (Rachel Vogel)； Alaa Hajyahia 和 Seetha Tan |法律与政治经济学项目| 2024 年 5 月 2 日 | 4,342 字
If you read one thing this week about the protest movement sweeping US college campuses, make it this.
如果你本周读到一则有关席卷美国大学校园的抗议运动的报道，那就这样吧。
Drowned out by hysterical concerns about campus safety and anti-Semitism—terms that the mainstream media is largely (and irresponsibly) allowing the opposition to the movement to define—are the protesters’ voices and specific demands.
抗议者的声音和具体要求被对校园安全和反犹太主义的歇斯底里的担忧所淹没——主流媒体在很大程度上（而且不负责任地）允许运动的反对派来定义这些术语。
Despite what CNN would have you think, these aren’t impetuous children screaming about a conflict halfway across the world they know little about and have no way of influencing.
不管 CNN 让你怎么想，这些人并不是鲁莽的孩子，他们对世界另一端的冲突尖叫，他们对此知之甚少，也无法施加影响。
These are young people who, in the tradition of student opposition to South African apartheid and other odious regimes of the past, know full well that they can have an impact by demanding that their institutions divest from weapons manufacturers and other entities that are currently enabling the genocide in Gaza.
这些年轻人继承了学生反对南非种族隔离和过去其他可恶政权的传统，他们非常清楚，他们可以通过要求他们的机构从武器制造商和其他目前在加沙促成种族灭绝的实体撤资来产生影响。
They represent a generation that, in no small part thanks to the education they’ve received at the schools now inviting police to brutalize them, sees clearly how various systems of violence and extraction—colonialism and capitalism, for instance—are intertwined.
他们所代表的一代人，在很大程度上要归功于他们在学校接受的教育，现在邀请警察对他们进行残酷镇压，他们清楚地看到了各种暴力和榨取制度——例如殖民主义和资本主义——是如何交织在一起的。
In this collection of short pieces, protesters at Columbia, NYU, Yale, and the City College of New York explain in their own words why they are putting themselves on the line.
在这本短文集中，哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学、耶鲁大学和纽约城市学院的抗议者用自己的语言解释了为什么他们要冒着生命危险。
They know the stakes, and they know what they are capable of.
他们知道其中的利害关系，也知道自己的能力。
“When students link arms with faculty, New Haven residents, encampments nationwide united under the vision of the ‘Popular University for Gaza,’ and in ultimate solidarity with Palestinians, they make possible a different kind of university that leaves the current administration and Trustees behind—to their great fear,” write four Yale law students.
“当学生们与教师、纽黑文居民、全国各地的营地在‘加沙大众大学’的愿景下团结起来，并最终与巴勒斯坦人团结一致时，他们就使一所不同类型的大学成为可能，将现任政府和受托人抛在了后面——让他们感到非常恐惧，”四名耶鲁大学法学院学生写道。
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## Full Metal Sponcon
## 全金属海绵
Jasper Craven | The Baffler | April 3, 2024 | 4,546 words
贾斯珀·克雷文 |挡板| 2024 年 4 月 3 日 | 4,546 字
In 2018, Eddie Gallagher, a Navy SEAL, was court-martialed for allegedly murdering a prisoner in Iraq.
2018 年，海豹突击队队员埃迪·加拉格尔因涉嫌在伊拉克谋杀一名囚犯而受到军事法庭审判。
If you followed the high-profile case, or listened to the excellent podcast about it, called The Line, you likely know that Gallagher was acquitted after a key witness changed his story on the stand.
如果您关注了这个备受瞩目的案件，或者听过有关该案件的精彩播客，名为“The Line”，您可能会知道，在一名关键证人在证人席上改变了他的说法后，加拉格尔被无罪释放。
The only charge that stuck pertained to Gallagher posing for photographs with the prisoner’s corpse.
唯一被指控的罪名是加拉格尔与囚犯的尸体合影。
(He texted one image to a friend in California, with the message, “Good story behind this, got him with my hunting knife.”) Gallagher was feted by conservative media and quickly pardoned by Donald Trump.
（他给加利福尼亚州的一位朋友发了一张照片，并写道：“这背后有一个好故事，我用猎刀把他抓住了。”）加拉格尔受到了保守派媒体的热烈欢迎，并很快得到了唐纳德·特朗普的赦免。
And where has he been since?
从那以后他去了哪里？
Apparently, hawking seasoned salt—as well as gun silencers, knives, and jiujitsu clinics.
显然，他们在兜售调味盐，以及枪支消音器、刀具和柔术诊所。
As Jasper Craven shows, Gallagher has spent the last several years turning himself into a brand—when he’s selling stuff, he’s really selling himself.
正如贾斯珀·克雷文 (Jasper Craven) 所展示的那样，加拉格尔在过去几年里一直在将自己变成一个品牌——当他销售产品时，他实际上是在销售自己。
He’s also written a book, started a podcast, and launched a foundation to support police officers and service members accused of crimes; among the beneficiaries to date is Daniel Penny, the former Marine who in 2023 choked an unarmed Black man to death on the New York subway.
他还写了一本书，创办了一个播客，并成立了一个基金会来支持被指控犯罪的警察和军人；迄今为止的受益者之一是前海军陆战队员丹尼尔·彭尼(Daniel Penny)，他于 2023 年在纽约地铁上将一名手无寸铁的黑人窒息身亡。
Gallagher embraces the backlash against his history of violence—in fact, it’s central to his appeal to consumers.
加拉格尔接受了对他的暴力历史的强烈反对——事实上，这是他吸引消费者的核心。
Craven positions Gallagher in a “weird world” of influencers that includes “the likes of acquitted Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, who has written a memoir and recently partnered with a body armor company, and disgraced General Michael Flynn, who gives speeches, sells merch, and promotes a precious metals exchange.” This incisive feature offers a window into the commodification of right-wing aggression, anti-wokeness, and Trumpism.
克雷文将加拉格尔置于一个由有影响力的人组成的“怪异世界”，其中包括“被无罪释放的基诺沙枪击案凶手凯尔·里滕豪斯(Kyle Rittenhouse)，他写了一本回忆录，最近与一家防弹衣公司合作，还有让迈克尔·弗林将军蒙羞的人，他发表演讲，销售商品，并推广贵金属交易所。”这一深刻的特征为了解右翼侵略、反觉醒和特朗普主义的商品化提供了一个窗口。
Call it warrior-culture capitalism, and call it gross, because that’s what it is.
称其为武士文化资本主义，也称其为粗俗，因为它就是这样。
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## Secret in the Walls: Hidden Letters Reveal Love, Lust, Scandal in 1920s Baltimore Society
## 墙中的秘密：隐藏的信件揭示 20 年代巴尔的摩社会的爱情、欲望和丑闻
Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh | The Baltimore Banner | May 8, 2024 | 2,467 words
蒂姆·普鲁登特和斯托克利·巴克什 |巴尔的摩旗帜| 2024 年 5 月 8 日 | 2,467 字
I read a lot this week, but not many pieces spoke to me.
这周我读了很多书，但没有多少文章能吸引我。
Frankly, I think I craved something different.
坦白说，我想我渴望一些不同的东西。
So it was easy to get swept away by this Baltimore Banner story: a tale of “lust and scandal and fortune” and, ultimately, a love triangle between a woman and two men.
因此，人们很容易被《巴尔的摩旗帜》的这个故事所吸引：一个关于“欲望、丑闻和财富”的故事，最终是一个女人和两个男人之间的三角恋。
Tim Prudente and Stokely Baksh recount how Joanna Meade, a resident of Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood, discovered a black tin full of juicy love letters inside the wall of her house during a bathroom renovation.
蒂姆·普鲁登特 (Tim Prudente) 和斯托克利·巴克什 (Stokely Baksh) 讲述了巴尔的摩罗兰公园 (Roland Park) 社区的居民乔安娜·米德 (Joanna Meade) 在浴室装修期间如何在她家的墙上发现了一个装满多汁情书的黑罐子。
All 67 letters were addressed to a woman named “Mrs. R.A.
所有 67 封信都是写给一位名叫“R.A. 夫人”的女士的。
Spaeth,” and all except one were postmarked in 1920 or 1921.
Spaeth”，除一封外，所有邮戳均盖有 1920 年或 1921 年的邮戳。
Reading the cursive penmanship and old-fashioned language was difficult, but Meade was quickly hooked; “It was like eavesdropping,” she tells the authors.
阅读草书字体和老式语言很困难，但米德很快就被迷住了。 “这就像窃听，”她告诉作者。
She enlists the help of her neighbors, as well as the Banner’s staff, to decipher the correspondence and gather clues from across city archives and the internet to piece together the mystery: Why were these letters stashed away inside her house?
她在邻居以及旗帜工作人员的帮助下破译了这些信件，并从整个城市档案馆和互联网上收集线索，以解开谜团：为什么这些信件被藏在她的房子里？
Who was Mrs. Spaeth?
斯佩思夫人是谁？
Who is “R,” the man writing to her?
给她写信的男人“R”是谁？
The scans of envelopes, letters, photographs, and newspaper articles enhance the read, like we’re discovering each detail as it’s uncovered in the newsroom.
扫描信封、信件、照片和报纸文章可以增强阅读效果，就像我们正在发现新闻编辑室中发现的每一个细节一样。
While the story’s premise is not new—it reminds me, in fact, of a piece in our sister publication called “Castles in the Sky”—there’s so much here to like: Secrets hidden in an old house, waiting to be found.
虽然这个故事的前提并不新鲜——事实上，它让我想起了我们姊妹刊物《天空之城》中的一篇文章——但这里有很多值得喜欢的地方：隐藏在老房子里的秘密等待被发现。
A community working together to uncover information (through Nextdoor, of all places).
一个共同努力发现信息的社区（通过 Nextdoor，在所有地方）。
And the power and sway of writing, of these words handwritten on delicate paper, more than a century later.
一个多世纪后，这些文字手写在精致的纸上，展现出书写的力量和影响力。
—CLR
—CLR
## Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother
## 大规模枪击案凶手母亲的教训
Mark Follman | Mother Jones | May 16, 2024 | 14,073 words
马克·福尔曼 |琼斯妈妈 | 2024 年 5 月 16 日 | 14,073 字
In 2014, Elliot Rodger murdered six people, wounded 14 others, and killed himself in Isla Vista, California.
2014 年，埃利奥特·罗杰 (Elliot Rodger) 在加利福尼亚州伊斯拉维斯塔 (Isla Vista) 谋杀了 6 人，打伤 14 人，并自杀。
As Mark Follman shows in this thoughtful, compassionate feature, Rodger was an unwell, unstable young man whose actions—like those of many mass shooters—were likely preventable.
正如马克·福尔曼在这部深思熟虑、富有同情心的影片中所展示的那样，罗杰是一个身体不适、情绪不稳定的年轻人，他的行为——就像许多大规模枪击案凶手的行为一样——很可能是可以预防的。
The key component of any prevention strategy for gun violence is reducing people’s access to firearms, but Follman approaches the matter from a complementary angle: one focused on a troubled person’s experiences, needs, and risks.
任何枪支暴力预防策略的关键组成部分都是减少人们获得枪支的机会，但福尔曼从一个补充的角度来处理这个问题：关注有问题的人的经历、需求和风险。
“Many mass shooters remain ambivalent about killing themselves and others—and most engage in observable warning behaviors well before they attack,” Follman explains.
福尔曼解释说：“许多大规模枪击事件的凶手对于自杀和他人仍然抱有矛盾的态度，而且大多数人在袭击之前就会做出明显的警告行为。”
If these red flags are documented and reported, what’s known as “behavioral threat assessment” can kick into gear: “Made up of psychologists, administrators, law enforcement, and other trained practitioners who meet regularly to handle cases, the team conducts interviews and gathers information to gauge the danger.
如果这些危险信号被记录和报告，所谓的“行为威胁评估”就可以启动：“该团队由心理学家、管理人员、执法人员和其他训练有素的从业人员组成，他们定期开会处理案件，进行访谈并收集信息以评估危险。
Then, over weeks or months, they use constructive tools like counseling, social services, and education support to guide the troubled person away from what the field calls ‘the pathway to violence.’” Follman delves into threat assessment as a growing field of study and action through the lens of Rodger’s mother, Chin, who became interested in it a few years after her son’s crime.
然后，在几周或几个月的时间里，他们使用咨询、社会服务和教育支持等建设性工具来引导有问题的人远离该领域所谓的“暴力之路”。”福尔曼通过罗杰母亲钦的视角，深入研究威胁评估作为一个不断发展的研究和行动领域，她在儿子犯罪几年后对此产生了兴趣。
Chin is now using her son’s story and her experience as his mother to help experts better understand what compels mass shooters to act and what it takes to stop them.
钦现在正在利用她儿子的故事和她作为母亲的经历来帮助专家更好地了解是什么迫使大规模枪击事件发生以及如何阻止他们。
In a profound act of grief, love, and generosity, she has made herself a case study.
在悲伤、爱和慷慨的深刻行动中，她把自己当作了一个案例研究。
Follman’s piece is essential reading, going beyond the headlines and assumptions about mass shootings to illuminate root problems and cracks in various systems—social, familial, educational, therapeutic—that people like Rodger too often slip through.
福尔曼的文章是必读之作，它超越了有关大规模枪击事件的头条新闻和假设，揭示了社会、家庭、教育、治疗等各种系统中的根本问题和裂缝，而像罗杰这样的人经常会忽视这些系统。
—SD
—SD
## June
## 六月
## Coercive Care
## 强制护理
Eric Boodman | STAT | May 21, 2024 | 7,009 words
埃里克·布德曼 |统计 | 2024 年 5 月 21 日 | 7,009 字
About 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease.
美国约有 10 万人患有镰状细胞病。
Roughly 90 percent of them are Black.
其中大约 90% 是黑人。
And many of them have harrowing, even devastating experiences with reproductive health care.
他们中的许多人在生殖保健方面都有过痛苦甚至毁灭性的经历。
For this investigative feature, Eric Boodman, one of the finest writers covering science and medicine today, speaks to 50 women with sickle cell disease about their experiences.
在这篇调查专题中，当今最优秀的科学和医学作家之一埃里克·布德曼 (Eric Boodman) 采访了 50 名患有镰状细胞病的女性，讲述了她们的经历。
They describe being pressured into having tubal ligations, hysterectomies, and abortions.
他们描述了被迫进行输卵管结扎、子宫切除和堕胎的情况。
“Some stories carry echoes of ‘Mississippi appendectomies’ of the mid-20th century, in which Black women would go in for a different procedure and wake up to learn that their uterus had been removed,” Boodman writes.
“有些故事让人想起 20 世纪中叶的‘密西西比阑尾切除术’，黑人女性接受不同的手术，醒来后发现她们的子宫已被切除，”布德曼写道。
His sources also talk about being judged, scolded, and shamed by doctors, which Boodman describes as “a kind of verbal sterilization, when doctors express the pernicious belief that people with sickle cell disease cannot or should not have kids.” Boodman examines the meaning of “informed consent” and reveals how the strict definition of the term can be exploited by doctors, protecting them from liability while still ruining the lives of patients.
他的消息来源还谈到了受到医生的评判、责骂和羞辱，博德曼将其描述为“一种口头绝育，当医生表达出镰状细胞病患者不能或不应该生孩子的有害信念时。”博德曼研究了“知情同意”的含义，并揭示了医生如何利用该术语的严格定义，保护他们免受责任，同时仍然毁掉患者的生命。
This story is beautifully written to boot, amplifying its impact.
这个故事写得很漂亮，扩大了它的影响力。
It is the first in an ongoing series.
这是一个正在进行的系列中的第一个。
I am excited—and terrified—for the rest.
对于剩下的事情，我既兴奋又害怕。
—SD
—SD
## Spreadsheet Superstars
## 电子表格超级明星
David Pierce | The Verge | June 12, 2024 | 7,191 words
大卫·皮尔斯 |边缘| 2024 年 6 月 12 日 | 7,191 字
Even before I read this feature about the Excel World Championship, I had been charmed by its design.
甚至在我阅读这篇关于 Excel 世界锦标赛的专题之前，我就已经被它的设计迷住了。
The visuals are chef’s-kiss perfect: paragraphs rendered as spreadsheet cells; an old-school palette of green text on a black background; bitmap-style illustrations that chunk together as you scroll them into view.
视觉效果堪称完美：段落呈现为电子表格单元格；黑色背景上绿色文本的老式调色板；当您将它们滚动到视图中时，位图样式的插图会组合在一起。
Even the footer and credits tab feel considered, consistent, and—most importantly—not so assertive that they overwhelm the reading experience.
甚至页脚和致谢标签也让人感觉经过深思熟虑、一致，而且最重要的是，不会过于自信，以至于压倒阅读体验。
(Achieving a balance between spectacle and legibility is all too rare in the post-“Snow Fall” era.) Thankfully, the piece’s creative director, Kristen Radtke, shares byline billing with author David Pierce.
（在后“雪落”时代，在奇观和易读性之间取得平衡是非常罕见的。）值得庆幸的是，该作品的创意总监克里斯汀·拉特克（Kristen Radtke）与作者大卫·皮尔斯（David Pierce）共享署名。
But don’t ignore Pierce’s role in a fantastic story.
但不要忽视皮尔斯在这个精彩故事中的角色。
This is a scene piece of sorts, in which he heads to Las Vegas for his completely unrealistic shot at the big prize, but it’s also a surprisingly lyrical meditation on what makes a program like Excel both powerful and poetic.
这是一个场景片段，其中他前往拉斯维加斯，以完全不切实际的方式获得大奖，但这也是一个令人惊讶的抒情冥想，思考是什么让 Excel 这样的程序既强大又富有诗意。
“In a spreadsheet world,” Pierce writes, “everything is comparable, reducible to some base figure that eventually explains everything if only you know how to ask.
“在电子表格的世界里，”皮尔斯写道，“一切都是可比较的，都可以简化为某个基本数字，只要你知道如何提问，这些基本数字最终就能解释一切。
Spreadsheets promise the world isn’t actually complicated — you just have to know the formulas.
电子表格承诺世界实际上并不复杂——您只需要知道公式即可。
I don’t know if that’s beautiful or bleak or both, but it’s certainly big business.” What’s so lovely about the project as a whole is that the story and art work in perfect concert.
我不知道这是美好的还是惨淡的，或者两者兼而有之，但这肯定是一笔大生意。”整个项目的可爱之处在于故事和艺术完美地结合在一起。
Neither takes itself too seriously, yet both execute at the highest level of their form.
两者都不太认真地对待自己，但两者都以最高水平执行。
I smiled as soon as I opened the tab, and I didn’t stop until I finished the last word.
我一打开标签就笑了，直到说完最后一个字才停下来。
An easy formula to hope for, but a hard one to accomplish.
这是一个很容易实现的公式，但很难实现。
—PR
——公关
## The Cousin I Never Knew
## 我从来不认识的表弟
Sophie Vershbow | Esquire | June 18, 2024 | 7,436 words
索菲·维什鲍 | Sophie Vershbow时尚先生 | 2024 年 6 月 18 日 | 7,436 字
When the storytelling is this compelling in a 7,500-word profile, time evaporates in an instant.
当 7,500 字的简介中的故事讲述如此引人入胜时，时间就会瞬间消失。
Reporter Sophie Vershbow was 4 days old when she attended a funeral for her cousin, Jeffrey Bomser, who died on Monday, August 14, 1989, at age 38; he’d fallen into a coma after surgery to treat an AIDS complication.
记者 Sophie Vershbow 出生 4 天时参加了她表弟 Jeffrey Bomser 的葬礼，后者于 1989 年 8 月 14 日星期一去世，享年 38 岁；他在接受艾滋病并发症手术后陷入昏迷。
For Esquire, Vershbow mined diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings, and spoke to many people in Jeff’s circle to tell his story: he and his brother Larry contracted HIV and died within six months of each other in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
弗什鲍为《Esquire》杂志挖掘了日记、信件和剪报，并向杰夫圈子里的许多人讲述了他的故事：他和他的兄弟拉里在艾滋病流行初期感染了艾滋病毒，并在六个月内相继去世。
Vershbow learns that Jeff was bisexual.
维什鲍得知杰夫是双性恋。
He never knew whether he contracted the virus from sex or by sharing needles with his brother.
他永远不知道自己是通过性行为还是通过与兄弟共用针头感染了病毒。
Jeff became a staunch, outspoken support for others navigating HIV infection.
杰夫坚定、直言不讳地支持其他人应对艾滋病毒感染。
He fought stigma and advocated for clinical trials to find promising treatment.
他与耻辱作斗争，并主张进行临床试验以寻找有希望的治疗方法。
Above all, he helped people live out their remaining days with peace and grace, at a time when an HIV diagnosis often meant fear, shame, and isolation.
最重要的是，在艾滋病毒诊断通常意味着恐惧、羞耻和孤立的时代，他帮助人们平静、优雅地度过余生。
“Jeff believed that the more people who knew about AIDS and people who had it, the better chance there would be of finding a cure,” she writes.
“杰夫相信，了解艾滋病和艾滋病患者的人越多，找到治疗方法的机会就越大，”她写道。
“He was aware of his privilege as a charismatic, straight-passing, sober, middle-class white man dealing with a diagnosis mostly shared at the time by gay men and disadvantaged IV drug users who were being systematically ignored.” Vershbow excels at helping readers remember the stigma society imposed on those living with HIV and AIDS, highlighting exactly why Jeff and his contributions were extraordinary.
“他意识到自己作为一个有魅力、直率、清醒的中产阶级白人所拥有的特权，他所面临的诊断大多是同性恋者和弱势静脉吸毒者所共有的，而他们却被系统性地忽视了。” Vershbow 擅长帮助读者记住社会对艾滋病毒和艾滋病感染者所施加的耻辱，并强调为什么杰夫和他的贡献是非凡的。
What Vershbow makes clear in this riveting profile is that it’s not about the dysfunctional and dangerous path you once walked or what befalls you as a result.
维什博在这篇引人入胜的简介中明确表示，这与你曾经走过的不正常和危险的道路或结果无关。
It doesn’t matter where purpose originates, it’s what you do with it that counts.
目的源自何处并不重要，重要的是你用它做什么。
—KS
—KS
## Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
## Snapchat 青少年阿片类药物危机的内幕
Paul Solotaroff | Rolling Stone | June 16, 2024 | 9,164 words
保罗·索洛塔洛夫 |滚石 | 2024 年 6 月 16 日 | 9,164 字
Snapchat’s clandestine features—notably, messages that vanish after they’re viewed—are especially appealing to its younger users, from tweens to college kids.
Snapchat 的秘密功能（尤其是消息在查看后就会消失）对于年轻用户（从青少年到大学生）尤其有吸引力。
Unfortunately, this makes it a perfect platform for drug dealers to sell lethal concoctions of Oxycontin, Xanax, and other sought-after pills to these younger users.
不幸的是，这使其成为毒贩向这些年轻用户出售奥施康定、阿普唑仑和其他抢手药物的致命混合物的完美平台。
In 2020, more than 950 kids died from drug overdose; in the first half of 2021, another 1,150 died.
2020年，超过950名儿童死于吸毒过量； 2021 年上半年，又有 1,150 人死亡。
The majority of these deaths were from fentanyl and synthetics, both of which are used in fake pills sold online.
这些死亡大部分是芬太尼和合成药物造成的，这两种物质都用于在线销售的假药丸中。
Paul Solotaroff spent eight months reporting this harrowing feature, and presents two different perspectives: the heartbreaking accounts of families who lost children after they’d bought and ingested counterfeit pills from dealers on Snapchat, and then the version of this story from the social media giant itself, which points to its zero-tolerance policy regarding drug dealers and claims its teams are doing everything possible to make the platform safe.
保罗·索洛塔罗夫 (Paul Solotaroff) 花了八个月的时间报道了这一令人痛心的报道，并提出了两种不同的观点：一些家庭在从 Snapchat 上的毒贩那里购买并服用假药后失去了孩子，这些家庭的令人心碎的叙述；以及社交媒体巨头本身的故事版本，它指出了其对毒贩的零容忍政策，并声称其团队正在尽一切可能确保平台安全。
Alongside excellent reporting on the evolving drug trade (which is booming on social media) and the legal landscape (in which companies like Snapchat have immunity from crimes committed by their users), Solotaroff follows one activist mother who mobilized after losing her son, a bright 14-year-old boy named Alex Neville.
除了对不断发展的毒品交易（社交媒体上蓬勃发展）和法律环境（其中 Snapchat 等公司免受用户犯罪行为的影响）的出色报道外，索洛塔罗夫还讲述了一位积极分子母亲在失去儿子（一个名叫亚历克斯·内维尔的 14 岁男孩）后动员起来的故事。
She’s since connected with dozens of families of other victims, working with law firms on their case and fighting to hold Snapchat—and Big Tech—accountable.
此后，她与数十名其他受害者的家人取得了联系，与律师事务所合作处理他们的案件，并努力追究 Snapchat 和大型科技公司的责任。
This is a nightmarish but important story, whether or not you’re a parent.
无论您是否为人父母，这都是一个噩梦般但重要的故事。
(I also read a Noema interview with the author of The Anxious Generation this week—a very different yet complementary read that discusses mental health and anxiety in today’s youth and the rewiring of childhood due to apps like Snapchat.) —CLR
（本周我还阅读了 Noema 对《焦虑的一代》作者的采访——这是一篇非常不同但又互补的读物，讨论了当今年轻人的心理健康和焦虑，以及 Snapchat 等应用程序对童年的重新布线。）——CLR
## July
##七月
## The Eviction Cure
## 驱逐疗法
J.K.
J.K.
Nickell | Texas Monthly | June 10, 2024 | 10,640 words
尼克尔|德克萨斯月刊| 2024 年 6 月 10 日 | 10,640 字
As we all know, the US housing market is a nightmare.
众所周知，美国房地产市场是一场噩梦。
Property prices and interest rates are sky-high, rendering the prospect of buying a home unthinkable for many people.
房价和利率居高不下，使得买房的前景对许多人来说是不可想象的。
Renters face a dire landscape, too: according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, “affordability conditions are the worst on record.” (I urge you to look at the data in that JCHS link; it’s jaw-dropping.) Policymakers are doing little to remedy the burden of housing costs, even for the most vulnerable, or to protect renters from landlords who—excuse my language—don’t give a crap about the people living under their roofs.
租房者也面临着严峻的形势：根据哈佛大学住房研究联合中心的数据，“负担能力状况是有记录以来最糟糕的”。 （我强烈建议你看看 JCHS 链接中的数据；它令人瞠目结舌。）政策制定者几乎没有采取任何措施来减轻住房成本负担，即使是对最弱势群体来说也是如此，也没有采取任何措施来保护租房者免受房东的侵害，因为房东——请原谅我的语言——根本不关心住在自己屋檐下的人们。
But in Dallas, Texas, woe is the landlord who finds themselves on the radar of a local lawyer named Mark Melton.
但在得克萨斯州达拉斯市，不幸的是，房东发现自己受到了当地一位名叫马克·梅尔顿(Mark Melton)的律师的关注。
When readers first meet Melton in this superb profile by J.K.
当读者在 J.K. 的这篇精彩简介中第一次见到梅尔顿时，
Nickell, he’s wearing “a sweat-stained purple Patagonia cap .
尼克尔，他戴着“一顶沾满汗水的紫色巴塔哥尼亚帽子……”
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[and] an untucked T-shirt dangled loosely over his jeans.” In my imagination, that T-shirt is emblazoned with the phrase “ENOUGH!” because that, in a word, is Melton’s mantra.
[还有]一件没有塞进裤腰的 T 恤宽松地挂在牛仔裤外面。”在我的想象中，那件 T 恤上印有“够了！”的字样。因为总而言之，这就是梅尔顿的座右铭。
Since 2020, Melton has been doing everything in his power to stop unlawful evictions in Dallas County.
自 2020 年以来，梅尔顿一直在竭尽全力制止达拉斯县的非法驱逐行为。
He’s recruited an army of people to help him—attorneys who literally intercept renters on their way to eviction hearings before justices of the peace, elected public servants who “are not required to have a high school diploma, much less a law degree.” (Seriously?!) These advocates demand that landlords follow the law by, say, providing due notice before kicking someone out of their home.
他招募了一大群人来帮助他——律师在前往治安法官听证会的路上拦截租客，当选公务员“不需要拥有高中文凭，更不用说法律学位了”。 （认真的？！）这些倡导者要求房东遵守法律，例如在将某人赶出家门之前提供适当的通知。
As for lawful evictions, ones based on policies that seem intended to punish people when they fall on hard times, Nickell shows that there’s little reason for hope: renters in Texas shouldn’t expect the law to change soon, if ever.
至于合法驱逐，这些政策的基础似乎是为了惩罚陷入困境的人们，尼克尔表示，没有理由抱有希望：德克萨斯州的租房者不应该指望法律会很快改变，如果有的话。
This fact clarifies Melton’s character.
这一事实阐明了梅尔顿的性格。
He’s a person doing what he can with what he has rather than being daunted by the big picture.
他是一个利用自己拥有的东西做他能做的事的人，而不是被大局吓倒。
It’s not everything, but it’s something—and for the people he helps, it’s a lot.
这虽然不是一切，但确实很重要——对于他帮助的人来说，这意义重大。
I tore through this story, fueled by admiration for Melton and by rage against Texas’s eviction machine.
在对梅尔顿的钦佩和对德克萨斯州驱逐机制的愤怒的推动下，我读完了这个故事。
—SD
—SD
## Disposable Heroes
## 一次性英雄
Moira Donegan | Bookforum | July 2, 2024 | 4,344 words
莫伊拉·多尼根 |图书论坛 | 2024 年 7 月 2 日 | 4,344 字
In 2022, I published a story about four women who, as teenagers, were groomed and sexually abused by teachers at their acclaimed public high school.
2022 年，我发表了一篇关于四名女性的故事，她们在青少年时期在广受好评的公立高中遭到老师的诱骗和性虐待。
I agonized about how the story would affect their lives.
我为这个故事将如何影响他们的生活而苦恼。
So did they.
他们也是。
The teachers who hurt them—and other teachers who knew about the hurt—were beloved.
伤害他们的老师——以及其他了解伤害的老师——都是受人爱戴的。
How would the women’s peers react to their childhood mentors being exposed as predators?
当她们儿时的导师被揭露为掠夺者时，女性同龄人会有何反应？
How would the subjects cope with seeing their pain committed to the page?
受试者看到自己的痛苦被写在纸上，会如何应对？
I’m proud of the story and believe it had a positive impact.
我为这个故事感到自豪，并相信它产生了积极的影响。
One of the women got the first letter of the pseudonym I used for her tattooed on her arm as a symbol of empowerment.
其中一位女士将我为她使用的笔名的第一个字母纹在她的手臂上，作为赋权的象征。
I heard from dozens of readers who said the story prompted personal reckonings with the wrongdoing that persisted at the school in all but plain sight.
我从数十名读者那里听到，他们说这个故事促使人们对学校中持续存在的不法行为进行个人反思。
An additional survivor of abuse came forward to file a lawsuit.
另一位虐待幸存者挺身而出提起诉讼。
But I also communicated with other victims, and with people aware of other victims, who didn’t want to come forward.
但我也与其他受害者以及了解其他不愿站出来的受害者的人进行了沟通。
I understand that decision, and I thought about it while reading this devastating essay by Moira Donegan.
我理解这个决定，并且在阅读莫伊拉·多尼根（Moira Donegan）这篇毁灭性的文章时也思考过这个决定。
While technically a review of a memoir by Christine Blasey Ford, who testified that Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during high school, Donegan’s piece is really a much larger project.
从技术上讲，这是对克里斯汀·布莱西·福特(Christine Blasey Ford)回忆录的评论，她作证说最高法院法官布雷特·卡瓦诺(Brett Kavanaugh)在高中期间对她进行了性侵犯，但多尼根的作品实际上是一个更大的项目。
It’s an indictment of the triumphalist narrative of the #MeToo movement, a reminder that for many survivors, the decision to speak out brought on new forms of pain: bullying, death threats, PTSD.
这是对 #MeToo 运动必胜主义叙事的控诉，提醒人们，对于许多幸存者来说，发声的决定带来了新形式的痛苦：欺凌、死亡威胁、创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD)。
Ford realized that she would forever be narrowly defined in the public eye by her testimony.
福特意识到她的证词将永远在公众眼中狭隘地定义她。
“You can never be anything else now,” a PR rep told her.
“你现在再也不能成为其他人了，”一位公关代表告诉她。
Meanwhile, justice has been elusive for many survivors, including Ford.
与此同时，对包括福特在内的许多幸存者来说，正义一直难以实现。
Since his confirmation to the court, Kavanaugh has helped to restrict women’s rights.
自从被法庭确认以来，卡瓦诺一直在帮助限制妇女权利。
I fear—as I suspect Donegan does—that other abusers have only gotten savvier about avoiding scrutiny for both past and current wrongs.
我担心——正如我怀疑多尼根所做的那样——其他施虐者只会变得更加精明，避免对过去和当前的错误进行审查。
What, then, was the public spectacle of so much of #MeToo for?
那么，#MeToo 如此大规模的公共景观是为了什么？
“The plundering of public survivors’ psyches…their vulnerability and humiliation, their drained emotions and bank accounts, their curtailed prospects and usurped identities, their rage and grief and degradation,” Donegan writes, “appears, in retrospect, to have been less about our edification than about our entertainment.” —SD
多尼根写道：“对公众幸存者心灵的掠夺……他们的脆弱和羞辱，他们的情感和银行账户被耗尽，他们的前景被削弱和被篡夺的身份，他们的愤怒、悲伤和堕落，回想起来，这似乎更多的是为了我们的娱乐，而不是对我们的启迪。” —SD
## Emma Carey: The Skydiver Who Survived a 14,000-foot Fall
## 艾玛·凯莉：从 14,000 英尺高处坠落幸存的跳伞运动员
Ryan Hockensmith | ESPN | June 26, 2024 | 5,538 words
瑞安·霍肯史密斯 | ESPN | 2024 年 6 月 26 日 | 5,538 字
Eleven years ago, Emma Carey plummeted 14,000 feet to the ground after a tandem jump with her skydiving instructor went horribly wrong.
十一年前，艾玛·凯莉 (Emma Carey) 与跳伞教练进行串联跳伞时发生严重错误，从 14,000 英尺的高度坠落到地面。
For ESPN, Ryan Hockensmith takes us through Carey’s life-altering fall.
ESPN 的瑞安·霍肯史密斯 (Ryan Hockensmith) 带领我们经历了凯里改变人生的跌倒。
“Emma Carey is flying, and she is so happy,” he writes.
“艾玛·凯莉在飞翔，她很高兴，”他写道。
“She is 14,000 feet above the earth, gripping the straps of her parachute pack like an excited kid on the way to her first day of school.
“她在距地球 14,000 英尺的高空，紧紧抓住降落伞包的带子，就像一个兴奋的孩子第一天上学。
Oh my god, I’m going to become a skydiver, she thinks, not knowing that just about the most terrifying thing a human being can experience is about to happen to her.” Her accident could have easily taken center stage in this piece.
天哪，我要成为一名跳伞运动员，她想，却不知道人类所能经历的最可怕的事情即将发生在她身上。”她的事故很容易成为这部作品的中心舞台。
Hockensmith is a skilled reporter and writer who uses evocative detail to tell us so much more than the basic facts of Carey’s accident and the aftermath.
霍肯史密斯是一位熟练的记者和作家，他用令人回味的细节告诉我们的不仅仅是凯里事故及其后果的基本事实。
He introduces us to Emma and her best friend, Jemma Mrdak.
他向我们介绍了艾玛和她最好的朋友杰玛·姆达克。
The duo is a “package deal” who did everything together, including skydiving.
这对搭档是“一揽子交易”，他们一起做所有事情，包括跳伞。
It’s unclear precisely what happened during Carey’s jump.
目前尚不清楚凯里跳跃期间到底发生了什么。
All she knows is that the main and safety chutes became entangled and neither opened as expected; her instructor landed on top of her, unconscious.
她只知道主滑道和安全滑道纠缠在一起，都没有按预期打开；她的教练落在她身上，不省人事。
She does not blame him for what happened and has kept his name out of news reports in the aftermath.
她并没有因为发生的事情而责怪他，并且在事后的新闻报道中没有提到他的名字。
The premise of this story is compelling, but what I loved most is that Carey’s attitude is almost a full-fledged character in this piece.
这个故事的前提很引人注目，但我最喜欢的是凯里的态度几乎是这部作品中成熟的角色。
“She began toggling between moments of tremendous gratitude that she’s alive, and tremendous anger at the accident, at the world, at her body, at everything.
“她开始在对自己还活着的巨大感激和对事故、对世界、对她的身体、对一切的巨大愤怒之间摇摆不定。
Sometimes she had a good morning and a bad afternoon.
有时她会度过一个美好的早晨和一个糟糕的下午。
Other times it was a bad 1:52 p.m.
其他时候，下午 1 点 52 分的天气会很糟糕。
and a good 1:53, then a bad 1:54.
好的 1 分 53 秒，差的 1 分 54 秒。
She just tried to keep getting to 1:55,” Hockensmith writes.
她只是想继续跑到 1 分 55 秒，”霍肯史密斯写道。
This is a gripping story of pure will and determination.
这是一个关于纯粹意志和决心的扣人心弦的故事。
While Emma may have lost feeling and partial use of her legs, she is here to tell you that as a person, she is absolutely whole.
虽然艾玛可能失去了感觉并且部分使用了她的双腿，但她在这里告诉你，作为一个人，她绝对是完整的。
—KS
—KS
## August
## 八月
## ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare’: Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
## “我们生活在噩梦中”：德克萨斯州比特币小镇的健康危机
Andrew R.
安德鲁·R。
Chow | TIME | July 8, 2024 | 4,250 words
周 |时间 | 2024 年 7 月 8 日 | 4,250 字
There are 137 bitcoin mines in the US, many of them located in remote and rural places in Texas, “home to giant power plants, lax regulation, and crypto-friendly politicians.” After a massive bitcoin facility started operating in the town of Granbury, people of all ages began to experience a range of unexplainable medical issues, including hypertension, chest pain, heart palpitations, migraines, vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and panic attacks.
美国有 137 个比特币矿场，其中许多位于德克萨斯州的偏远农村地区，“那里有巨型发电厂、宽松的监管和对加密货币友好的政客”。在格兰伯里镇一座大型比特币设施开始运营后，各个年龄段的人们开始经历一系列无法解释的医疗问题，包括高血压、胸痛、心悸、偏头痛、眩晕、耳鸣、听力损失和惊恐发作。
Even the community’s nonhuman residents—from dogs to chickens to a family’s backyard oak tree—exhibited strange symptoms.
甚至社区的非人类居民——从狗到鸡再到家庭后院的橡树——也表现出了奇怪的症状。
At first, no one knew what was making them sick, but they knew they had one thing in common: the inescapable “dull aural hum” from the mine.
起初，没有人知道是什么让他们生病，但他们知道他们有一个共同点：矿井中不可避免的“沉闷的嗡嗡声”。
The buzz, generated by 30,000 computers and thousands of fans running to cool them, is constant.
30,000 台计算机和数千个为计算机降温的风扇不断发出嗡嗡声。
And the noise, which residents have consistently recorded at over 85 decibels, is over the state’s legal limit.
居民记录到的噪音持续超过 85 分贝，超过了该州的法定限值。
(On top of this, Texas’ noise law is the worst in the nation—one that seems to protect noise polluters, not its citizens.) In this eye-opening story, Andrew R.
（除此之外，德克萨斯州的噪音法是全国最差的——该法似乎保护噪音污染者，而不是其公民。） 在这个令人大开眼界的故事中，安德鲁·R·
Chow shares the medical struggles and stories of more than 50 Granbury residents affected by the noise, and reports on how the community is trying to fight back against Marathon, the mine’s owner.
Chow 分享了 50 多名受噪音影响的格兰伯里居民的医疗挣扎和故事，并报道了社区如何努力反击矿主马拉松。
As crypto and AI fuel the data center industry’s growth, however, this very scenario is repeating itself in other states, including Arkansas and North Dakota.
然而，随着加密货币和人工智能推动数据中心行业的增长，这种情况正在其他州重演，包括阿肯色州和北达科他州。
“Ultimately,” Chow writes, “Granbury is just one canary of several in the proverbial mine.” —CLR
“最终，”周写道，“格兰伯里只是众所周知的矿井中的金丝雀之一。” —CLR
## Ukraine’s Death-Defying Art Rescuers
## 乌克兰不畏死亡的艺术救援者
Charlotte Higgins | The Guardian | July 30, 2024 | 5,856 words
夏洛特·希金斯 |卫报| 2024 年 7 月 30 日 | 5,856 字
After a seemingly interminable period of creeping despair, it’s been strange the last few weeks to feel hopeful about the world.
在经历了一段看似无休止的、逐渐蔓延的绝望时期后，过去几周对世界充满希望是很奇怪的。
There’s a lot that’s still terrible—Gaza and climate change top my list, and perhaps yours—but the shifts in the US presidential race, with an assist by the bonhomie of the Olympics, have made me feel uncharacteristically buoyant.
还有很多事情仍然很可怕——加沙和气候变化是我的首要任务，也许也是你的首要任务——但美国总统竞选的变化，在奥运会的友善气氛的帮助下，让我感到异常的轻松。
So I was primed to love this story about Leonid Marushchak, who has made it his mission to save Ukraine’s art from the front lines of Russia’s invasion.
因此，我准备好喜欢这个关于列昂尼德·马鲁什恰克 (Leonid Marushchak) 的故事，他的使命是在俄罗斯入侵的前线拯救乌克兰的艺术。
Simply put, Marushchak is a hero, one who doesn’t wear a cape and who has to ride shotgun: because he doesn’t have a driver’s license, when he decided to start hauling his country’s irreplaceable heritage westward, he enlisted friends and loved ones to help him.
简而言之，马鲁什查克是一位英雄，一个不穿斗篷、必须骑着猎枪的英雄：因为他没有驾照，当他决定开始将国家不可替代的遗产向西运送时，他招募了朋友和亲人来帮助他。
He’s stowed paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and other objects into vans and trucks, then ferried them away from danger, covering tens of thousands of miles in the process.
他将绘画、雕塑、陶瓷和其他物品装入货车和卡车，然后将它们运送到远离危险的地方，整个过程行驶了数万英里。
“On one trip, what at first felt like an enormous pothole turned out to be the shock waves from a supersonic bomber, which all but knocked the van over,” Charlotte Higgins writes.
夏洛特·希金斯写道：“在一次旅行中，起初感觉像是一个巨大的坑洼，结果是一架超音速轰炸机的冲击波，几乎把货车撞翻了。”
“Another time, a Ukrainian tank almost crushed them by accident.” This piece is both a propulsive adventure story and a tender celebration of Ukrainian art, filled with beautiful writing about the objects Marushchak has rescued.
“还有一次，一辆乌克兰坦克差点不小心碾压了他们。”这部作品既是一个推进的冒险故事，也是对乌克兰艺术的温柔颂扬，充满了关于马鲁什查克拯救的物品的美丽文字。
Here is Higgins on babas, huge statues carved by Turkic nomads a millennium ago: “Age has blurred their facial features into inscrutability.
这是希金斯在巴巴上的雕像，这是一千年前突厥游牧民族雕刻的巨大雕像：“年龄已经使他们的面部特征变得难以理解。
Beside them, you feel a little smaller, a little more what you really are, which is to say a flimsy, short-lived creature of bone and muscle and soft tissue.” Swoon.
在它们旁边，你会感觉自己变小了一些，更接近真实的自己，也就是说，你是一个由骨骼、肌肉和软组织组成的脆弱、短命的生物。”昏厥。
—SD
—SD
## From Silicon to Slime
## 从硅到史莱姆
Willa Köerner | Dark Properties | August 5, 2024 | 2,879 words
威拉·科尔纳 |黑暗属性| 2024 年 8 月 5 日 | 2,879 字
Ever since reading this Ferris Jabr story about subterranean microbes, I’ve kept thinking about Earth’s tiniest organisms: simple life forms that are incredibly complex, doing invisible yet powerful work.
自从阅读了 Ferris Jabr 关于地下微生物的故事后，我一直在思考地球上最小的生物体：简单的生命形式极其复杂，做着看不见但强大的工作。
It’s easy to overlook life that emerges and unfolds at a smaller scale.
人们很容易忽视小范围内出现和展开的生命。
This illuminating conversation between Willa Köerner and Claire L.
Willa Köerner 和 Claire L. 之间的这段富有启发性的对话
Evans on the growing overlap between biology and computing is a nice follow-up to Jabr’s piece.
埃文斯关于生物学和计算机之间日益重叠的内容是贾布尔文章的一个很好的后续。
Evans, a writer we’ve featured in previous Top 5 lists, has written about science fiction, ecology, and technology—the work of an interdisciplinary mind with an inspiring view of the future.
埃文斯是我们之前在前 5 名榜单中推荐过的一位作家，他写过关于科幻小说、生态学和技术的作品，这是一位跨学科思维的作品，对未来有着鼓舞人心的看法。
Here, Evans challenges our outdated notions of computation; she says that every living thing processes information, or computes.
在这里，埃文斯挑战了我们过时的计算概念；她说每个生物都会处理信息或计算。
“At some point,” she tells Köerner, “I think we’ll fully realize that what’s happening in the natural world is more computationally efficient, inventive, and resilient than anything we could create from silicon.” Could a tree, roots and all, be a computer?
“在某个时刻，”她告诉科尔纳，“我认为我们会充分认识到，自然界中发生的事情比我们用硅创造的任何东西都更具计算效率、创造性和弹性。”一棵树，连同树根和所有的东西，能成为一台计算机吗？
An ant colony?
蚁群？
Is imagination a form of computation?
想象力是计算的一种形式吗？
What would be possible if humans looked to nature for more sustainable solutions that are cooperative rather than exploitative?
如果人类向大自然寻求更可持续的合作而非剥削的解决方案，将会发生什么？
This thought-provoking dialogue makes one thing clear: computers of the future won’t be made of metal and plastic.
这段发人深省的对话清楚地表明了一件事：未来的计算机不会由金属和塑料制成。
—CLR
—CLR
## He Was Convicted of Killing His Baby.
## 他被判谋杀婴儿罪。
The DA’s Office Says He’s Innocent, but That Might Not Be Enough.
地方检察官办公室称他是无辜的，但这可能还不够。
Pamela Colloff | ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine | July 11, 2024 | 8,853 words
帕梅拉·科洛夫 | ProPublica 和《纽约时报》杂志 | 2024 年 7 月 11 日 | 8,853 字
Investigative juggernaut Pamela Colloff has dedicated the last several years of her career to examining the intersection of junk science and criminal justice.
调查大师帕梅拉·科洛夫 (Pamela Colloff) 在职业生涯的最后几年致力于研究垃圾科学与刑事司法的交叉点。
In her latest piece, she tells the story of Russell Maze, a Tennessee man who was put in prison for life after a jury found him guilty in 2004 of killing his infant son.
在她的最新作品中，她讲述了田纳西州男子拉塞尔·梅兹 (Russell Maze) 的故事，陪审团在 2004 年判定他杀害了年幼的儿子有罪，他被判终身监禁。
The verdict rested on a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome, which has since come under a huge deal of scientific scrutiny, so much so that a new department in the Nashville prosecutor’s office dedicated to post-conviction relief took up Maze’s case and argued in favor of vacating his conviction.
判决的依据是婴儿摇晃综合症的诊断，此后该疾病受到了大量的科学审查，以至于纳什维尔检察官办公室专门负责定罪后救济的一个新部门接手了梅兹的案件，并主张撤销对他的定罪。
But as Colloff shows, even when scientific evidence casts serious doubt on a guilty verdict, and even when prosecutors are the ones saying that a defendant is innocent, the justice system can be intractable.
但正如科洛夫所表明的那样，即使科学证据对有罪判决产生严重怀疑，即使检察官声称被告无罪，司法系统也可能很棘手。
In other words, despite what many popular true crime podcasts and docuseries would have you think, science isn’t a surefire remedy for past injustice.
换句话说，尽管许多流行的真实犯罪播客和系列纪录片会让你想到什么，但科学并不是解决过去不公正现象的万全之策。
Colloff’s feature is a bracing reminder of how dangerously prone US justice is to doing things the way they’ve always been done, to relying on what’s familiar instead of what’s true.
科洛夫的这篇文章令人振奋地提醒人们，美国司法很容易以一贯的方式做事，依赖熟悉的东西而不是真实的东西，这是多么危险。
As an added bonus, in Colloff’s hands, an extended courtroom scene that’s all dialogue feels like something from a novel.
作为额外的好处，在科洛夫的手中，一个全是对话的扩展法庭场景感觉就像小说中的东西。
The climax of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold comes to mind.
我想起了《寒冬间谍》的高潮部分。
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## They Played Football as Children.
## 他们小时候踢足球。
Now Their Families Mourn.
现在他们的家人正在哀悼。
Alex Morris | Rolling Stone | September 9, 2023 | 8,154 words
亚历克斯·莫里斯 |滚石 | 2023 年 9 月 9 日 | 8,154 字
All over the US, school is starting back up, which means football season is nigh.
美国各地的学校正在重新开学，这意味着橄榄球赛季即将到来。
In fact, for many players, it’s already begun: high schoolers are toiling in intense preseason practice sessions known as two-a-days, and kids as young as five have been enrolled in Pop Warner’s tackle football offerings since the beginning of August.
事实上，对于许多球员来说，这一切已经开始了：高中生们正在紧张的季前训练中苦苦挣扎，这种训练被称为“一天两次”，自八月初以来，年仅五岁的孩子就已经报名参加 Pop Warner 的铲球课程。
My feelings about this annual juncture can be summed up in one word: why?
我对这个一年一度的时刻的感受可以用一个词来概括：为什么？
We know all too well at this point about the ravages of concussions sustained on the field.
此时此刻，我们对球场上脑震荡造成的破坏非常了解。
We’ve heard about the scientists studying former professional players’ brains, read the headlines about suicides committed by once-famous men with declining cognitive function, seen the maudlin but well-intentioned Will Smith movie about the doctor who faced breathtaking backlash for exposing a public health crisis funded and manufactured by the NFL.
我们听说过科学家研究前职业球员的大脑，读过关于认知功能下降的曾经著名人物自杀的头条新闻，看过威尔·史密斯伤感但善意的电影，讲述了一位医生因揭露美国国家橄榄球联盟资助和制造的公共卫生危机而面临惊人强烈反对的故事。
But as Alex Morris shows in a tremendous story published a year ago—I missed it while I was on a work sabbatical—young kids whose parents put them on the field are at risk, too, and diagnosed concussions aren’t the only concern.
但正如亚历克斯·莫里斯在一年前发表的一篇精彩报道中所表明的那样（我在工作休假期间错过了它），父母让他们上场的小孩子也面临着危险，而且诊断出的脑震荡并不是唯一的担忧。
So are “repeated, seemingly benign assaults to brain tissue, little ‘dings’ that could occur dozens of times in a single game and that a player may not even clock but that nonetheless cause damage at the cellular level—microscopically torn blood vessels, disconnected neurons, jumbled tau proteins (the building blocks of the fibers that carry nutrients and messages from cell to cell).” Through the stories of several young men, all of whom are now dead, Morris illustrates the toll football can take even if players pack up their helmet and cleats after high school.
同样，“对脑组织的重复的、看似良性的攻击，在一场游戏中可能出现数十次的小‘叮’声，玩家甚至可能不计时，但仍然会在细胞水平上造成损害——显微镜下的血管撕裂、神经元断开、混乱的 tau 蛋白（在细胞之间携带营养和信息的纤维的组成部分）。”通过几个现已去世的年轻人的故事，莫里斯说明了即使球员在高中毕业后收拾好头盔和防滑钉，足球也会造成的损失。
“America’s greatest game is hurting our children in insidious and incalculable ways,” Morris writes.
“美国最伟大的游戏正在以阴险且难以估量的方式伤害我们的孩子，”莫里斯写道。
“Addressing the issue might mean fundamentally changing the way we teach a game that has become fundamental to America’s sense of self.” That’s one approach.
“解决这个问题可能意味着从根本上改变我们教授这项运动的方式，这项运动已经成为美国人自我意识的基础。”这是一种方法。
Another is to stop letting kids—or anyone—play the game, period.
另一个方法是停止让孩子——或任何人——玩这个游戏。
I realize that’s never going to happen, because this is America, and our society thrives on a shared death drive.
我意识到这永远不会发生，因为这是美国，我们的社会在共同的死亡驱力下蓬勃发展。
But a girl can scream into the void.
但女孩可以对着虚空尖叫。
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## September
## 九月
## The Canary
## 金丝雀
Michael Lewis | The Washington Post | September 4, 2024 | 11,268 words
迈克尔·刘易斯 |华盛顿邮报 | 2024 年 9 月 4 日 | 11,268 字
This week, The Washington Post began a series in which journalists go long on government workers.
本周，《华盛顿邮报》开始了一系列记者对政府工作人员的报道。
Not politicians, not elected officials.
不是政客，不是民选官员。
Workers.
工人。
The men and women who actually make the wheels of bureaucracy turn.
真正推动官僚机构运转的男男女女。
(“[The journalists’] only brief,” says a note about the series, “was to go where they wanted, talk with whomever they wanted, and return with a story from deep within the vast, complex system Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss and celebrate.”) And while future installments will include stories from luminaries like Geraldine Brooks and Dave Eggers, the inaugural piece by Michael Lewis sets an unimaginably high bar.
（“[记者]唯一的简短，”关于该系列的注释说，“就是去他们想去的地方，与他们想要的任何人交谈，然后带着一个来自美国人所支付、反抗、依赖、驳回和庆祝的庞大复杂系统深处的故事回来。”）虽然未来的分期将包括杰拉尔丁·布鲁克斯和戴夫·艾格斯等名人的故事，但迈克尔·刘易斯的首篇文章设定了难以想象的高标准。
Searching for a subject—a story in its own right, and a thoroughly entertaining lede—Lewis happened upon Chris Mark, a former coal miner whose research revolutionized safety in the underground mining industry.
Searching for a subject—a story in its own right, and a thoroughly entertaining lede—Lewis happened upon Chris Mark, a former coal miner whose research revolutionized safety in the underground mining industry.
Sounds dry, right?
听起来很干，对吧？
So did baseball statistics before Moneyball.
在《点球成金》出现之前，棒球统计数据也是如此。
Just as Lewis’s beloved book found humanity in seemingly impenetrable data, so too does Chris Mark’s lifelong quest become as riveting as a rescue mission.
Just as Lewis’s beloved book found humanity in seemingly impenetrable data, so too does Chris Mark’s lifelong quest become as riveting as a rescue mission.
It helps that Mark is dream profile material even beyond his work: self-examined, articulate, and thoroughly uninterested in bullshit.
这有助于马克成为梦想中的个人资料材料，甚至超越了他的工作：自我审视、善于表达、对废话完全不感兴趣。
A mix of archival and contemporary photography perfectly contemplates the proceedings, with cave-ins of the 1940s giving way to Mark as a doctoral student and then again to him as an éminence grise of sorts, revisiting the sites where he first began answering the questions that no one had bothered asking.
档案和当代摄影的结合完美地展现了整个过程，1940 年代的塌方让位于博士生时期的马克，然后又回到了他作为某种显赫的灰色人物，重新访问了他第一次开始回答没人费心问的问题的地点。
So often we dismiss government by pointing to the creeping pace of change; with Mark’s life and work, that’s kind of the point.
我们经常通过指出变革的缓慢步伐来驳斥政府。对于马克的生活和工作来说，这就是重点。
Only by moving as slowly and methodically as a mining machine has he been able to transform risk in such a dangerous industry.
只有像采矿机一样缓慢而有条不紊地移动，他才能在如此危险的行业中转化风险。
—PR
——公关
## 40 Acres and a Lie
## 40 英亩和一个谎言
Alexia Fernández Campbell, April Simpson, and Pratheek Rebala | Mother Jones | June 14, 2024 | 3,550 words
亚历克西娅·费尔南德斯·坎贝尔、阿普丽尔·辛普森和普拉蒂克·雷巴拉 |琼斯妈妈 | 2024 年 6 月 14 日 | 3,550 字
We think of reparations for slavery as something that has yet to happen in the US.
我们认为对奴隶制的赔偿在美国尚未发生。
In truth, reparations did once happen: in 1865, the federal government issued land titles to a number of freed Black people along the coastlines of South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida.
事实上，赔偿确实曾经发生过：1865 年，联邦政府向南卡罗来纳州、佐治亚州和佛罗里达州东北部海岸线的一些获得自由的黑人颁发了土地所有权。
The titles were to plots as small as four acres and as large as 40.
土地所有权小至 4 英亩，大至 40 英亩。
But then, during Reconstruction, the government turned on its heel and returned much of the land to former slaveowners.
但随后，在重建期间，政府改变立场，将大部分土地归还给前奴隶主。
(Andrew Johnson: bad president, or the worst?) A team of reporters at Mother Jones, the Center for Public Integrity, and Reveal delved into records of these stolen land titles, which were only recently digitized, to grasp the true scale of the injustice.
（安德鲁·约翰逊：糟糕的总统，还是最糟糕的总统？） 琼斯母亲、公共诚信中心和 Reveal 的一组记者深入研究了这些被盗土地所有权的记录，这些记录最近才被数字化，以了解不公正现象的真正规模。
“There would’ve been a territory ranging from the Sea Islands to northern Florida that would’ve been essentially a coastal Black belt community,” a Duke historian tells the reporters.
“There would’ve been a territory ranging from the Sea Islands to northern Florida that would’ve been essentially a coastal Black belt community,” a Duke historian tells the reporters.
“That would’ve had very significant implications for Black economic wellbeing as well as Black political power.” Instead, economic inequality between Black and white people became the norm in the region.
“这将对黑人的经济福祉以及黑人的政治权力产生非常重大的影响。”相反，黑人和白人之间的经济不平等成为该地区的常态。
This remains the case today: the team found that wealthy communities—places with manicured golf courses, gleaming McMansions, and mostly white residents—exist on land once owned by freedmen, many of whose descendants have no idea their forebears were cheated out of an explicit foothold in the American dream.
This remains the case today: the team found that wealthy communities—places with manicured golf courses, gleaming McMansions, and mostly white residents—exist on land once owned by freedmen, many of whose descendants have no idea their forebears were cheated out of an explicit foothold in the American dream.
“40 Acres and a Lie” is a fine example of how to make a historical, document-based investigation feel vivid, tangible, and urgent.
《40 英亩和一个谎言》是一个很好的例子，说明了如何使历史性的、基于文献的调查变得生动、具体和紧迫。
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## The Fever Called Living
## 生活的热潮
Evan Malmgren | Harper’s Magazine | September 12, 2024 | 6,063 words
埃文·马尔姆格伦 |哈珀杂志 | 2024 年 9 月 12 日 | 6,063 字
Choosing between Mulder and Scully has always felt like an unfair binary.
在Mulder和Scully之间做出选择一直感觉像是一个不公平的二元对立。
Like Mulder, I want to believe; like Scully, I have a hard time actually doing so.
像穆德一样，我想要相信；和 Scully 一样，我实际上很难做到这一点。
Though I love listening to conspiracy and high-strangeness podcasts—hell, being a guest on Coast to Coast AM remains a highlight of my professional life—I’ve also never had much truck with cryptids or chemtrails or the idea that cell phone towers are scrambling our brains.
Though I love listening to conspiracy and high-strangeness podcasts—hell, being a guest on Coast to Coast AM remains a highlight of my professional life—I’ve also never had much truck with cryptids or chemtrails or the idea that cell phone towers are scrambling our brains.
Yet, reading Evan Malmgren’s Harper’s feature about people struggling with environmental illness made me feel like my skepticism may have veered into coldheartedness.
Yet, reading Evan Malmgren’s Harper’s feature about people struggling with environmental illness made me feel like my skepticism may have veered into coldheartedness.
There’s no question that the folks Malmgren spends time with are suffering.
毫无疑问，与马尔姆格伦共度时光的人们都在受苦。
There’s also no question that the air and our bodies are filled with signals and substances that simply didn’t exist until relatively recently.
毫无疑问，空气和我们的身体充满了直到最近才存在的信号和物质。
Who am I to dismiss conditions like electromagnetic hypersensitivity or multiple chemical sensitivity out of hand?
我有什么资格去排除诸如电磁超敏反应或多重化学敏感性之类的情况？
What makes this piece so compelling is that Malmgren gives free voice to his own struggle between distrust and acceptance.
这篇文章之所以如此引人注目，是因为马尔姆格伦自由地表达了他自己在不信任和接受之间的斗争。
Like anyone, he has questions about the nature of these conditions, but his curiosity doesn’t mean ridicule.
和任何人一样，他对这些情况的本质有疑问，但他的好奇心并不意味着嘲笑。
That leads to something truly rare: a compassionate, good-faith investigation into something that’s nearly impossible to quantify.
这导致了真正罕见的事情：对几乎无法量化的事情进行富有同情心、真诚的调查。
The truth is out there, even if we never find it.
真相就在那里，即使我们永远找不到它。
—PR
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## The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
## 塔-内西斯·科茨的回归
Ryu Spaeth | New York Magazine | September 23, 2024 | 7,165 words
柳·斯佩斯 |纽约杂志 | 2024 年 9 月 23 日 | 7,165 字
Once among the most prolific political and social commentators in the US, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been relatively quiet for the last decade.
塔内西斯·科茨曾经是美国最多产的政治和社会评论员之一，但在过去十年中一直相对安静。
(Emphasis on relatively: Coates has written a best-selling novel and several comic books; guest-edited an issue of Vanity Fair about race, violence, and protest; and dipped his toe into screenwriting.) Next week, he’s turning up the volume once again with the release of his new book, The Message.
(Emphasis on relatively: Coates has written a best-selling novel and several comic books; guest-edited an issue of Vanity Fair about race, violence, and protest; and dipped his toe into screenwriting.) Next week, he’s turning up the volume once again with the release of his new book, The Message.
According to the publisher’s description, Coates’s book “is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.” Central among those truths is Israel’s violent, decades-long subjugation of Palestinians, and US institutions’ complicity in sustaining what Coates sees as a system akin to Jim Crow.
According to the publisher’s description, Coates’s book “is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.” Central among those truths is Israel’s violent, decades-long subjugation of Palestinians, and US institutions’ complicity in sustaining what Coates sees as a system akin to Jim Crow.
As Ryu Spaeth explains in this wise, probing profile, which doubles as a necessary piece of media criticism, many of those same institutions have championed Coates.
As Ryu Spaeth explains in this wise, probing profile, which doubles as a necessary piece of media criticism, many of those same institutions have championed Coates.
This positions The Message as a professional risk, but Coates is more concerned with morality than he is with power, something that far too few people in media can rightfully claim to be.
This positions The Message as a professional risk, but Coates is more concerned with morality than he is with power, something that far too few people in media can rightfully claim to be.
As Spaeth shows, Coates is an unusual public intellectual in his willingness not just to change his thinking about an issue but to put that evolution on display.
As Spaeth shows, Coates is an unusual public intellectual in his willingness not just to change his thinking about an issue but to put that evolution on display.
He’s open to learning, to critique, and to using the process of writing to work out what he means to say.
他乐于学习、批评，并乐于利用写作的过程来弄清楚他想说什么。
In an era when people with platforms tend to be obsessed with their own certitude, facts be damned, this is a breath of fresh air.
在一个拥有平台的人往往沉迷于自己的确定性的时代，不管事实如何，这真是一股新鲜空气。
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## October
## 十月
## Maylia and Jack
## 梅莉亚和杰克
Lizzie Presser | ProPublica | September 28, 2024 | 7,738 words
莉齐·普雷瑟 | ProPublica | 2024 年 9 月 28 日 | 7,738 字
On its surface, this is a story about a drug dealer and one of her customers, who overdosed on fentanyl he bought from her, thinking it was Percocet.
从表面上看，这是一个关于一名毒贩和她的一位顾客的故事，顾客过量服用了从她那里购买的芬太尼，以为这是Percocet。
But Lizzie Presser’s latest feature isn’t a clear-cut story about a perpetrator and victim.
但莉齐·普雷瑟的最新剧情片并不是一个关于肇事者和受害者的清晰故事。
It’s far more tragic than that.
事情比这更悲惨。
Maylia and Jack are both kids, two of the untold number of minors caught up in one side or the other of the burgeoning fentanyl trade afflicting the US.
Maylia and Jack are both kids, two of the untold number of minors caught up in one side or the other of the burgeoning fentanyl trade afflicting the US.
Maylia didn’t know the extent of the harm she was abetting when she sold pills; Jack didn’t know the danger he faced when he crushed and smoked what he bought from her.
梅莉亚并不知道她出售药丸时所造成的伤害有多大。杰克不知道当他压碎并吸食从她那里买来的东西时，他所面临的危险。
And how could they?
他们怎么能呢？
Institutions failed them left and right, providing virtually no knowledge or other resources that might have saved either of them from their respective fates.
机构让他们左右为难，几乎没有提供任何知识或其他资源来挽救他们各自的命运。
In Maylia’s case, there was a dysfunctional, abusive family who provided her no life guidance, and the police, who knew the pills she was selling were fentanyl but didn’t stop her from doing so.
In Maylia’s case, there was a dysfunctional, abusive family who provided her no life guidance, and the police, who knew the pills she was selling were fentanyl but didn’t stop her from doing so.
In Jack’s case, there was the aforementioned police, who might have saved his life, as well as educational and rehab systems that didn’t sound the alarm bells that he (and his now-grieving mother) so desperately needed to hear.
在杰克的案例中，前面提到的警察可能救了他的命，教育和康复系统也没有敲响他（和他现在悲伤的母亲）迫切需要听到的警钟。
Both Maylia and Jack were failed by a criminal justice system woefully under-equipped to grapple with the impact of illegal drugs on children.
梅利亚和杰克都因刑事司法系统的能力不足而未能应对非法毒品对儿童的影响。
Presser tells a tough but necessary story—one without heroes or answers, but with compassion to spare.
普雷瑟讲述了一个艰难但必要的故事——没有英雄或答案，但充满同情心。
—SD
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## When the Arctic Melts
## 当北极融化时
Elizabeth Kolbert | The New Yorker | October 7, 2024 | 8,090 words
伊丽莎白·科尔伯特 |纽约客 | 2024 年 10 月 7 日 | 8,090 字
For The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert visits Greenland to witness climate change firsthand.
伊丽莎白·科尔伯特为《纽约客》访问格陵兰岛，亲眼目睹气候变化。
Her first stop: N.S.F.
她的第一站：N.S.F.
Summit Station, a research facility that sits more than 10,000 feet above sea level.
峰会站是一座海拔超过 10,000 英尺的研究设施。
There, she begins to explain the volatile history of our planet’s climate.
在那里，她开始解释我们星球气候的动荡历史。
As Kolbert notes, scientists believe there have been at least 10 ice ages over the past 2.5 million years, initiated by Jupiter and Saturn’s influence on Earth.
As Kolbert notes, scientists believe there have been at least 10 ice ages over the past 2.5 million years, initiated by Jupiter and Saturn’s influence on Earth.
The big planets can shift Earth’s orbit slightly, and how our planet reacts to this interplanetary tug can set new temperature patterns in motion.
The big planets can shift Earth’s orbit slightly, and how our planet reacts to this interplanetary tug can set new temperature patterns in motion.
At Summit, there’s so much to learn—even from the snow that has fallen on Greenland over the past 2,000 years.
在 Summit，有很多东西值得学习——即使是从过去 2000 年来格陵兰岛降雪的情况来看也是如此。
While climate change reading is almost always understandably and justifiably fraught, the tone here leans more toward wonder; Kolbert pairs deep curiosity and respect for the Earth, and offers much-needed context on our planet’s ever-changing ways.
虽然有关气候变化的读物几乎总是令人担忧，这是可以理解和合理的，但这里的语气更倾向于好奇；科尔伯特将深深的好奇心和对地球的尊重结合起来，并为我们这个星球不断变化的方式提供了急需的背景信息。
“Much of the new science suggests that the climate is, all on its own, unstable, prone to dramatic and sometimes sudden shifts,” she writes.
“许多新科学表明，气候本身是不稳定的，容易发生剧烈的、有时甚至是突然的变化，”她写道。
While humans have undoubtedly helped accelerate global warming and changing weather patterns, it was sobering to learn that our role is but one piece of a very large, complex, and fascinating puzzle.
虽然人类无疑加速了全球变暖和气候模式的变化，但令人清醒的是，我们的角色只是一个非常大、复杂且令人着迷的谜题中的一小部分。
—KS
—KS
## A Shark Attack and a Terrorist Bombing: This Is a Love Story
## 鲨鱼袭击和恐怖爆炸：这是一个爱情故事
Paul Kix | Esquire | October 14, 2024 | 8,689 words
保罗·基克斯 |时尚先生 | 2024 年 10 月 14 日 | 8,689 字
If calamity has a silver lining, it’s that it tends to bring people together.
如果说灾难有一线希望的话，那就是它往往能让人们团结起来。
Ask the North Carolinians and Floridians coming together to rebuild after catastrophic flooding.
要求北卡罗来纳州和佛罗里达州在灾难性洪水后团结起来进行重建。
Ask the New Yorkers who walked toward the danger on 9/11.
问问那些在 9/11 事件中走向危险的纽约人。
Ask the people in recovery who get sober and find their life’s mission in serving fellow addicts.
问问那些正在康复中的人，他们变得清醒了，并发现他们的人生使命是为其他瘾君子服务。
Ask Colin Cook and Sydney Corcoran, whose lives were upended thousands of miles apart by twin disasters—and then grew toward one another, ultimately intertwining.
问问科林·库克和西德尼·科科伦吧，他们的生活因两次灾难而相距数千英里，但随后却逐渐走向彼此，最终交织在一起。
Colin lost his leg to a shark while surfing in Hawaii; Sydney nearly bled out after shrapnel from the Boston Marathon bombing pierced her femoral artery.
科林在夏威夷冲浪时被鲨鱼夺去了一条腿；波士顿马拉松爆炸事件的弹片刺穿了悉尼的股动脉，她差点失血过多。
Separately, they groped toward healing, until their mothers met at a prosthetic center and hatched a plan.
他们各自摸索着康复，直到他们的母亲在假肢中心见面并制定了一个计划。
Paul Kix tells their stories beautifully for Esquire, chronicling their courtship with the same unflinching detail he uses to recount their life-altering traumas.
保罗·基克斯（Paul Kix）为《时尚先生》精彩地讲述了他们的故事，以同样毫不畏缩的细节记录了他们的求爱过程，他用同样的细节讲述了他们改变生活的创伤。
He doesn’t just reconstruct, though.
不过，他不只是重建。
He inhabits.
他居住。
And in the process, he enables a feature in which you live alongside the characters, even inside them.
在此过程中，他启用了一项功能，让你与角色一起生活，甚至在他们的内心生活。
Like this moment, capturing Sydney fighting to stay conscious in an ambulance: “I know I’m going, she thought, and I had an okay run.
就像这个时刻，捕捉到悉尼在救护车上努力保持意识的情景：“我知道我要走了，她想，而且我跑得还不错。
A spreading serene sensation.
一种平静的感觉蔓延开来。
Still the low rumble of tires over Boston’s streets, still the syncopated movements of a person, or people, carrying out tasks with urgency, but now a warmth of care emanated from these others, mirroring the warmth that spread inside Sydney.
波士顿街道上仍然传来轮胎低沉的隆隆声，仍然是一个人或一群人在紧急执行任务时的切分动作，但现在这些人身上散发出温暖的关怀，反映了悉尼市内蔓延的温暖。
This is one of the most peaceful moments I have ever known, she thought.” This is a love story, as the headline says, but it’s also a special story.
这是我所知道的最平静的时刻之一，她想。”正如标题所说，这是一个爱情故事，但也是一个特殊的故事。
It’ll make you feel things.
它会让你感受到一些事情。
Some horror, sure, but mostly hope.
当然，有些恐惧，但主要是希望。
—PR
——公关
## How Elderly Dementia Patients Are Unwittingly Fueling Political Campaigns
## 老年痴呆症患者如何在不知不觉中助长政治运动
Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard, Casey Tolan, Lou Robinson, and Byron Manley | CNN | October 22, 2024 | 3,984 words
布莱克·埃利斯、梅兰妮·希肯、叶海亚·阿布-加扎拉、奥黛丽·阿什、京拉、安娜-玛雅·拉帕德、凯西·托兰、卢·罗宾逊和拜伦·曼利 |美国有线电视新闻网 | 2024 年 10 月 22 日 | 3,984 字
Some days I feel like I receive more texts and emails from political candidates and campaigns than I do from friends and family.
有时候，我觉得我收到的来自政治候选人和竞选活动的短信和电子邮件比来自朋友和家人的还多。
Last week, I was invited to sign Kamala Harris’s birthday card on a website where I was also asked to “chip in” to her campaign coffers.
上周，我受邀在一个网站上签署卡玛拉·哈里斯的生日贺卡，同时还要求我为她的竞选金库“捐款”。
In August, Ted Cruz asked if I could spare a dollar, and he apologized that it wasn’t the first time he’d come begging.
八月份，特德·克鲁兹问我是否可以给我一美元，他道歉说这不是他第一次来乞讨。
You’ve probably had this experience, too.
您可能也有过这样的经历。
The use of people’s personal contact information to solicit political donations en masse is out of control, and the tone of the requests is creepy.
利用人们的个人联系信息大规模募集政治捐款的行为已经失控，而且请求的语气令人毛骨悚然。
Sometimes a message is awkwardly intimate (I am not your “friend,” Mark Kelly); other times it’s scolding (“Despite texting you MANY TIMES…”).
有时，一条信息过于亲密（我不是你的“朋友”，马克·凯利）；有时是责骂（“尽管给你发了很多次短信……”）。
I usually ignore the messages, as I suspect most people do; I’ve also found that replying “f— off” gets you an automatic unsubscribe.
我通常会忽略这些消息，我怀疑大多数人都会这样做；我还发现回复“f-off”会让你自动取消订阅。
But, as this CNN investigation reveals, this public nuisance has an exploitative underbelly that warrants scrutiny.
但是，正如 CNN 的调查所揭示的那样，这种公害行为具有值得仔细审查的剥削性弱点。
There are vulnerable people who engage with the messages in earnest.
有些弱势群体认真地参与这些信息。
They really think they’re being contacted by some of the most powerful people in the US, and that the fate of the country is in their hands.
他们确实认为美国一些最有权势的人正在与他们联系，并且国家的命运掌握在他们手中。
These people are elderly Americans with dementia.
这些人是患有痴呆症的美国老年人。
They’ve hemorrhaged life savings and put their children in debt by donating huge amounts to campaigns.
他们为竞选活动捐赠巨额资金，耗尽了毕生积蓄，并让自己的孩子负债累累。
Often, they’ve unwittingly signed up for recurring payments on popular donation platforms thanks to pre-checked boxes and fine print that they either don’t notice or read and forget.
通常，他们会不知不觉地在流行的捐赠平台上注册定期付款，这要归功于他们没有注意到或阅读后忘记的预先勾选的框和细则。
“Recurring donations only multiply as confirmed donors become valuable political currency—their names and contact information quickly swapped and sold,” the authors of the investigation explain.
调查作者解释说：“当确认的捐赠者成为有价值的政治货币时，经常性捐赠只会成倍增加——他们的名字和联系信息很快就会被交换和出售。”
“And once WinRed or ActBlue has a donor’s financial information, donations can be triggered by actions including a response to an online survey, an order of campaign merchandise, or a one-word reply to a text message.” I uttered “oh my god” under my breath a lot while reading this story, but that passage made me say something else, at volume: “f— off.” —SD
“一旦 WinRed 或 ActBlue 掌握了捐赠者的财务信息，就可以通过在线调查的回复、竞选商品的订单或短信的一句话回复等行动来触发捐赠。”在读这个故事时，我经常低声说“哦，我的上帝”，但那段话让我大声地说了一些其他的话：“滚蛋。” —SD
## November
## 十一月
## Inside Israel’s Fight to Make Fathers of Its Dead Soldiers
## 以色列为阵亡士兵立为父亲的斗争的内幕
Jenny Kleeman | FT Magazine | October 24, 2024 | 5,282 words
珍妮·克莱曼 |英国《金融时报》杂志 | 2024 年 10 月 24 日 | 5,282 字
Among the most morbid decisions we humans have to make is what to do with our bodies once we’re dead.
我们人类必须做出的最病态的决定之一就是死后如何处理我们的身体。
Do we want to donate our organs?
我们想捐献我们的器官吗？
Do we want to be buried, cremated, or composted?
我们想要被埋葬、火化还是堆肥？
Here, Jenny Kleeman pulls back the curtain on a different kind of corporal decision.
在这里，珍妮·克莱曼揭开了另一种不同的肉体决定的帷幕。
Since beginning its relentless assault on Gaza last year, the Israeli government has offered the families of biologically male soldiers who die in action the option of postmortem sperm retrieval (PMSR).
自从去年开始对加沙进行无情的攻击以来，以色列政府为阵亡的男性士兵的家属提供了死后取精（PMSR）的选择。
Kleeman positions the phenomenon as uniquely Israeli.
克利曼将这种现象视为以色列独有的现象。
“In a country where many are descendants of Holocaust survivors, family continuation is deemed paramount,” she writes.
“在一个许多人都是大屠杀幸存者后裔的国家，家庭的延续被认为是最重要的，”她写道。
PMSR can be requested by a dead person’s spouse or parents, regardless of what he may have wanted, and that makes the policy an ethical minefield.
死者的配偶或父母可以要求 PMSR，无论他想要什么，这使得该政策成为道德雷区。
Kleeman does a brilliant job mapping it.
克莱曼（Kleeman）在绘制它方面做得非常出色。
She interviews medical professionals tasked with preserving sperm, a lawyer vigorously promoting PMSR, families who’ve requested retrieval, some who have used sperm to conceive a child, and an academic who has polled soldiers about the policy.
她采访了负责保存精子的医疗专业人员、一位大力推广 PMSR 的律师、要求取回精子的家庭、一些使用精子怀孕的家庭，以及一位就这项政策对士兵进行民意调查的学者。
This story doesn’t miss a beat.
这个故事没有错过任何一个节拍。
When the PMSR advocate says, “Don’t ask me about the child’s rights, because there is no such thing,” Kleeman writes, “Of course, I do have to ask her about the child’s rights.
当 PMSR 倡导者说：“不要问我关于儿童权利的问题，因为根本不存在这样的事情，”克利曼写道，“当然，我必须问她关于儿童权利的问题。
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When I suggest that a child created in these circumstances might feel the burden of the hopes and expectations of grandparents who fought so hard to have him or her, she bats the idea away.
当我建议在这种情况下出生的孩子可能会感受到祖父母的希望和期望的负担，他们为拥有他或她而付出了巨大的努力，但她拒绝了这个想法。
‘This is bullshit.
‘这是胡说八道。
It’s very nice to be born in a great family that loves you, that worked so hard to have you.’” I can’t stop thinking and talking about this story; there’s just so much to unpack legally, ethically, and otherwise.
出生在一个爱你的伟大家庭真是太好了，他们为拥有你而付出了巨大的努力。’”我无法停止思考和谈论这个故事；我无法停止思考和谈论这个故事。在法律、道德和其他方面，有太多东西需要解开。
Ultimately, Kleeman confronts readers with another morbid question: what do the dead owe the living?
最终，克莱曼向读者提出了另一个病态的问题：死者欠生者什么？
—SD
—SD
## What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon
## 我从纽约马拉松比赛中自我毁灭中学到了什么
Will Leitch | New York Magazine | November 5, 2024 | 2,186 words
威尔·雷奇 |纽约杂志 | 2024 年 11 月 5 日 | 2,186 字
I read this piece on Wednesday.
我星期三读了这篇文章。
This is an important fact.
这是一个重要的事实。
All I wanted to read on Wednesday was something that affirmed the idea that decency existed in the universe.
周三我想读的只是一些肯定宇宙中存在正派这一观点的书。
Is that histrionic?
这很戏剧化吗？
Probably a little.
大概有一点。
Does it matter?
有关系吗？
Probably not.
可能不会。
Because Will Leitch’s story about running the NYC Marathon is eminently decent.
因为威尔·雷奇（Will Leitch）关于参加纽约马拉松比赛的故事非常精彩。
It is about the very real, very uplifiting sensation of being cheered on in a very difficult pursuit.
这是关于在非常困难的追求中受到欢呼的非常真实、非常令人振奋的感觉。
Look, the people running a marathon are not the healthcare workers heading back to the hospital in the spring of 2020.
你看，跑马拉松的人不是2020年春天回到医院的医护人员。
(I’m sure some are, but you know what I mean.) For the most part, they’re not heroes simply because they’re running 26.2 miles.
（我确信有些人是英雄，但你知道我的意思。）在大多数情况下，他们并不是英雄，仅仅因为他们跑了 26.2 英里。
(Again, some are.) But on race days like this one, the air is suffused with something special.
（同样，有些是。）但是在像这样的比赛日，空气中弥漫着一种特殊的味道。
“Much has been written about the joyous lovefest that is the New York City Marathon, but I’m not sure it can be emphasized enough,” Leitch writes.
“关于纽约市马拉松的欢乐爱情盛宴，人们已经写了很多文章，但我不确定它是否能得到足够的强调，”雷奇写道。
“People can be mean and cruel and inconsiderate; we all see it every day.
“人们可能会变得卑鄙、残忍和不体贴他人；我们每天都看到这样的情况。
But this was something basic and elemental: human beings supporting other human beings, simply because they are other human beings.” It feels good to be cheered, especially when you’re in mile 19 and you feel like the next seven miles are an impossibility, but it also feels good to cheer.
但这是基本和基本的事情：人类支持其他人类，仅仅因为他们是其他人类。”受到欢呼的感觉很好，尤其是当你在第 19 英里时，你感觉接下来的 7 英里是不可能的，但欢呼的感觉也很好。
It feels good in a way that is, sadly, rare.
可悲的是，这种感觉很好，但很罕见。
It feels like community.
感觉就像社区。
And it’s exactly what I needed to be reminded of.
这正是我需要提醒的。
—PR
——公关
## There Is No Place like Home, Whatever That Is
## 没有一个地方比得上家，无论那是什么
Jeannette Cooperman | The Common Reader | September 30, 2024 | 5,484 words
珍妮特·库珀曼 |普通读者| 2024 年 9 月 30 日 | 5,484 字
In my 20s and 30s, rootlessness made life more exciting.
在我20多岁和30多岁的时候，漂泊让生活变得更加精彩。
I traveled solo around the world, exploring cities that I decided to call home for months at a time.
我独自环游世界，探索那些我决定一次称之为家的城市。
In between these trips, I always returned to California, back to my parents’ nest.
在这些旅行之间，我总是回到加利福尼亚，回到我父母的巢穴。
Jeannette Cooperman encapsulates this nicely: “I fancy myself rootless—yet the isotopes of my childhood home are locked inside the enamel of my teeth.” I’ve since slowed down, but still feel like I haven’t planted roots anywhere: my husband and I have moved six times in 10 years.
珍妮特·库珀曼（Jeannette Cooperman）很好地概括了这一点：“我幻想自己没有根基，但我童年故乡的同位素却被锁在我的牙釉质里。”从那以后我放慢了脚步，但仍然感觉自己没有在任何地方扎根：我和丈夫在十年内搬了六次家。
In this essay, Cooperman examines home from different angles, suggesting that people have their own definitions of the word, which evolves as our lives do.
在这篇文章中，库珀曼从不同的角度审视了家，表明人们对这个词有自己的定义，它随着我们的生活而演变。
“In the first years of life, your home is your entire universe,” she writes.
“在生命的最初几年，你的家就是你的整个宇宙，”她写道。
That childhood home might be familiar and comforting, as mine was (and still is, despite the bit of dread that’s inevitably tied to any parental visit).
那个童年的家可能是熟悉和令人安慰的，就像我的一样（现在仍然如此，尽管父母的来访不可避免地会带来一点恐惧）。
Or, as with Cooperman, it may not.
或者，就像库珀曼一样，也可能不会。
“My great aunts lived upstairs and my grandparents downstairs, with me and my widowed mother tucked into the second bedroom,” she writes.
“我的姑婆住在楼上，我的祖父母住在楼下，我和寡居的母亲住在第二间卧室，”她写道。
“We always felt like boarders, though only now can I articulate that.” She also writes about finding home within her partner, Andrew: “He is home for me.
“我们总是感觉自己像寄宿生，尽管直到现在我才能清楚地表达出来。”她还写到在她的伴侣安德鲁身上找到了家：“他是我的家。
And I hate that fact.
我讨厌这个事实。
I love my husband with every ounce of energy I possess, but if he is my home, what happens if he dies first?
我全心全意地爱我的丈夫，但如果他是我的家，如果他先死怎么办？
I am homeless, adrift forever?” Home, too, can extend beyond your front door to your neighborhood, where we “bond by territory,” where we find a community in which we belong.
我无家可归，永远漂泊？”家也可以从你的前门延伸到你的社区，在那里我们“通过领土联系在一起”，在那里我们找到了一个我们所属的社区。
It’s this type of network that I continue to search for as an adult, and now a parent, in a time when people retreat into their private spaces more and socialize less.
作为一个成年人和现在的父母，在人们更多地退回自己的私人空间、更少社交的时代，我继续寻找这种类型的网络。
I appreciate Cooperman’s ruminations here because I think, perhaps obsessively, about what would make my ideal home.
我很欣赏库珀曼在这里的沉思，因为我也许痴迷地思考什么才是我理想的家。
It’s an exercise that feels more urgent in times of despair—a constant wondering of where our true home is in the world, or if a perfect place exists for us.
这是一种在绝望的时候感觉更加紧迫的练习——不断地想知道我们真正的家在世界上哪里，或者是否存在一个适合我们的完美地方。
“If you have someplace like that to return to,” writes Cooperman, “why would you not?” —CLR
“如果你有这样的地方可以回去，”库珀曼写道，“你为什么不呢？” —CLR
## The Invisible Man
## 隐形人
Patrick Fealey | Esquire | November 14, 2024 | 9,552 words
帕特里克·费利 |时尚先生 | 2024 年 11 月 14 日 | 9,552 字
You’ve read reports about the homelessness crisis.
您已经阅读过有关无家可归危机的报道。
You’ve heard the voices of those experiencing homelessness and seen the analysis of the many, many factors that have contributed to the surge.
您已经听到了无家可归者的声音，也看到了对导致无家可归者激增的许多因素的分析。
But you’ve likely not read a more searing firsthand account of what it’s like to be unhoused in this country.
但你可能没有读过更尖锐的第一手资料，了解在这个国家无家可归的感受。
Patrick Fealey has been a writer for his entire life; first as an award-winning newspaper reporter and critic, then as an unemployed one struggling with manic depression, then as one living in his car in a coastal Rhode Island town, writing all day on an old laptop plugged into the lighter and sleeping in a Walmart parking lot at night.
帕特里克·费利 (Patrick Fealey) 一生都是一名作家。首先是一名屡获殊荣的报纸记者和评论家，然后是一名与躁狂抑郁症作斗争的失业者，然后是住在罗德岛沿海小镇的车里，整天在一台插着打火机的旧笔记本电脑上写作，晚上睡在沃尔玛停车场。
Fealey has no illusions about the medications he needs to function, or the beer he needs to cope with his current circumstances.
费利对他需要维持功能的药物或应对当前情况所需的啤酒不抱任何幻想。
He also has no illusions about the parade of police officers who confront him under shaky pretense, the social safety net that’s never enough, or the people who avoid even acknowledging his existence.
他对那些以摇摇欲坠的借口与他对峙的警察、永远不够的社会安全网，或者甚至避免承认他的存在的人们也不抱任何幻想。
“If ‘I think, therefore I am’ is true,” he writes, “we are people who are.
“如果‘我思故我在’是真的，”他写道，“我们就是这样的人。
We are, and we stand on this ground.
我们是，我们也站在这片土地上。
If you deny us ground, you are denying us our ‘I am.’ Isn’t that negation of our existence?
如果你否认我们的立场，你就是在否认我们的“我是”。这不是对我们存在的否定吗？
We are here and we are you and we are yours.” Fealey saves his lyricism for his fiction and poetry; his prose needs no embellishment to cut through your defenses.
我们在这里，我们就是你，我们就是你的。”费利将抒情性保留在小说和诗歌中。他的散文不需要修饰就能突破你的防线。
The uncertainty, the instability, the danger that pervades his life worms off the page and into your brain.
他的生活充满了不确定性、不稳定和危险，这些都从书页上爬进了你的大脑。
I don’t know if Fealey is still on the street, or if the payment for this story helped him get out of his car and into some permanent housing.
我不知道费利是否还在街上，也不知道这个故事的报酬是否帮助他下了车，住进了一些永久住房。
But I do know that even if he’s somewhere warm and safe, there are many hundreds of thousands who aren’t—and his piece makes sure no one who reads it will ever forget that fact.
但我确实知道，即使他在温暖和安全的地方，还有成千上万的人不在温暖和安全的地方——而他的文章确保读过它的人永远不会忘记这一事实。
—PR
——公关
## December
## 十二月
## Black Earth
## 黑土
Christina Cooke | The Bitter Southerner | November 25, 2024 | 8,027 words
克里斯蒂娜·库克 |苦涩的南方人 | 2024 年 11 月 25 日 | 8,027 字
Patrick Chandler Brown was born a few months after his father was arrested for protesting against North Carolina; the state dumped 40,000 tons of toxic, PCB-laden soil into his community anyway, contaminating the land and water.
帕特里克·钱德勒·布朗 (Patrick Chandler Brown) 出生于他的父亲因抗议北卡罗来纳州而被捕几个月后。无论如何，该州向他的社区倾倒了 40,000 吨有毒、富含多氯联苯的土壤，污染了土地和水源。
“That’s how I got my name, PCB — Patrick Chandler Brown,” he says.
“这就是我的名字 PCB——帕特里克·钱德勒·布朗（Patrick Chandler Brown）的由来，”他说。
“I was named after what happened.” Today, Brown farms industrial hemp and vegetables as the owner of the Oakley Grove plantation, land on which his great-grandfather was once enslaved.
“我是根据发生的事情命名的。”如今，布朗作为奥克利格罗夫种植园的所有者种植工业大麻和蔬菜，他的曾祖父曾在这片土地上被奴役。
Industrial hemp helps remediate soil and Brown favors organic and regenerative methods over pesticide-reliant crops such as tobacco.
工业大麻有助于修复土壤，与烟草等依赖农药的作物相比，布朗更喜欢有机和再生方法。
He supports a community hard-pressed to access fresh food with a vegetable box program and works to open up opportunities for Black farmers and entrepreneurs.
他通过蔬菜盒计划支持难以获取新鲜食品的社区，并努力为黑人农民和企业家创造机会。
Christina Cooke’s story flourishes detail by original detail.
克里斯蒂娜·库克的故事细节丰富，细节丰富。
She uses small brushstrokes of vivid color to paint a portrait of Brown, his farming operation, and his climate and social advocacy work, alongside his family’s long history of community service and activism.
她用鲜艳色彩的小笔触描绘了布朗、他的农业经营、他的气候和社会倡导工作，以及他的家族在社区服务和激进主义方面的悠久历史。
“’Now I own it,’ he says, holding in his palm the weighty set of skeleton keys that unlock the doors of Oakley Grove house and the outbuildings surrounding it,” Cooke writes.
“‘现在我拥有了它，’他说，手里拿着一套沉重的万能钥匙，可以打开奥克利格罗夫住宅及其周围附属建筑的门，”库克写道。
“While his ancestors were forced to inhabit this place, he is choosing to, and transforming it into a space that serves his needs.” This story is rooted in toxic aggression and environmental racism.
“虽然他的祖先被迫居住在这个地方，但他选择这样做，并将其改造成一个满足他需要的空间。”这个故事植根于有毒的侵略和环境种族主义。
But Patrick Chandler Brown has turned the soil.
但帕特里克·钱德勒·布朗已经改变了土壤。
Where once oppression grew and proliferated under the horrors and injustices of slavery, where once the state of North Carolina literally dumped poison on the land, today Oakley Grove plantation is fertile with a new sustainable crop—hope.
奴隶制的恐怖和不公正曾经使压迫不断增长和扩散，北卡罗来纳州曾经在土地上倾倒毒药，如今奥克利格罗夫种植园却孕育着一种新的可持续作物——希望。
—KS
—KS
## Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town.
## 阿片类药物肆虐肯塔基州小镇。
Then Rehab Became Its Business.
然后康复就成了它的生意。
Oliver Whang | The New York Times Magazine | December 11, 2024 | 5,763 words
奥利弗·王 |纽约时报杂志 | 2024 年 12 月 11 日 | 5,763 字
When I was growing up in southern Indiana, schoolyard jokes habitually came at Kentuckians’ expense.
当我在印第安纳州南部长大时，校园笑话习惯性地以肯塔基州人为代价。
This was apparently just one link in a cruel chain; I later learned that Michiganders did the same thing with us Hoosiers, and I assume Kentucky kids cast Tennesseeans as the backward yokels in their versions.
这显然只是残酷链条中的一环；后来我了解到密歇根人对我们印第安人做了同样的事情，我猜肯塔基州的孩子们在他们的版本中把田纳西州人视为落后的乡巴佬。
I bring this up not because any of these characterizations are true, but to show that we’ve all had our humanity distorted by other people’s stories.
我提出这一点并不是因为这些描述都是真实的，而是为了表明我们所有人的人性都被别人的故事扭曲了。
Oliver Whang’s deeply reported feature about Louisa, a small town in eastern Kentucky, avoids this trap by never acknowledging such distortions in the first place.
奥利弗·王 (Oliver Whang) 对肯塔基州东部小镇路易莎 (Louisa) 进行深度报道的专题报道通过从一开始就从未承认这种扭曲而避免了这个陷阱。
Louisa, like so many other places in the region, has been hollowed out by opioids.
路易莎和该地区许多其他地方一样，已经被阿片类药物掏空了。
Yet, it’s also become a company town predicated on rehab.
然而，它也成为了一个以康复为基础的公司城。
Addiction Recovery Care treats substance abuse disorders, and then trains those recovering from substance abuse for gainful employment.
成瘾康复护理治疗药物滥用障碍，然后对那些从药物滥用中恢复的人进行有酬就业培训。
It does so successfully, but ARC isn’t necessarily viewed as a savior by the rest of Louisa.
它做得很成功，但 ARC 并不一定被路易莎的其他人视为救世主。
Whang deftly unpacks ARC’s missions and its contradictions, profiling its CEO and its trainees—particularly an odd-couple pair of friends who give the piece its beating heart—with equal care.
王巧妙地阐释了 ARC 的使命及其矛盾，以同样的细心描述了其首席执行官和学员——尤其是一对奇怪的朋友，他们为这部作品提供了跳动的心脏。
You can tell when a journalist has parachuted in and helicoptered out, and you can tell when a journalist has spent a significant amount of time somewhere gaining the trust and confidence of his sources; it’s clear in the candor of Whang’s conversations and insights that he falls squarely in the latter camp.
你可以辨别出一名记者何时空降和直升机出境，你也可以辨别出一名记者何时花了大量时间在某个地方赢得了消息来源的信任和信心；从王的坦率谈话和见解中可以清楚地看出，他完全属于后一个阵营。
And by the time you reach the end of the piece, and you’ve found your breath caught in your throat, you’ll know that whatever jokes you told or heard as a kid, the truth is very, very different.
当你读到这篇文章的结尾时，你会发现自己的呼吸被卡在喉咙里，你就会知道，无论你小时候讲过或听过什么笑话，事实都是非常非常不同的。
—PR
——公关
## Beautiful Plan of Your Future
## 你未来的美好计划
Ed Park | The Baffler | October 28, 2024 | 3,442 words
艾德·帕克 |挡板| 2024 年 10 月 28 日 | 3,442 字
If you asked me to identify experiences that have left an imprint on me throughout my writing life, I’d note three: The first screenplay I wrote, by hand, at 14; my second script, typed out and saved to a floppy disk, at 17; and the unpublished nonfiction manuscript I completed during my MFA program, nearly 20 years ago.
如果你让我找出在我的写作生涯中留下印记的经历，我会指出三点：我 14 岁时手写的第一个剧本；我的第二个脚本是 17 岁时打印出来并保存到软盘上的；以及近 20 年前我在 MFA 课程期间完成的未发表的非小说类手稿。
I have no idea if the handwritten script or the floppy disk still exist, but I hope to stumble on them someday, perhaps in a box stored at my parents’ house.
我不知道手写的脚本或软盘是否仍然存在，但我希望有一天能偶然发现它们，也许在我父母家的一个盒子里。
In this Baffler essay, Ed Park describes just this sort of discovery.
在这篇 Baffler 文章中，埃德·帕克 (Ed Park) 描述了此类发现。
In the spring of 2020, when Park and his family were locked down in a 10th-floor Manhattan apartment, he found a manuscript he hadn’t seen in years: an unpublished memoir that he’d written in a few months in 1998, “a document of sustained artistic bliss of a sort that I have never found again.” In a closet-turned-office, during the height of the pandemic when “time lost meaning,” Park transcribed all 214 pages, reengaging with the words of his younger self.
2020 年春天，当帕克和他的家人被锁在曼哈顿 10 层的公寓里时，他发现了一份多年未见的手稿：一本他在 1998 年几个月内写成的未出版的回忆录，“这是一份我再也找不到的持续艺术幸福的文件。”在疫情最严重的时候，“时间失去了意义”，帕克在一间由壁橱改造成的办公室里抄写了全部 214 页，重新回忆起年轻时的自己的话。
“Pandemic isolation brought a degree of introspection to everyone but not, I wagered, like this,” he writes.
“大流行的隔离给每个人带来了一定程度的内省，但我打赌，不会像这样，”他写道。
“In a few months I would be fifty, and Three Tenses was all I could read, a prismatic self-portrait at twenty-eight.” I love how Park reflects on the creative process behind it, including its structure (composed of 1,478 fragments he calls “tiles”), its sentences (which all start with “In”), its randomness and lack of chronology, and his experimentation with tense.
“几个月后我就五十岁了，我能读到的只有《三种时态》，这是一幅二十八岁时的棱镜自画像。”我喜欢 Park 如何反思其背后的创作过程，包括它的结构（由 1,478 个他称之为“图块”的片段组成）、它的句子（全部以“In”开头）、它的随机性和缺乏时间顺序，以及他对时态的实验。
He shares passages from the manuscript that read like short vignettes, seemingly unrelated.
他分享了手稿中的一些段落，这些段落读起来就像短小插曲，看似无关。
“But there in my closet, it was easier to defend than disown such concatenations,” he writes.
“但在我的衣柜里，捍卫比否认这样的串联更容易，”他写道。
“I saw a writer searching for connections, an American tethered to the idea of Korea, and above all the shape of a life lived in books.” It’s one thing to read your past writing and cringe.
“我看到一个作家在寻找联系，一个美国人被韩国的观念所束缚，最重要的是，书中的生活形态。”阅读你过去的作品并感到畏缩是一回事。
(Hello, that’s me!) But it’s quite another to have a meaningful dialogue with your past self in the way Park does, and over time gain the needed perspective about your work.
（你好，这就是我！）但像帕克那样与过去的自己进行有意义的对话，并随着时间的推移获得对你的工作所需的看法是另一回事。
I’m now tempted to dig up my early writing—to see how I’ve grown, to give those ideas the space to breathe again.
我现在很想挖掘我早期的作品——看看我是如何成长的，让这些想法有再次呼吸的空间。
—CLR
—CLR
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