Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks

Number one stories sit up straight and make direct eye contact.

第一个故事是坐直并进行直接的眼神交流。

They’ve got a strong point of view, they often take a stand, and they always make you think.

他们有很强的观点，经常表明自己的立场，而且总是让你思考。

Usually topical, always unforgettable, number one stories exemplify the power of the written word to pique our curiosity and move us as human beings.

通常是热门话题，总是令人难忘，排名第一的故事体现了书面文字激发我们好奇心并感动我们作为人类的力量。

If you haven’t already, become a Longreads member so that you have these number one stories, and our other recommended reads, in your inbox on Friday mornings.

如果您还没有，请成为 Longreads 会员，以便您在周五早上的收件箱中收到这些排名第一的故事以及我们其他推荐的读物。

—Brendan, Carolyn, Cheri, Krista, Peter & Seyward

—布伦丹、卡罗琳、谢里、克里斯塔、彼得和西沃德

## January

##一月

## How a Would-Be Bomber Rebuilt His Life

## 一名未来的轰炸机如何重建他的生活

Michelle Shephard | The Walrus | January 6, 2025 | 5,675 words

米歇尔·谢泼德 |海象| 2025 年 1 月 6 日 | 5,675 字

Michelle Shephard has written about Zakaria Amara before: Working for The Toronto Star in 2006, she was the first to report on his arrest as one of the leaders of a terrorism group plotting to blow up downtown Toronto targets and a military base.

米歇尔·谢泼德 (Michelle Shephard) 之前曾写过关于扎卡里亚·阿马拉 (Zakaria Amara) 的文章：2006 年，她为《多伦多星报》工作，第一个报道了扎卡里亚·阿马拉 (Zakaria Amara) 被捕的消息，当时他是一个恐怖主义组织的领导人之一，密谋炸毁多伦多市中心的目标和军事基地。

The story ended for her when Amara was sentenced as a terrorist.

当阿马拉被作为恐怖分子判刑时，她的故事就结束了。

Or so she thought.

至少她是这么想的。

Nearly two decades on, a now-paroled Amara reached out.

近二十年后，现已假释的阿马拉伸出了援手。

Initially dubious about his claims of rehabilitation, Shephard takes the time to get to know him over several months; the resulting piece is profound.

谢泼德最初对他的康复说法表示怀疑，但后来花了几个月的时间来了解他。由此产生的作品意义深远。

Shephard discovers Amara to be sincere in his search for redemption, but finds that the police and the prison system played no part in his turnaround.

谢泼德发现阿马拉真诚地寻求救赎，但发现警察和监狱系统对他的转变没有起到任何作用。

Instead, a few key individuals and Amara’s own reading and writing influenced him.

相反，一些关键人物和阿马拉自己的阅读和写作对他产生了影响。

But it is not just Amara that has changed.

但改变的不仅仅是阿马拉。

In reviewing her reporting from 20 years ago, Shephard finds herself discomfited by its sensationalist tone, noting that “[a] right-wing blog calling our coverage a triumph of ‘beat reporting over political correctness’ made me feel queasy.” She returns to Amara’s story with a nuanced perspective on how radicalization has “many factors and stages that can last years before police are involved,” and awareness that deradicalization programs need “an intense one-on-one approach involving mentors who have credibility with vulnerable youths.” It is rare—and brave—to review your work with 20 years of hindsight, and while Shephard claims no regrets in her previous reporting, there’s more than one redemption story here.

在回顾 20 年前的报道时，谢泼德发现自己对其耸人听闻的语气感到不安，并指出“一个右翼博客称我们的报道是‘击败报道战胜政治正确性’的胜利，这让我感到恶心。”她以细致入微的视角回顾了阿马拉的故事，阐述了激进化如何具有“在警察介入之前可以持续数年的许多因素和阶段”，并认识到去激进化计划需要“一种强烈的一对一的方法，其中包括对弱势青少年有信誉的导师。”用 20 年的事后回顾来回顾你的工作是罕见且勇敢的，虽然谢泼德在之前的报道中声称不后悔，但这里有不止一个救赎故事。

The same writer and subject, a new insight.

相同的作者和主题，新的见解。

—CW

—CW

## Inside ‘Teflon Joe’s’: Why Your Favorite Grocery Store Is Not What You Think

## 走进“Teflon Joe’s”：为什么你最喜欢的杂货店不是你想象的那样

Clint Rainey | Fast Company | January 7, 2025 | 2,530 words

克林特·雷尼 |快公司| 2025 年 1 月 7 日 | 2,530 字

A few months ago, I took my daughter to Pretend City, a children’s museum in Southern California that’s laid out like a miniature town.

几个月前，我带女儿去了假装城市，这是一家位于南加州的儿童博物馆，布局就像一个微型小镇。

You can imagine the chaos inside such a space, with children running around pretending to be adults that have things to do and places to be.

你可以想象这样一个空间里的混乱，孩子们跑来跑去，假装成有事情要做、有地方要去的成年人。

The grocery store is such a place, and in this kid-sized city, it manifests as a big and boldly branded Trader Joe’s, with colorful wall ads and adorably packaged products.

杂货店就是这样一个地方，在这个儿童大小的城市里，它表现为一个大而大胆的 Trader Joe's 品牌，有色彩缤纷的墙壁广告和包装精美的产品。

As my daughter enthusiastically selected fake food off the shelves, I had a realization.

当我女儿热情地从货架上挑选假食品时，我意识到了。

While I haven’t shopped at Trader Joe’s in ages, I’ve continued to view the brand fondly and positively, ever since shopping there in my 20s.

虽然我已经很多年没有在 Trader Joe’s 购物了，但自从 20 多岁时在那里购物以来，我一直对这个品牌充满喜爱和积极的态度。

Lured by the inexpensive prices, convenient options, and “exotic” food aisle, Trader Joe’s made shopping and cooking accessible, even fun, when I was a young adult living on my own in San Francisco for the first time.

当我还是个第一次独自生活在旧金山的年轻人时，Trader Joe's 受到低廉价格、便捷选择和“异国情调”食品通道的吸引，让购物和烹饪变得触手可及，甚至充满乐趣。

But as Clint Rainey reports, the company has faced a lot of bad press recently: a series of product recalls, low rankings by environmental and animal welfare watchdog groups, and reports of intellectual property theft and workplace misconduct.

但正如克林特·雷尼报道的那样，该公司最近面临着很多负面新闻：一系列产品召回、环境和动物福利监管机构的低排名，以及知识产权盗窃和工作场所不当行为的报道。

In this Fast Company read—the first in a three–part series about the company’s brand identity and business practices—Rainey digs into why Trader Joe’s remains one of America’s favorite supermarkets despite the negative press.

在这本《快公司》读物中（关于该公司品牌形象和商业实践的三部分系列中的第一部分），雷尼深入探讨了为什么 Trader Joe’s 尽管受到负面新闻的影响，仍然是美国最受欢迎的超市之一。

I apologize in advance if this story shatters the eco-friendly, good-vibes image of your beloved neighborhood Trader Joe’s.

如果这个故事破坏了您心爱的社区 Trader Joe’s 的环保、良好氛围的形象，我提前表示歉意。

But I won’t hold it against you if you decide to pop in one last time to stock up on those sweet and salty umami rice crunchies—they’re ridiculously irresistible.

但如果你决定最后一次去买那些又甜又咸的鲜味米脆饼，我不会反对你——它们简直令人无法抗拒。

—CLR

—CLR

## The Death of an Asylum Seeker and the Shelter Crisis in Peel

## 一名寻求庇护者的死亡和皮尔区的庇护危机

Fatima Syed | The Local | January 14, 2025 | 4,359 words

法蒂玛·赛义德 |本地| 2025 年 1 月 14 日 | 4,359 字

When I read news articles about Trump’s moves to end asylum and suspend the refugee resettlement program in the US, it’s often hard to see what that looks like on an individual and human level.

当我读到有关特朗普终止庇护并暂停美国难民重新安置计划的新闻文章时，通常很难看出这在个人和人类层面上是什么样子。

Many stories on migration and immigration feel abstract, full of numbers and figures, describing people en masse.

许多关于移民和移民的故事感觉很抽象，充满了数字和人物，描述了一群人。

“It’s easy to forget that every single person migrating has a story,” Longreads writer Caitlin Dwyer once told me.

“人们很容易忘记，每个移民都有一个故事，”朗读的作家凯特琳·德怀尔曾经告诉我。

For The Local, Fatima Syed offers a wide view of the shelter crisis in Peel, a suburban municipality in the greater Toronto area.

法蒂玛·赛义德 (Fatima Syed) 为《本地报》提供了大多伦多地区郊区皮尔市住房危机的广阔视角。

But at the center of this feature is a powerful story of one woman, Delphina Ngigi.

但这部影片的核心是一个关于一位女性德尔菲娜·恩吉吉 (Delphina Ngigi) 的震撼故事。

Shunned and attacked for being bisexual, she left Kenya—and her four children—and made the journey to Canada.

由于双性恋而遭到回避和攻击，她离开肯尼亚和她的四个孩子，前往加拿大。

For decades, the Peel region had a “no turn away” policy, but that approach has become unsustainable.

几十年来，皮尔地区一直奉行“不拒绝”的政策，但这种做法已经变得不可持续。

Since 2023, Peel’s shelters have been unable to keep up with the surge of asylum seekers such as Delphina, a situation made worse by a severe housing crisis.

自 2023 年以来，皮尔区的庇护所一直无法跟上德尔菲娜等寻求庇护者的激增，严重的住房危机使情况变得更糟。

(One Ontario organization providing transitional shelters saw a 700-percent increase in requests during the pandemic, almost half of whom were asylum seekers.) Delphina arrived in Canada in February 2024, hoping to declare asylum and find a bed at a shelter in Mississauga—only to die waiting for one, on just her fourth day in the country.

（安大略省一家提供过渡庇护所的组织在疫情期间收到的请求增加了 700%，其中几乎一半是寻求庇护者。）德尔菲娜于 2024 年 2 月抵达加拿大，希望申请庇护并在密西沙加的庇护所找到一张床位，结果却在等待床位的过程中死去，而这只是她在加拿大的第四天。

The Peel municipality’s response to the influx of asylum seekers has saved lives, turning hotels into crisis shelters and providing social work, health care, and community support.

皮尔市政府对寻求庇护者涌入的反应拯救了生命，将酒店变成危机庇护所，并提供社会工作、医疗保健和社区支持。

It wants to help.

它想提供帮助。

But, as Delphina’s death shows, this Band-Aid approach isn’t enough.

但是，正如德尔菲娜的死所表明的那样，这种创可贴的方法还不够。

Syed writes a heartbreaking, necessary read of one woman seeking refuge, while deftly reporting on the compassionate people and organizations on the ground who want to create a real system, and real solutions, to help those like Delphina who land on their doorsteps.

赛义德写了一篇令人心碎、必要的读物，讲述了一位寻求庇护的妇女，同时巧妙地报道了当地富有同情心的人和组织，他们希望创建一个真正的系统和真正的解决方案，以帮助像德尔菲娜这样来到他们家门口的人。

—CLR

—CLR

## The Future Is Too Easy

## 未来太容易

David Roth | Defector | 3,438 words | January 28, 2025

大卫·罗斯 |叛逃者| 3,438 字 | 2025 年 1 月 28 日

Dispatches from the Consumer Electronics Show have been a mainstay of the tech media for more than 25 years.

25 年来，消费电子展的快讯一直是科技媒体的支柱。

Given the lurching evolution of the technology industry, those dispatches have diversified just a bit.

鉴于科技行业的突飞猛进，这些调度已经有点多样化。

All the way back in 2013, John Gruber wrote that “[t]here’s a nihilistic streak in tech journalism that I just don’t see in other fields.” But that streak is also increasingly warranted.

早在 2013 年，约翰·格鲁伯 (John Gruber) 就曾写道，“科技新闻业存在一种我在其他领域看不到的虚无主义倾向。”但这种连续性也越来越有必要。

What other industry has generated so much money from our attention, emotions, and data?

还有哪个行业能从我们的注意力、情感和数据中产生如此多的金钱？

All of this to say that Defector sending David Roth to CES is likely the apotheosis of Nihilistic CES Dispatch—and you’ll devour it gleefully.

所有这些都表明，《叛逃者》派大卫·罗斯参加 CES 很可能是虚无主义 CES Dispatch 的典范——你会欣喜若狂地吞噬它。

Once upon a time, Roth’s brand of polemic might have been dismissed as “snark.” It is anything but.

曾几何时，罗斯的论战可能会被视为“恶作剧”。但事实并非如此。

Roth is deeply unsettled by the tech industry, and he’s deeply unsettled by CES, but what unsettles him the most about both is their insistence on the inevitability of AI.

罗斯对科技行业深感不安，他对 CES 深感不安，但最让他不安的是他们坚持人工智能的必然性。

“The technology currently lavishly fucking up your grocery order in a supervised setting,” he writes, “will soon make you breakfast and drive you to work and help raise your child and manage both your glucose levels and those of your pet.

他写道：“目前的技术在监督环境下大量地搞砸了你的杂货订单，很快就会为你做早餐，开车送你去工作，帮助抚养你的孩子，管理你和你的宠物的血糖水平。

It will know everything about you, and it will also care about you.” That’s just the backdrop.

它会了解你的一切，也会关心你。”这只是背景。

Roth navigates the Las Vegas Convention Center with something like awe.

罗斯带着敬畏之心游览拉斯维加斯会议中心。

Or horror.

或者恐怖。

Or something in between.

或者介于两者之间。

CES is a zombie show of sorts: there are products from Kodak and Memorex and Radio Shack, all of which are no longer the original companies but rather conglomerates that now own their trademarks.

CES 可以说是一场僵尸展会：柯达、Memorex 和 Radio Shack 的产品都已不再是原来的公司，而是现在拥有自己商标的企业集团。

“‘I once loved Memorex’s VHS tapes, so I will now buy this Memorex e-scooter,’ is on the merits an absurd value proposition, but not much more or less absurd than anything else in that space,” he writes.

他写道：“‘我曾经很喜欢 Memorex 的 VHS 磁带，所以我现在要购买这款 Memorex 电动滑板车’，这确实是一个荒谬的价值主张，但并不比该领域的其他任何东西更荒谬。”

There are gadgets, obviously, many of which seem to be internet-connected sex toys.

显然，有一些小玩意，其中许多似乎是联网的性玩具。

But what Roth is really interested in is the mounting evidence that our humanity is being extracted, reproduced, and monetized: “The fantasy and utility of AI, for the unconscionably wealthy and relentlessly wary masters of this space, converge in a high and lonesome abstraction—technology designed less to do every human thing for you than to replace all those human things with itself, and then sell that function back to you as a monthly subscription.” Roth has long been a gifted critic of greed—greed in sports, greed in entertainment, greed in politics.

但罗斯真正感兴趣的是越来越多的证据表明我们的人性正在被提取、复制和货币化：“人工智能的幻想和实用性，对于这个领域的不合情理的富有和无情谨慎的主人来说，汇聚在一个崇高而孤独的抽象中——技术的设计与其说是为你做每一件人类的事情，不如说是用自己取代所有这些人类的事情，然后将这个功能以每月订阅的形式卖给你。”罗斯长期以来一直是贪婪的天才批评者——体育领域的贪婪、娱乐领域的贪婪、政治领域的贪婪。

But in this specific moment, when we’ve watched a cadre of Big Tech CEOs paying fealty to a demonstratedly corrupt president, that greed has never felt so threatening.

但在这个特定时刻，当我们看到一群大型科技公司首席执行官向一位明显腐败的总统效忠时，这种贪婪从未如此具有威胁性。

At least someone’s on the ramparts trying to help you see it.

至少有人在城墙上试图帮助你看到它。

—PR

——公关

## February

##二月

## Asbestos: A Corporate Coverup, a Public Health Catastrophe

## 石棉：企业掩盖，公共卫生灾难

Charlotte Bailey | Prospect | January 29, 2025 | 5,457 words

夏洛特·贝利 |展望| 2025 年 1 月 29 日 | 5,457 字

Asbestos was banned in the UK in 1999.

1999 年英国禁止使用石棉。

While the number of asbestos-related deaths—at least 5,000 annually—is expected to fall over time, activists are still sounding the alarm about the asbestos that remains in schools, hospitals, homes, and other older buildings in the UK.

虽然与石棉相关的死亡人数（每年至少 5,000 人）预计会随着时间的推移而下降，但活动人士仍在对英国学校、医院、家庭和其他旧建筑中残留的石棉发出警报。

For Prospect, Charlotte Bailey traces the history and use of asbestos over the decades.

夏洛特·贝利 (Charlotte Bailey) 在《Prospect》中追溯了数十年来石棉的历史和使用。

Indispensable during World War II, it was hailed as a “mineral of victory and safety” and a crucial building material for the future.

它在第二次世界大战期间不可或缺，被誉为“胜利和安全的矿物”以及未来的重要建筑材料。

After the war, however, big businesses discovered (and buried) the truth: Asbestos exposure was a health risk for everyone, not just factory workers.

然而，战后，大企业发现（并掩盖）了真相：接触石棉对每个人都构成健康风险，而不仅仅是工厂工人。

One woman who studied patients diagnosed with mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer affecting the lining of organs, discovered they had all been exposed to asbestos, yet none of them had worked in the industry.

一名女性研究了被诊断患有间皮瘤（一种影响器官内壁的侵袭性癌症）的患者，发现他们都接触过石棉，但没有人在该行业工作过。

(“They’d been plumbers, housewives and mechanics, a school building inspector and a teacher.”) For Bailey, these facts hit close to home: Her father also died from mesothelioma, likely a result of his time as an apprentice accountant, during which he also did a lot of manual labor in the building.

（“他们曾是水管工、家庭主妇和机械师、一名校舍检查员和一名教师。”）对贝利来说，这些事实触动了她的心：她的父亲也死于间皮瘤，这可能是由于他作为学徒会计师期间，他还在大楼里做了很多体力劳动。

“I had only the haziest understanding of asbestos as some dangerous substance used in decades past,” she writes.

“我对石棉的了解只有最模糊的了解，石棉是过去几十年使用的一种危险物质，”她写道。

“But as I cared for my father, I learned how it came to be ubiquitous in our infrastructure.” Bailey’s reporting on the industry is thorough and vital, while her retelling of her father’s rapid decline, interwoven in the piece, is heartfelt and powerful.

“但当我照顾我的父亲时，我了解到它是如何在我们的基础设施中无处不在的。”贝利对这个行业的报道是彻底而重要的，而她对父亲迅速衰落的重述，交织在这篇文章中，是真诚而有力的。

“My father was a character in the epilogue of an old story,” she writes.

“我的父亲是一个古老故事尾声中的人物，”她写道。

Asbestos may be considered a problem of the past in the UK, but as Bailey shows, this “killer dust” lingers and continues to impact thousands of lives each year.

在英国，石棉可能被认为是一个过去的问题，但正如贝利所表明的那样，这种“致命粉尘”仍然存在，并每年继续影响数千人的生命。

—CLR

—CLR

## Wild Clocks

## 狂野时钟

David Farrier | Emergence Magazine | January 23, 2025 | 4,916 words

大卫·法瑞尔 |新兴杂志| 2025 年 1 月 23 日 | 4,916 字

Spring melts seem to happen earlier, and warmer fall months stretch out, shortening the winter season.

春季融化似乎发生得更早，而温暖的秋季则延长了，从而缩短了冬季。

To a human who abhors the cold, this might seem like a good thing, but for animals and plants, it can alter and perhaps even endanger their life cycles.

对于一个厌恶寒冷的人来说，这似乎是一件好事，但对于动植物来说，它可能会改变甚至危及它们的生命周期。

Consider mammals that emerge from hibernation earlier than usual, before their preferred foods proliferate.

考虑一下哺乳动物，它们在它们喜欢的食物扩散之前，比平常更早地从冬眠中醒来。

Consider plants that may flower too early, before critical pollinators are out and about.

考虑一下那些在关键授粉媒介出现之前可能过早开花的植物。

As David Farrier explains in this lyrical piece, such mistiming is called a chronoclasm: “a collision of different orders of time.” What’s behind these somewhat scary developments?

正如大卫·法里尔（David Farrier）在这篇抒情作品中所解释的那样，这种时机错误被称为时间破坏：“不同时间顺序的碰撞。”这些有些可怕的事态发展背后是什么？

You guessed it: climate change due to global warming.

您猜对了：全球变暖导致气候变化。

But this essay is not all doom and gloom—far from it.

但这篇文章并不全是厄运和悲观——远非如此。

Farrier’s poetic look at wild intervals is accessible and thoughtful.

法里尔对狂野间隔的诗意观察是平易近人且深思熟虑的。

He gives equal (ahem) time to reasons we can be hopeful about evolving ecological dependencies and partnerships, such as how new tree species might flourish in forests where conditions were once too cold for them.

他给了我们同样的（咳咳）时间来解释我们对不断发展的生态依赖性和伙伴关系充满希望的原因，例如新的树种如何在曾经气候寒冷的森林中繁衍生息。

“Time lives in the body, not as the tick of the clock, but as a pulse in the blood,” he writes.

“时间存在于体内，不是时钟的滴答声，而是血液中的脉搏，”他写道。

“It is a thought, buried deep in nerve, leaf, and gene.

“这是一种深埋在神经、叶子和基因中的思想。

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As wild clocks fall out of measure, can we recalibrate our sense of time and foster a rhythm by which all life can flourish?” We know we can’t rewind the clock and reset Earth’s climate.

当野生时钟失控时，我们能否重新校准我们的时间感并培养一种让所有生命都能蓬勃发展的节奏？”我们知道我们无法让时钟倒转并重置地球气候。

It’s refreshing, however, to read a piece that predicts what the future might hold while planting the seeds of hope.

然而，阅读一篇预测未来的文章，同时播下希望的种子，令人耳目一新。

—KS

—KS

## Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’

## 严重错误：智利“消失”的历史与未来

Fletcher Reveley | Undark Magazine | February 19, 2025 | 9,195 words

弗莱彻·雷维利 |黑暗杂志 | 2025 年 2 月 19 日 | 9,195 字

I’ve read some fascinating forensics stories in the past year, and this haunting piece by Fletcher Reveley digs into how Chile has applied the science, unfortunately to disastrous results, in crimes of mass atrocity.

去年，我读过一些引人入胜的法医故事，弗莱彻·雷维利 (Fletcher Reveley) 的这篇令人难忘的文章深入探讨了智利如何在大规模暴行犯罪中应用科学，不幸的是导致了灾难性的后果。

For Flor Lazo, the past 50 years have been a “long, long, long, long road in search of the truth.” Her father, two brothers, and two uncles were among the more than 1,000 people who were forcibly disappeared after the 1973 coup, under Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship.

对于弗洛·拉佐来说，过去的 50 年是“寻找真相的漫长、漫长、漫长的道路”。 1973 年奥古斯托·皮诺切特残酷独裁政变后，1000 多人被迫失踪，其中包括她的父亲、两个兄弟和两个叔叔。

Reveley describes how in the late ’80s, forensic anthropologists began to investigate the regime’s mass graves.

雷维利描述了 80 年代末法医人类学家如何开始调查该政权的乱葬坑。

A series of scientific errors by the state’s forensic unit, the Servicio Médico Legal, marred the effort, misidentifying victims and delivering bodies to the wrong families.

国家法医部门 Servicio Médico Legal 犯下的一系列科学错误，错误地识别了受害者，并将尸体交给了错误的家庭，从而损害了这一努力。

(For years, Lazo visited the grave containing what she believed was her brother Rodolfo’s remains, but after the bones were later exhumed—without her family’s knowledge—she learned that they were not his.) Reveley writes about the devastating affect these grievous mistakes have on victims’ loved ones: “For many of the affected relatives, the impact was seismic, forever altering their relationship to science, the state, and the notion of truth itself.” DNA analysis, remote-sensing technology, and a new initiative under Chile’s current president hold the promise of uncovering the remains of more victims, but as Reveley shows, Lazo and other Chileans continue to grapple with the injustice of these killings and hope for closure that they may never get.

（多年来，拉佐一直探访坟墓，她相信里面藏着她哥哥鲁道夫的遗体，但后来在她家人不知情的情况下，这些骨头被挖掘出来后，她才知道它们不是他的。）雷维利写到了这些严重错误对受害者亲人造成的毁灭性影响：“对于许多受影响的亲属来说，影响是巨大的，永远改变了他们与科学、国家以及真理本身的关系。” DNA分析、遥感技术以及智利现任总统领导下的一项新举措有望发现更多受害者的遗骸，但正如雷维利所表明的那样，拉佐和其他智利人仍在努力应对这些不公正的杀戮，并希望他们可能永远无法结束。

This is a meticulously reported account of a dark part of Chilean history, but also the extraordinary journey of families who have shown resilience over a lifetime of suffering.

这是对智利历史黑暗部分的精心报道，也是那些在一生苦难中表现出韧性的家庭的非凡旅程。

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—CLR

## The Languages Lost To Climate Change

## 气候变化导致的语言消失

Julia Webster Ayuso | Noēma | January 28, 2025 | 4,354 words

朱莉娅·韦伯斯特·阿尤索 |诺埃玛 | 2025 年 1 月 28 日 | 4,354 字

Imagine a language so beautiful and precise that there’s a word to describe “a female reindeer that has lost its calf of the same year but is accompanied by the previous year’s calf.” For the Sámi, Europe’s only recognized Indigenous community, that word is čearpmat-eadni.

想象一下，有一种语言如此美丽和精确，以至于有一个词可以形容“一只母驯鹿失去了同年的小鹿，但有前一年的小鹿陪伴”。对于欧洲唯一被认可的原住民社区萨米人来说，这个词是 čearpmat-eadni。

As Webster Ayuso says, the Sámi also have terms for specific types of snow, “everything from åppås, untouched winter snow without tracks; to habllek, a light, airy dust-like snow; and tjaevi, flakes that stick together and are hard to dig.” Given a warming planet under climate change, will habllek still occur?

正如韦伯斯特·阿尤索（Webster Ayuso）所说，萨米人也有特定类型的雪的术语，“从 åppås（没有痕迹的未受破坏的冬季雪）到 habllek（一种轻盈、飘逸的尘埃状雪）和 tjaevi（粘在一起且难以挖掘的雪片）。”鉴于气候变化导致地球变暖，哈布莱克还会发生吗？

If that term is used less and less, could it possibly disappear from the Sámi lexicon, and with it, a richer experience of the world?

如果这个词的使用越来越少，它是否有可能从萨米语词典中消失，随之而来的是更丰富的世界体验？

Could preserving languages be one way to help fight climate change and encourage conservation?

保护语言能否成为帮助应对气候变化和鼓励保护的一种方式？

I learned a lot reading Julia Webster Ayuso’s piece for Noēma.

阅读 Julia Webster Ayuso 为 Noēma 撰写的文章，我学到了很多东西。

Here, language and science intertwine like twin strands of DNA, and like DNA, they hold the key to preserving life on this planet.

在这里，语言和科学像 DNA 的双链一样交织在一起，并且像 DNA 一样，它们掌握着保存这个星球上生命的关键。

The number of languages spoken in the world is dwindling due to shrinking populations, climate change migration, and of course, colonization.

由于人口减少、气候变化移民，当然还有殖民化，世界上使用的语言数量正在减少。

“More than half of the world’s 8 billion people speak one of just 25 languages,” she writes.

“世界上 80 亿人中有一半以上会说 25 种语言中的一种，”她写道。

“Most of the remaining 7,139 languages have only a few speakers.” But Webster Ayuso suggests that the environment benefits when language and culture propagate.

“其余 7,139 种语言中的大多数只有少数人使用。”但韦伯斯特·阿尤索认为，当语言和文化传播时，环境就会受益。

She cites as one example Hawaiian, which by 1980 was spoken by only 1,500 people.

她以夏威夷语为例，到 1980 年，只有 1,500 人说夏威夷语。

(Colonizers had routinely shamed and punished Hawaiian speakers, and the language languished.) Education programs for young people helped pull that back from the brink; by 2016, the number of Hawaiian speakers had grown by a factor of 10.

（殖民者经常羞辱和惩罚说夏威夷语的人，夏威夷语因此日渐衰落。）针对年轻人的教育计划帮助将夏威夷语从崩溃的边缘拉了回来。到 2016 年，说夏威夷语的人数增加了 10 倍。

This revival parallels the lot of the honu, or green sea turtle, “a powerful symbol of Hawaiian culture”: As the Hawaiian language found a new foothold, honu nesting populations grew by five percent annually.

这种复兴与“夏威夷文化的有力象征”霍努（绿海龟）的命运相似：随着夏威夷语言找到新的立足点，霍努筑巢种群每年增长 5%。

Now if only the whole planet wasn’t at such a steep, ongoing, collective loss for words.

现在，如果整个地球没有陷入如此严重、持续、集体失语的境地就好了。

—KS

—KS

## March

## 三月

## The Heroines Who Take On The Harm

## 承担伤害的女英雄

Adlai Coleman | The Delacorte Review | February 25, 2025 | 6,390 words

阿德莱·科尔曼 |德拉科评论| 2025 年 2 月 25 日 | 6,390 字

When I write editor’s picks and recommendations for our weekly Top 5, I make notes about the piece and collect passages to spark my imagination.

当我为每周的前 5 篇文章撰写编辑精选和推荐时，我会对这篇文章做笔记并收集段落以激发我的想象力。

I know a story is special when my digital scratchpad fills quickly.

当我的数字便签本很快填满时，我知道一个故事很特别。

This is what happened with Adlai Coleman’s Delacorte Review essay.

这就是阿德莱·科尔曼 (Adlai Coleman) 的《德拉科特评论》(Delacorte Review) 文章所发生的情况。

Coleman goes to West Virginia “looking for harm.” There, he meets Danni Dineen and Donna Coleman, two women working to reduce harm for members of their community.

科尔曼前往西弗吉尼亚州“寻找伤害”。在那里，他遇到了丹尼·迪宁和唐娜·科尔曼，这两位致力于减少社区成员伤害的女性。

Danni runs the Quick Response Team for the city of Charleston, a group of EMTs and recovery specialists who respond to overdose-related 911 calls, offering life-saving Narcan.

丹尼 (Danni) 负责管理查尔斯顿市的快速反应小组，该小组由急救人员和康复专家组成，负责响应与服药过量相关的 911 电话，提供挽救生命的纳洛酮 (Narcan)。

Danni has been sober for nearly four years; she was given Narcan 23 times before she got treatment.

丹尼已经戒酒近四年了；在接受治疗之前，她接受了 23 次麻醉剂注射。

Both her mother and younger sister died of overdoses.

她的母亲和妹妹均因服药过量而死亡。

Her older sister overdosed and was placed on life support.

她的姐姐吸毒过量，需要维持生命。

Now, life support is exactly what Danni does for a living.

现在，生命支持正是丹尼的谋生手段。

When not responding to 911 calls, she’s doing wellness checks and connecting with people while she hands out water, bus passes, and Narcan.

当不接听 911 电话时，她会进行健康检查并与人们联系，同时分发水、公交车通行证和麻醉药品。

She meets people exactly where they are because she’s been there.

她在人们所在的地方与他们会面，因为她去过那里。

She doesn’t judge.

她不评判。

She keeps trying, knowing that today could be the day that a client quits drugs for good.

她不断尝试，知道今天可能是客户永久戒毒的日子。

“Danni spends her days holding doors open and watching people walk by,” writes Coleman.

“丹妮每天都把门打开，看着人们走过，”科尔曼写道。

Over in Ripley, a town in Jackson County, Donna is the only employee of the Bo-Mar Drop-In-Center, where help varies widely, but always meets an immediate need.

在杰克逊县的里普利镇，唐娜是博马尔救助中心的唯一雇员，该中心提供的帮助各不相同，但总能满足紧急需求。

Sometimes it’s a free hot sandwich and a safe place to sit for awhile.

有时它是一个免费的热三明治和一个安全的坐一会儿的地方。

Sometimes it’s finding a bed in a treatment facility.

有时是在治疗机构中寻找床位。

Sometimes it’s asking a few questions that show she knows what someone is up to, but that she cares anyway.

有时，问几个问题可以表明她知道某人在做什么，但无论如何她都很关心。

Donna probes to find out what someone needs now, something that might get them one step closer to recovery.

唐娜试图找出某人现在需要什么，这可能会让他们更接近康复。

Coleman is a keen observer and clocks his own awkwardness, first at developing rapport with Donna and then at making eye contact with the Bo-Mar clients.

科尔曼是一位敏锐的观察者，他注意到了自己的尴尬，首先是与唐娜建立融洽的关系，然后是与 Bo-Mar 客户进行眼神交流。

“There is quiet appraisal in Donna’s gaze, a gentle detachment, as if she is studying you from a distance.

“唐娜的目光里有一种安静的评价，一种温柔的超然，仿佛她正在远处打量你。

She wears rounded glasses and her eyes are warm without being soft.

她戴着圆框眼镜，眼神温暖而不柔和。

She speaks deliberately, unafraid of silence,” he writes.

她说话从容，不惧怕沉默，”他写道。

Each sentence in this essay is stark, each paragraph pairs devastation with earned optimism.

本文中的每句话都是鲜明的，每一段都将毁灭与应得的乐观结合起来。

No one in this story is comfortable, especially the reader, but that discomfort is a necessary precursor to change, fueled by what Danni and Donna bring to work every day: hope.

这个故事中没有人感到舒服，尤其是读者，但这种不适是改变的必要先兆，丹尼和唐娜每天给工作带来的东西推动了这种不适：希望。

—KS

—KS

## The Great AI Art Heist

## 人工智能艺术大劫案

Kelley Engelbrecht | Chicago Magazine | March 4, 2025 | 6,193 words

凯利·恩格尔布莱希特 |芝加哥杂志 | 2025 年 3 月 4 日 | 6,193 字

What happens in a world where machines are trained on stolen creativity?

当机器接受被盗创造力的训练时，会发生什么？

In this story for Chicago Magazine, Kelley Engelbrecht introduces us to Kim Van Deun, a fantasy illustrator who, a few years ago, began searching for a way to protect her work from generative AI tools that could produce images of anything in seconds.

在《芝加哥杂志》的这篇报道中，凯利·恩格尔布雷希特 (Kelley Engelbrecht) 向我们介绍了奇幻插画家 Kim Van Deun，几年前，她开始寻找一种方法来保护她的作品免受生成人工智能工具的影响，这些工具可以在几秒钟内生成任何图像。

Her search led her to Ben Zhao, a computer scientist at the University of Chicago’s SAND Lab, where he and his team have developed protective tech—software called Glaze and Nightshade—that confuses and corrupts AI models that scrape and train on images without consent.

她通过搜索找到了芝加哥大学 SAND 实验室的计算机科学家 Ben Zhao，他和他的团队开发了保护性技术，即名为 Glaze 和 Nightshade 的软件，这种技术可以迷惑和破坏未经同意就抓取和训练图像的人工智能模型。

“Take an image of a cat,” Engelbrecht explains.

“拍摄一张猫的照片，”恩格尔布雷希特解释道。

“Apply Nightshade to the image, and the AI model will see not a cat but something entirely different — perhaps a chair.

“将 Nightshade 应用于图像，人工智能模型看到的不是猫，而是完全不同的东西——也许是一把椅子。

Do this to enough images of cats, and gradually the model stops seeing cats and sees only chairs.” Engelbrecht’s profile of Zhao and the SAND Lab’s efforts to disrupt Big Tech highlights the bigger rift between AI companies and independent artists, but it also lingers on something more fundamental.

对足够多的猫图像进行此操作，模型逐渐不再看到猫，而只看到椅子。” Engelbrecht 对赵和 SAND 实验室颠覆大型科技的努力的描述凸显了人工智能公司和独立艺术家之间更大的分歧，但它也存在于一些更根本的问题上。

At one point, when Engelbrecht asks Heather Zheng, Zhao’s wife and co-leader of the lab, about pushback to their work, she says, “I’d rather see Glaze and Nightshade as a way to tell the young generation that they have agency.” As a mother to an imaginative, artistic 6-year-old, I felt this on a deeper level.

有一次，当恩格尔布雷希特向赵的妻子兼实验室联合负责人希瑟·郑询问他们的工作受到的阻力时，她说，“我宁愿把 Glaze 和 Nightshade 视为告诉年轻一代他们有代理权的一种方式。”作为一个富有想象力、艺术气息的六岁孩子的母亲，我更深层次地感受到了这一点。

Engelbrecht weaves in a few quiet yet telling moments about children and their art, reminding us why it’s crucial for future generations to create from scratch, to build off a blank canvas, and to make something that’s entirely their own.

恩格尔布莱希特编织了一些关于儿童和他们的艺术的安静而有说服力的时刻，提醒我们为什么对后代来说，从头开始创作、在空白画布上搭建、制作完全属于他们自己的东西是至关重要的。

Because even the most powerful algorithms are nothing without human imagination.

因为如果没有人类的想象力，即使是最强大的算法也无济于事。

—CLR

—CLR

## The Doctor, the Biohacker, and the Quest to Treat Their Long COVID

## 医生、生物黑客以及治疗长期新冠肺炎的探索

Erika Hayasaki | Men’s Health | March 12, 2025 | 7,584 words

早崎绘里香 |男性健康 | 2025 年 3 月 12 日 | 7,584 字

Five years after COVID-19 first upended the world, as many as 20 million Americans and at least 400 million people worldwide are battling long COVID, a debilitating and misunderstood condition with few answers and no cure.

COVID-19 首次颠覆世界五年后，多达 2000 万美国人和全世界至少 4 亿人正在与长期的新冠病毒作斗争，这是一种令人衰弱且被误解的疾病，几乎没有答案，也无法治愈。

Erika Hayasaki follows two men—Matthew Light, a pulmonologist, and Levi Henry, a CrossFit enthusiast—who, despite their different approaches to medicine, find themselves in the same boat.

早崎埃里卡 (Erika Hayasaki) 跟随两名男子——肺科医生马修·莱特 (Matthew Light) 和 CrossFit 爱好者利维·亨利 (Levi Henry) 的脚步，尽管他们的医学方法不同，但他们发现自己处于同一条船上。

They continue to search for something, anything, that might make them feel like themselves again.

他们继续寻找一些东西，任何东西，可以让他们再次感觉像自己一样。

Light’s shortness of breath persisted for months after getting COVID.

感染新冠病毒后，莱特的呼吸急促持续了几个月。

“To be a pulmonologist struggling to breathe,” writes Hayasaki, “felt like a special kind of hell.” He developed chronic fatigue syndrome, and after a year of living with his symptoms, he asked himself: “Who is supposed to take care of long COVID patients?” He decided to be that doctor.

“作为一名呼吸困难的肺科医生，”早崎写道，“感觉就像是一种特殊的地狱。”他患上了慢性疲劳综合症，在忍受了一年的症状后，他问自己：“谁应该照顾长期的新冠患者？”他决定成为那个医生。

He now leads a support group at UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Colorado, where a growing community meets to commiserate and learn about potential new treatments without judgment.

他现在在科罗拉多州落基山脉的 UCHealth 医疗中心领导一个支持小组，在那里，越来越多的社区聚集在一起，不加评判地表达同情并了解潜在的新疗法。

“They turn to each other,” writes Hayasaki, “because who better to turn to?

“他们互相求助，”早崎写道，“因为谁更适合求助呢？

Science does not yet have the answers.” Levi Henry, the former CrossFitter, had tried a number of experimental therapies—hyperbaric oxygen therapy, red light panels, lymphatic drainage massage, ice baths—before finding Light’s support group.

科学还没有答案。”前 CrossFitter 成员利维·亨利 (Levi Henry) 在找到莱特的支持小组之前，尝试过多种实验疗法——高压氧疗法、红灯板、淋巴引流按摩、冰浴。

Some treatments seem promising; a low dose of naltrexone has helped Light, for example, but others are risky and unproven.

有些治疗方法似乎很有希望；例如，低剂量的纳曲酮对莱特有帮助，但其他药物则存在风险且未经证实。

For both men, the search for relief is a kind of survival.

对于两人来说，寻求解脱就是一种生存。

In a world that’s moved on from the pandemic, and a new Trump administration decimating everything in its path, their support group is a space to share knowledge, and a lifeline.

在一个已经摆脱了大流行的世界中，新的特朗普政府正在摧毁其道路上的一切，他们的支持小组是分享知识的空间和生命线。

Hayasaki captures their frustration and resilience with nuance, showing what it’s really like to navigate an illness that remains a mystery.

早崎细致入微地捕捉到了他们的挫败感和韧性，展示了应对仍然是个谜的疾病的真实感受。

—CLR

—CLR

## The Human Cost of Jeff Landry’s Drive to Resume Executions

## 杰夫·兰德里推动恢复处决的人力成本

Piper French | Bolts, in partnership with Mother Jones | March 20, 2025 | 6,239 words

派珀法国 | Bolts 与 Mother Jones 合作 | 2025 年 3 月 20 日 | 6,239 字

A scene from Lawrence Wright’s recent New Yorker feature has stayed with me: A group of nuns visit Melissa, a death row inmate in Texas, on the day of her scheduled execution, only to find her in a cage—a literal cage, not just the metaphorical one of prison.

劳伦斯·赖特（Lawrence Wright）最近在《纽约客》上发表的专题报道中的一个场景一直让我印象深刻：一群修女在预定执行死刑的那天探访德克萨斯州的死囚梅丽莎（Melissa），却发现她被关在笼子里——一个真正的笼子，而不仅仅是隐喻的监狱。

In Piper French’s story, Chris Duncan, who has been on death row in Louisiana’s Angola prison since 1998, tells French that after years of incarceration, all that remained of him was a “body in a cage”—and that execution might be a mercy.

在派珀·弗兰奇 (Piper French) 的故事中，自 1998 年以来一直被关押在路易斯安那州安哥拉监狱死囚牢房的克里斯·邓肯 (Chris Duncan) 告诉弗伦奇，经过多年的监禁，他只剩下“笼子里的尸体”——而处决可能是一种仁慈。

The prison-as-cage metaphor is not new, but in French’s telling, its weight is visceral.

监狱即笼子的比喻并不新鲜，但在弗伦奇的讲述中，它的分量是发自内心的。

Duncan was convicted of murdering his then-girlfriend’s toddler daughter.

邓肯因谋杀他当时女友的幼儿女儿而被定罪。

His case was built on now-debunked bite mark forensics, the expertise of discredited doctors, a jailhouse snitch’s faulty testimony, and a damning video never seen at trial.

他的案件是建立在现已被揭穿的咬痕取证、信誉不佳的医生的专业知识、监狱告密者的错误证词以及审判时从未见过的可恶的视频的基础上的。

Add to that Louisiana’s history of prosecutorial misconduct—where more than 80 percent of death sentences were overturned between 1976 and 2015—and Duncan’s case becomes a stark reflection of a deeply flawed system.

再加上路易斯安那州检方不当行为的历史——1976年至2015年间，超过80%的死刑判决被推翻——邓肯的案件成为一个存在严重缺陷的制度的鲜明反映。

French details his case with care, while zooming out to track the evolution of the state’s legal system, including reforms in recent years that gave incarcerated people, even those on death row, new avenues to claim innocence.

弗兰奇仔细地详细描述了他的案件，同时放眼追踪该州法律体系的演变，包括近年来的改革，这些改革为被监禁的人，甚至是死囚牢房的人，提供了声称无罪的新途径。

But since taking office last year, Governor Jeff Landry has aggressively worked to reinstate executions, reauthorized electrocution, and legalized the experimental method of suffocation by nitrogen gas.

但自去年上任以来，州长杰夫·兰德里一直在积极努力恢复死刑，重新授权电刑，并使氮气窒息的实验方法合法化。

After a 15-year pause, Landry got his wish: This past week, Louisiana resumed executions by killing Jessie Hoffman, a man Duncan had grown close to.

暂停了 15 年之后，兰德里如愿以偿：上周，路易斯安那州恢复执行死刑，杀死了邓肯关系密切的杰西·霍夫曼 (Jessie Hoffman)。

French’s reporting is urgent, revealing a justice system that gets it wrong far too often—and a governor more focused on sealing the cage than opening it.

弗兰奇的报告很紧迫，揭露了司法系统经常出错的情况，而州长更注重密封笼子而不是打开它。

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## April

##四月

## The Last Face Death Row Inmates See

## 死囚看到的最后一张脸

Brenna Ehrlich | Rolling Stone | March 29, 2025 | 6,782 words

布伦娜·埃利希 |滚石 | 2025 年 3 月 29 日 | 6,782 字

Brenna Ehrlich’s profile of the Reverend Jeff Hood is thick with tension from the opening sentence.

布伦娜·埃利希 (Brenna Ehrlich) 对杰夫·胡德牧师 (Reverend Jeff Hood) 的描述从开头那句话就充满了紧张感。

Hood, “half metal roadie with his bald head and long, ZZ Top beard and quirky glasses, half classic priest,” ministers to men on death row.

胡德是“半金属巡演者，秃头、ZZ Top 长胡子和古怪的眼镜，半经典的牧师”，为死囚牢房里的人服务。

We meet him before dawn on the day that Emmanuel Littlejohn might be put to death at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, 30 years after he killed a man in a convenience store robbery.

我们在伊曼纽尔·利特尔约翰 (Emmanuel Littlejohn) 可能在俄克拉荷马州监狱被处决的那天黎明前与他见面，距他在便利店抢劫案中杀害一名男子 30 年后。

Littlejohn is one of Hood’s “guys,” men who are guilty of murder, rape, and sometimes both, men that Hood ministers to anyway, because he believes that everyone is worthy of love and compassion despite what they’ve done in life.

小约翰是胡德的“伙计”之一，这些人犯有谋杀、强奸罪，有时两者兼而有之，胡德无论如何都会服事这些人，因为他相信每个人都值得爱和同情，无论他们在生活中做了什么。

Not all of the repulsive behavior in this piece is committed by the men behind bars: Hood has received death threats for his work, including from a 70-year-old man in a pickup truck while Hood was mowing his front lawn.

这篇文章中的所有令人厌恶的行为并非都是狱中男子所为：胡德因其工作而受到死亡威胁，其中包括在胡德修剪自家门前草坪时，一辆皮卡车上一名 70 岁男子的威胁。

Then there’s the torture committed by the state.

然后是国家所实施的酷刑。

The Pardon and Parole board had granted Littlejohn clemency weeks before his execution date, which put his life into the hands of Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt.

特赦和假释委员会在利特尔约翰被处决前几周给予了他宽大处理，这将他的生命交到了俄克拉荷马州州长凯文·斯蒂特手中。

Stitt, who could mandate Littlejohn’s reprieve or death with a single phone call, was said to be praying on the decision—a performance that was still underway when they came to measure Littlejohn’s arms and legs for the straps and gauge his veins for the needle.

斯蒂特可以通过一个电话命令对利特尔约翰缓刑或处死，据说他正在为这一决定祈祷——当他们来测量利特尔约翰的手臂和腿的带子并测量他的静脉以安装针头时，这场表演仍在进行中。

(Is there anything more cruel than to dangle mercy in front of a man, just because you can?) This is an emotional read.

（还有什么比仅仅因为你可以而在一个男人面前挥舞怜悯更残酷的事情吗？）这是一本充满情感的读物。

But when you stick it out to the end as Hood does, you’ll find it to be a true testament to faith, hope, and love.

但当你像胡德一样坚持到底时，你会发现它是信仰、希望和爱的真实见证。

—KS

—KS

## The Murder, the Museum, and the Monument

## 谋杀案、博物馆和纪念碑

Kori Suzuki | High Country News | April 1, 2025 | 6,075 words

铃木幸里 |高地国家新闻| 2025 年 4 月 1 日 | 6,075 字

In April 1943, 63-year-old James Wakasa was walking his dog near the edge of the Topaz Relocation Center, a Japanese American incarceration camp in the Utah desert, when he was shot and killed by a soldier in a guard tower.

1943 年 4 月，63 岁的詹姆斯·若狭 (James Wakasa) 在犹他州沙漠中的日裔美国人监禁营黄玉安置中心 (Topaz Relocation Center) 边缘附近遛狗时，被哨塔内的一名士兵开枪打死。

Fellow prisoners erected a stone and concrete monument in Wakasa’s honor.

狱友们为若狭竖立了一座石头和混凝土纪念碑。

Decades later, Nancy Ukai, a researcher in Berkeley whose parents had also been incarcerated at Topaz, began to learn more about Wakasa’s story, and that the Roosevelt administration had ordered the monument to be destroyed.

几十年后，伯克利的研究员南希·乌凯（Nancy Ukai）的父母也被关押在黄玉石监狱，她开始更多地了解若狭的故事，并得知罗斯福政府已下令摧毁这座纪念碑。

Two archaeologists read Ukai’s research, visited Topaz, and—to their surprise—stumbled upon the monument, buried in the ground.

两位考古学家阅读了 Ukai 的研究，参观了黄玉，并且令他们惊讶的是，他们偶然发现了埋在地下的纪念碑。

But what followed wasn’t a triumphant rediscovery, as Kori Suzuki reports, but an example of how heritage and historical memory can be mishandled.

但正如铃木幸里所报道的那样，接下来发生的并不是一次成功的重新发现，而是一个遗产和历史记忆如何被错误处理的例子。

The museum entrusted with preserving Topaz excavated the monument without involving any descendants of those imprisoned there.

负责保护黄玉的博物馆挖掘了这座纪念碑，但没有涉及任何被囚禁在那里的人的后裔。

“In the museum’s actions, [Ukai] saw the same patterns of violence emerging,” writes Suzuki, violence in the form of silence and erasure.

“在博物馆的行动中，[Ukai]看到了同样的暴力模式的出现，”铃木写道，暴力以沉默和擦除的形式出现。

Suzuki’s storytelling is quiet and clear-eyed, letting the weight of history press through each sentence.

铃木的讲故事安静而清晰，每句话都透着历史的厚重。

More than 80 years later, Topaz descendants still seek answers about the discovery and excavation of the monument, and still fight for dignity and remembrance.

80多年后，黄玉后裔仍在寻找有关纪念碑发现和挖掘的答案，仍在为尊严和纪念而奋斗。

This story isn’t just about an unearthed piece of stone—it’s a mirror and a warning, reminding us that the powerful are more often interested in rewriting history than reckoning with it.

这个故事不仅仅是关于一块出土的石头，它是一面镜子和一个警告，提醒我们，强者往往更感兴趣的是重写历史，而不是正视历史。

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## Diary of a Spreadsheet

## 电子表格日记

Chelsea Kirk | n+1 | April 7, 2025 | 3,990 words

切尔西·柯克 | n+1 | 2025 年 4 月 7 日 | 3,990 字

As the Eaton and Palisades wildfires tore through Southern California, destroying neighborhoods and displacing tens of thousands of people, landlords moved swiftly to capitalize on disaster.

当伊顿和帕利塞兹野火席卷南加州，摧毁社区并导致数万人流离失所时，房东们迅速采取行动，利用这场灾难。

In this n+1 essay, tenant organizer Chelsea Kirk writes from inside that moment: “A two-bedroom apartment on Montana Avenue was listed for $3,595 on January 7.

在这篇 n+1 文章中，租户组织者切尔西·柯克 (Chelsea Kirk) 在那一刻写道：“蒙大拿大道上的一套两居室公寓于 1 月 7 日挂牌，售价为 3,595 美元。

By the next day, the price had jumped 25 percent to $4,495.

到第二天，价格上涨了 25%，达到 4,495 美元。

By January 9, it climbed another 33 percent, reaching $5,995.” Watching Zillow rental prices surge in real time, Kirk created an open-access Google spreadsheet to track and collect instances of price gouging.

到 1 月 9 日，价格又上涨了 33%，达到 5,995 美元。”目睹 Zillow 租金价格实时飙升，Kirk 创建了一个开放访问的 Google 电子表格来跟踪和收集哄抬价格的实例。

The spreadsheet went viral, the number of listings exploded, and what began as one individual’s spontaneous response quickly evolved into a larger act of resistance.

该电子表格迅速传播开来，列表数量激增，最初的个人自发反应很快演变成更大规模的抵抗行为。

Kirk mobilized a network of activists, coders, urban planners, and people who simply wanted to help.

柯克动员了一个由活动家、程序员、城市规划者和只想提供帮助的人们组成的网络。

“The spreadsheet taps into the anger of people who may never set foot in a tenant union meeting, but who still feel the urgency,” writes Kirk.

“电子表格激起了人们的愤怒，他们可能从未参加过租户工会会议，但仍然感到紧迫，”柯克写道。

“This crisis is reaching people who haven’t been part of the fight before.” Despite thousands of documented cases, officials have done almost nothing to protect tenants or hold exploitative landlords and realtors accountable.

“这场危机正在波及那些以前没有参与过战斗的人。”尽管有数千起记录在案的案件，官员们几乎没有采取任何措施来保护租户或追究剥削性的房东和房地产经纪人的责任。

(Only 14 violators have been charged so far, which is less than 1 percent of total cases.) Meanwhile, the rent gouging continues.

（到目前为止，只有 14 名违规者受到指控，不到案件总数的 1%。）与此同时，哄抬租金的行为仍在继续。

But Kirk’s essay is more than an indictment of government inaction and landlord greed; it’s a testament to the power of collective action in a time of layered crises.

但柯克的文章不仅仅是对政府不作为和地主贪婪的控诉；这证明了在多重危机时期集体行动的力量。

“What landlords fear is that we might imagine something better: a world where housing isn’t a commodity at all, a world without landlords,” she writes.

“房东担心的是，我们可能会想象出更好的东西：一个住房根本不是商品的世界，一个没有房东的世界，”她写道。

This is a vision of what’s possible when ordinary people start to imagine something different—and work together to make it real.

当普通人开始想象一些不同的东西并共同努力使其成为现实时，这就是一种可能实现的愿景。

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## Radioactive Man

## 放射性人

Maddy Crowell | Harper’s Magazine | April 21, 2025 | 5,486 words

麦迪·克罗威尔 |哈珀杂志 | 2025 年 4 月 21 日 | 5,486 字

Last year, Harper’s ran a feature about people grappling with systemic, sometimes incapacitating maladies.

去年，《哈泼斯》杂志刊登了一篇专题报道，讲述人们如何应对全身性疾病、有时会导致丧失能力的疾病。

The afflicted blame the invisible toxins of modernity—electromagnetic frequencies, chemicals, additives—but society sees them as hypochondriacs or crackpots.

受苦的人将其归咎于现代社会的无形毒素——电磁频率、化学物质、添加剂——但社会却将他们视为疑病症患者或疯子。

Maddy Crowell’s piece in the newest issue of Harper’s acts as a bookend of sorts to that story: another case of hardship compounded by dismissal.

麦迪·克罗威尔（Maddy Crowell）在最新一期《哈泼斯》杂志上发表的文章可以说是这个故事的书挡：又一个因解雇而陷入困境的案例。

Frank Vera III worked at George Air Force Base in the 1970s, where he interacted with what we now know are carcinogenic substances; he also claims to have been exposed to radioactive waste, and began exhibiting symptoms that ended his military career.

弗兰克·维拉三世 (Frank Vera III) 于 20 世纪 70 年代在乔治空军基地工作，在那里他接触到了我们现在所知的致癌物质；他还声称曾接触过放射性废物，并开始出现导致其军事生涯结束的症状。

Yet no one would validate his tale, or his suffering.

然而没有人会证实他的故事或他的痛苦。

Decades later, Vera began posting on Facebook, where he attracted a tribe of others who worked at the same base and claimed similar health troubles.

几十年后，维拉开始在 Facebook 上发帖，吸引了一群在同一基地工作并声称有类似健康问题的其他人。

Enter Crowell—a curious reporter who, to Vera, represented something more like a savior.

克罗威尔登场了——一位好奇的记者，对维拉来说，他更像是一位救世主。

As Crowell begins to investigate the alleged phenomenon, she finds herself examining the meta-phenomenon of conspiratorial thinking.

当克罗威尔开始调查所谓的现象时，她发现自己正在研究阴谋思维的元现象。

Vera’s medical troubles are undeniable; so is the fact that the US military has worked with toxic materials.

维拉的健康问题是不可否认的。事实上，美国军方一直在使用有毒材料。

However, Vera’s crusade had also led him onto shakier ground, and his passion was now mixed with paranoia.

然而，维拉的十字军东征也让他陷入了摇摇欲坠的境地，他的热情现在与偏执交织在一起。

“The more we spoke, the more confused I became,” Crowell writes.

“我们说得越多，我就越困惑，”克罗威尔写道。

“Many of his most impassioned beliefs seemed wildly incoherent.

“他的许多最热情的信念似乎非常不连贯。

But Frank’s emotional and physical pain was undeniable.

但弗兰克的情感和身体上的痛苦是不可否认的。

He cried several times.

他哭了好几次。

And even if he lacked a smoking gun, he had enough evidence to indicate that the Air Force wasn’t being totally forthright about whatever had been going on at George.” There are no easy answers here.

即使他缺乏确凿的证据，他也有足够的证据表明空军并没有完全坦白乔治发生的事情。”这里没有简单的答案。

There’s plenty of stonewalling, though, and bureaucracy that seems designed to thwart accountability.

然而，存在大量的阻挠和官僚主义似乎旨在阻碍问责。

So, perhaps unsurprisingly, Crowell is unable to bring her investigation to a satisfying end.

因此，也许并不令人意外的是，克罗威尔无法让她的调查取得令人满意的结果。

But that’s also the only possible outcome here, if you think about it.

但如果你仔细想想，这也是这里唯一可能的结果。

After all, it’s only wrong if you get caught.

毕竟，只有被抓住才是错误的。

And the more power you have, the unlikelier that is.

你拥有的权力越多，这种情况就越不可能发生。

—PR

——公关

## May

##五月

## Losing My Dad in Installments

## 分期付款失去我的父亲

Mariana Serapicos | Electric Literature | April 24, 2025 | 3,935 words

玛丽安娜·塞拉皮科斯 |电气文献| 2025 年 4 月 24 日 | 3,935 字

My parents, who are in their mid-70s, are preparing to sell the house they’ve lived in for nearly 50 years.

我的父母已经70多岁了，正准备卖掉他们住了近50年的房子。

I’ve been scanning my mind for the memories we’ve made in that home.

我一直在脑海中寻找我们在那个家里留下的回忆。

In many of them, my dad is tinkering with something—up a ladder, barefoot, hammering on the siding; searching for a tool in the garage; changing the oil in his car.

在其中许多作品中，我父亲正在摆弄一些东西——赤脚爬上梯子，敲击壁板；在车库里寻找工具；给他的车换油。

He is a fixer for life, eternally excited about a piece of wood, but these days, I see him resting on the couch a lot more.

他是一个生活的修复者，对一块木头永远感到兴奋，但这些天，我看到他更多地在沙发上休息。

Reading Mariana Serapicos’s tribute to her own father, it’s hard not to think about my dad getting older.

阅读玛丽安娜·塞拉皮科斯对自己父亲的致敬，很难不去想我父亲正在变老。

Serapicos’s father got sick when she was a child, diagnosed with ALS at a time when not many people were aware of the disease.

塞拉皮科斯的父亲在她还是个孩子的时候就生病了，被诊断出患有 ALS，当时没有多少人知道这种疾病。

Her descriptions of watching his health deteriorate are tough.

她对看着他的健康状况恶化的描述很艰难。

But her descriptions of his love for his family, and a life of joy despite hardship, are ultimately what I take away from this piece.

但她对他对家人的爱的描述，以及尽管艰辛却充满欢乐的生活，最终是我从这篇文章中学到的。

The first (and last) time she sees her dad in the hospital, they communicate through letters and sentences on a piece of cardboard.

她第一次（也是最后一次）在医院见到父亲时，他们通过一块纸板上的字母和句子进行交流。

“We talked about plain things because everything else was too big, because plainness is the fabric of life,” she writes.

“我们谈论平淡的事情，因为其他一切都太大了，因为平淡是生活的基础，”她写道。

This line encapsulates what I love about this essay.

这句话概括了我对这篇文章的喜爱。

She captures everyday details—his Birkenstocks, their days at the pool, the way she danced on his feet and combed his oily hair—that celebrate a hardworking and joyful man who lived fully.

她捕捉日常细节——他的勃肯鞋、他们在泳池边的日子、她在他脚上跳舞的方式以及梳理他油腻的头发的方式——这些都颂扬了这个勤奋而快乐、生活充实的男人。

Serapicos leaves us with a moving portrait not of decline, but of presence.

塞拉皮科斯给我们留下了一幅动人的肖像，不是衰落，而是存在。

—CLR

—CLR

## North Korea Stole Your Job

## 朝鲜偷走了你的工作

Bobbie Johnson | Wired | May 1, 2025 | 3,848 words

鲍比·约翰逊 |有线| 2025 年 5 月 1 日 | 3,848 字

I’ve worked remotely for almost 15 years, well before logging in from the kitchen or couch became mainstream.

在从厨房或沙发登录成为主流之前，我已经远程工作了近 15 年。

There’s a lot you can glean about your coworkers just by being online with them over time.

只要长时间与同事在线交流，您就可以收集到很多关于他们的信息。

You build rapport, deep respect, and above all, trust.

你建立了融洽的关系、深深的尊重，最重要的是，建立了信任。

That’s why Bobbie Johnson’s Wired piece about how North Korea used American shills to put fake workers inside over 300 US companies yanked my neck on a chain.

这就是为什么博比·约翰逊 (Bobbie Johnson) 在《连线》杂志上发表的一篇文章，内容是朝鲜如何利用美国的托儿，在 300 多家美国公司内安插假工人，并用链子猛地拉住我的脖子。

Christina Chapman was a shill.

克里斯蒂娜·查普曼是个骗子。

Once a worker landed a job, she housed and maintained the fake’s laptop, received their pay, took a cut, and wired the rest of the money to North Korea.

一旦一名工人找到工作，她就会安置并维护冒牌货的笔记本电脑，收到他们的工资，从中提成，然后将剩下的钱电汇到朝鲜。

Before the law caught up to her, she ran a laptop farm from her Arizona home with dozens of computers linked to different workers.

在法律追究她之前，她在亚利桑那州的家中经营着一个笔记本电脑农场，其中有数十台计算机与不同的工人相连。

Several people in the US have been charged, and these cases are winding their way through the courts.

美国已有多人受到指控，这些案件正在法院审理中。

But where did it all begin?

但这一切从哪里开始呢？

In North Korea, all roads lead to the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un.

在朝鲜，条条道路都通向该国独裁者金正恩。

Kim is a gaming enthusiast secretly educated in Switzerland, and he made investing in IT a top priority after taking over from his father in 2011.

Kim 是一位在瑞士秘密接受教育的游戏爱好者，2011 年接替父亲后，他将 IT 投资作为首要任务。

Computer science courses now run in schools, and the most promising students are taught hacking techniques and foreign languages.

现在学校开设计算机科学课程，最有前途的学生会学习黑客技术和外语。

They’re allowed a glimmer of freedom in access to the actual internet so that they can excel as operatives for the state.

他们被允许有一丝访问实际互联网的自由，这样他们就可以成为国家的优秀特工。

Johnson surveys the history of North Korean hacking success, and the surprising (and sad) communal conditions under which operatives work today, all to pad Kim’s pocket.

约翰逊调查了朝鲜黑客攻击成功的历史，以及今天特工人员令人惊讶（且悲伤）的工作条件，所有这些都是为了中饱私囊。

This piece puts you on the edge of your seat for the audacity of the cybercrime alone.

这篇文章让您对网络犯罪的大胆行为感到紧张。

It takes a hilarious turn when Johnson rides along with a recruiter, coming face to face with more than one North Korean operative applying for, and in one case, spectacularly failing to land a lucrative American job.

当约翰逊与一名招聘人员一起骑行时，遇到了不止一名朝鲜特工申请，并且在其中一次，他惊人地未能找到一份利润丰厚的美国工作，事情发生了搞笑的转折。

It’s a scene you won’t want to miss.

这是一个你不想错过的场景。

—KS

—KS

## ‘It’s Like a War Zone’: What Happened When Portland Decriminalized Fentanyl

## “这就像一个战区”：当波特兰将芬太尼合法化时发生了什么

Jason Motlagh | Rolling Stone | April 27, 2025 | 6,716 words

贾森·莫特拉|滚石 | 2025 年 4 月 27 日 | 6,716 字

In a bid to emulate Portugal and France, where “nuanced approaches prioritizing health care over punishment have curtailed overdoses and public drug use,” Oregon decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs like fentanyl and meth in 2020.

为了效仿葡萄牙和法国，俄勒冈州在 2020 年将持有芬太尼和冰毒等少量硬性毒品合法化，这两个国家“采取了将医疗保健置于惩罚之上的微妙方法，减少了吸毒过量和公共场所吸毒”。

The state redirected hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for enforcement and incarceration toward treatment and harm reduction.

该州将专门用于执法和监禁的数亿美元转用于治疗和减少伤害。

It all seemed reasonable in theory, but Mexican drug cartels took full advantage.

理论上这一切似乎都很合理，但墨西哥贩毒集团却充分利用了这一点。

They flooded the US with fentanyl, which forced the price down, making it accessible for as little as $1 per pill.

他们向美国大量供应芬太尼，从而压低了芬太尼的价格，使其每片售价低至 1 美元。

Then came the pandemic, where isolation, despair, and the cheap, plentiful supply became a horrific combination.

然后是大流行，孤立、绝望和廉价、充足的供应成为一个可怕的组合。

“Portland became a honeypot for local and out-of-state addicts to score cheap dope and use it freely,” writes Jason Motlagh for Rolling Stone.

“波特兰成为当地和州外瘾君子获取廉价毒品并自由使用的蜜罐，”滚石杂志的杰森·莫特拉写道。

After the state repealed decriminalization in 2024, Motlagh visited Portland to witness the aftermath.

2024 年该州废除非刑事化后，莫特拉访问了波特兰，亲眼目睹了后果。

His careful reporting puts him face to face with people on all sides of the drug crisis: He talks to a hotel owner and the local district attorney; he shadows treatment workers and harm reduction volunteers on their rounds; he witnesses a man brought back from the brink of overdose with four naloxone injections; he gets to know addicts as they cycle through rock bottom and relapse.

他细致的报道使他能够与毒品危机各方的人士面对面：他与一家酒店老板和当地地方检察官交谈；他跟踪治疗人员和减少伤害志愿者巡视；他亲眼目睹一名男子通过注射四次纳洛酮从吸毒过量的边缘被救了回来；他逐渐了解了瘾君子们从低谷到复吸的过程。

So how’s it going?

进展如何？

Today, naloxone is more readily available on the street.

如今，纳洛酮在街上更容易买到。

Overdoses are down slightly with a less potent supply.

由于供应效力减弱，过量用药略有减少。

(Some say the cartels are trying to keep their customers alive longer.) While at times this was a very difficult read, it was plain to see that in Portland, there is something other than fentanyl available in large supply—hope.

（有人说卡特尔试图让他们的顾客活得更久。）虽然有时读起来很困难，但很明显，在波特兰，除了芬太尼之外，还有其他东西可以大量供应——希望。

—KS

—KS

## Pirates of the Ayahuasca

## 死藤水海盗

Sarah Miller | n+1 | May 20, 2025 | 8,216 words

莎拉·米勒 | n+1 | 2025 年 5 月 20 日 | 8,216 字

Not so long ago, Sarah Miller was Not Doing Well.

不久前，莎拉·米勒的表现并不好。

Like, Not Doing Well at an existential, nearly cellular level.

就像，在存在主义的、近乎细胞的层面上做得不好。

She despaired about the world and its fate, about her own pessimisim, about her role in the world.

她对世界及其命运、对自己的悲观主义、对自己在世界上的角色感到绝望。

She also had no idea how to navigate her despair, let alone resolve it, until she decided—with no small amount of misgiving—that ayahuasca was worth a shot.

她也不知道如何摆脱绝望，更不用说解决它了，直到她带着不小的疑虑决定死藤水值得一试。

So: off to Peru!

所以：去秘鲁吧！

In the 1,500 words it takes for Miller to reach the center where she’ll journey to her own center, you get a very clear sense that you are in very good hands.

在米勒到达中心所需的 1,500 个单词中，她将前往她自己的中心，你会非常清楚地感觉到你得到了很好的照顾。

Not only does she wield a gratifyingly caustic sense of humor, but she has the rare gift of bidirectional analysis; she is both intensely self-aware and intensely judgmental, leveling the same withering gaze inward and outward.

她不仅具有令人愉悦的刻薄幽默感，而且还具有双向分析的罕见天赋。她既具有强烈的自我意识，又具有强烈的批判性，无论是向内还是向外，都以同样令人沮丧的目光注视着她。

(Let me be clear: This is a compliment.

（让我明确一点：这是一种恭维。

No one likes everybody.

没有人喜欢所有人。

The least you can do is own your reasoning.) And when she arrives, all these traits combine to create a psychedelia of their own.

你至少能做的就是拥有自己的推理。）当她到来时，所有这些特征结合在一起创造了一种属于自己的迷幻。

There’s the pre-trip purgation, of course.

当然，还有旅行前的净化。

The seven (seven!) ayahuasca experiences, each of which manages to disappoint or even re-traumatize Miller in some novel way.

七次（七次！）死藤水体验，每一次都以某种新颖的方式让米勒失望，甚至再次受到创伤。

The other people, who she renders with a keen meanness, or possibly a mean keenness.

其他人，她把他们描绘成一种敏锐的卑鄙，或者可能是一种卑鄙的敏锐。

Yet, none of this feels like punching down, or self-absorption, or any of the other pitfalls that lurk in a piece like this.

然而，这一切都不像是打击、自我陶醉或潜伏在这样的作品中的任何其他陷阱。

It’s not that she hates, it’s that she hurts.

她不是恨，而是痛。

Does the ayahuasca care?

死藤水在乎吗？

It does not.

事实并非如此。

Instead, it pushes her through the darkness, again and again.

相反，它一次又一次地推动她穿过黑暗。

“My life was a selfish joke,” she writes of the reality that consumed her during her sixth trip.

“我的生活是一个自私的玩笑，”她在谈到第六次旅行中吞噬她的现实时写道。

“My desire to express myself was risible.

“我表达自己的愿望是可笑的。

I had come here to find hope but what I found instead was the definitive end of it.” The theme of the latest issue of n+1 is Harsh Realm, and this very unfunny realization in the midst of a very funny piece makes clear that, for most of us, the harshest realm of all is the doubt that lurks inside us.

我来这里是为了寻找希望，但我发现的却是最终的结局。”最新一期《n+1》的主题是“严酷境界”，在一个非常有趣的作品中，这种非常无趣的认识清楚地表明，对于我们大多数人来说，最严酷的境界是潜伏在我们内心的怀疑。

—PR

——公关

## The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

## 暗网迷幻药头目的史诗般的兴衰

Andy Greenberg | Wired | May 22, 2025 | 12,182 words

安迪·格林伯格 |有线| 2025 年 5 月 22 日 | 12,182 字

Over the past week, I shared so many stories about psychedelics in a group chat that a friend asked me if I had a new hobby she should know about.

过去一周，我在群聊中分享了很多关于迷幻药的故事，一位朋友问我是否有一个新的爱好，她应该知道。

I only get high on narrative journalism, maaaaan, and Andy Greenberg’s piece about Akasha Song’s DMT empire is a trip.

我只对叙事新闻感到兴奋，maaaaan，安迪·格林伯格关于阿卡莎·宋的 DMT 帝国的文章是一次旅行。

(It also lasts longer than the average DMT experience, and causes little to no ego death.) Song fell in love with LSD in high school, back when he was named Joseph Clements; 20 years later, he discovered the mind-altering joys of dimethyltryptamine.

（它的持续时间也比一般的 DMT 经历要长，并且几乎不会导致自我死亡。）宋在高中时就爱上了 LSD，当时他还被命名为约瑟夫·克莱门茨 (Joseph Clements)；当时他还没有被命名为约瑟夫·克莱门茨 (Joseph Clements)。 20 年后，他发现了二甲基色胺带来的改变思想的乐趣。

First he learned to make the drug, extracting it from a tree bark that’s legal to buy.

首先，他学会了从合法购买的树皮中提取药物来制造这种药物。

Then he started selling it to friends.

然后他开始把它卖给朋友。

Then he found the dark web and started selling more.

然后他发现了暗网并开始销售更多产品。

A lot more.

还有很多。

His operation grew.

他的业务不断扩大。

He laundered the money through crypto.

他通过加密货币洗钱。

He moved from Colorado to Texas to Northern California, expanding all the while—until, inevitably, it all came crashing down.

他从科罗拉多州搬到德克萨斯州，再到北加州，一直在扩张——直到不可避免地，一切都崩溃了。

Greenberg specializes in this sort of story, having profiled McDonald’s ice-cream machine hackers, swatting teenagers, white-hat hackers, and more, and he’s in characteristically fine form here.

格林伯格专门研究这类故事，他曾报道过麦当劳冰淇淋机黑客、殴打青少年、白帽黑客等等，他在这里表现得非常出色。

It helps that Song landed on his feet, and shared a trove of the detail (and proof) that’s so crucial to that cinematic feel.

这有助于宋站起来，并分享了对电影感至关重要的大量细节（和证据）。

You’re reading Greenberg’s words, but you’re in Song’s world, from the first tab to the last chat.

你正在阅读格林伯格的文字，但从第一个选项卡到最后一次聊天，你都处于宋的世界中。

—PR

——公关

## June

## 六月

## Escape from Los Angeles

## 逃离洛杉矶

Katya Apekina | Alta Journal | June 3, 2025 | 1,561 words

卡蒂亚·阿佩金娜 |阿尔塔杂志| 2025 年 6 月 3 日 | 1,561 字

A mile from our home marks the burn line from a wildfire that ignited on a scorching day in May and consumed 4,000 hectares within hours, urged on by gusting south winds.

距离我们家一英里的地方是一场野火的燃烧线，这场野火在五月的一个炎热的日子里点燃，在阵风南风的推动下，几小时内就烧毁了 4,000 公顷土地。

Pines, poplars, and skinny ash trees are dead standing in that eerie, blackened landscape.

松树、白杨树和枯瘦的白蜡树都枯死地矗立在这片阴森恐怖的黑色景观中。

The trees and the brush will grow back.

树木和灌木丛会重新长出来。

Two people on our small peninsula did not make it out in time.

我们小半岛上的两个人没能及时逃出来。

This is the worst wildfire season in my province’s history and it’s only the beginning of June.

这是我省历史上最严重的野火季节，而且现在才六月初。

I’ve read and heard many wildfire stories over the years; a US colleague used to live through the summers with a “go” bag packed with essentials and family treasures, should the worst come to pass and threaten their home.

多年来，我读过、听过许多野火故事；一位美国同事过去常常带着一个装满必需品和家庭珍宝的“随身携带”包度过夏天，以防最坏的情况发生并威胁到他们的家。

I never really understood what that meant until I read The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle, in which he reports on climate change-induced migration, wildfire being one cause.

我从来没有真正理解这意味着什么，直到我读了杰克·比特尔的《大流离失所》，他在其中报道了气候变化引起的移民，野火是原因之一。

(It’s a terrific, eye-opening book, full of personal stories.

（这是一本很棒的、令人大开眼界的书，充满了个人故事。

You should check it out.) Ever since, I’ve been compelled to read every wildfire story I find.

你应该检查一下。）从那时起，我就被迫阅读我找到的每一个野火故事。

That’s why Katya Apekina’s account of the Palisades and Eaton Fires for Alta Journal caught my attention.

这就是为什么卡蒂亚·阿皮金娜 (Katya Apekina) 为阿尔塔日报 (Alta Journal) 对栅栏和伊顿火灾的报道引起了我的注意。

The morning of January 7, 2025, dawns like an ordinary Tuesday.

2025 年 1 月 7 日早晨，黎明就像一个普通的星期二。

The Santa Ana winds feel a little spooky, a little exciting for Apekina, the “L.A.

圣安娜的风让“洛杉矶”阿皮基纳 (Apekina) 感觉有点阴森、有点刺激。

version of a snowstorm.” But then the winds pick up.

暴风雪的版本。”但随后风势增强。

The fire, which had started 20 miles away, roars closer.

大火是从 20 英里外开始的，现在已经越来越近了。

The tension in this essay grows and develops like a fully-fledged character as she recounts a surreal scene: her husband reading “a biography of J.

当她讲述一个超现实的场景时，这篇文章中的紧张气氛像一个成熟的角色一样成长和发展：她的丈夫正在阅读“J.

Edgar Hoover by candlelight as the fire rages in the windows behind him.” Soon, the air turns acrid with dense smoke.

埃德加·胡佛在烛光下，他身后的窗户里熊熊燃烧。”很快，空气中弥漫着浓烟，变得刺鼻。

It tastes toxic.

味道有毒。

People are losing their houses as the fire advances.

随着火势蔓延，人们正在失去房屋。

They are dying.

他们快死了。

Paper artifacts of lives lived float to earth the following day, having escaped the flames.

第二天，活生生的纸制品逃离了火焰，漂浮到了地球上。

“Pages from the Bible, or Alcoholics Anonymous literature, or old encyclopedias—thin pages that traveled downwind for several miles—drifted into people’s yards,” she writes in the aftermath, a period in which she questions her future in Los Angeles and how to live, moment to moment, while processing the catastrophe.

她在灾后写道：“《圣经》、戒酒互诫协会文献或古老百科全书的书页——顺风飘了几英里的薄页——飘进了人们的院子里。”在这段时期，她在应对这场灾难的同时，质疑自己在洛杉矶的未来，以及如何生活。

“I’m in a state of hysterical terror.

“我处于歇斯底里的恐惧状态。

I want to go home.

我想回家。

This is not my home.” As Apekina suggests, it may be time for many of us to reconsider what home really means.

这不是我的家。”正如 Apekina 所说，我们中的许多人可能是时候重新考虑家的真正含义了。

If you can make a space for home in your heart, at least you can take it with you when you have to flee.

如果你能在心里腾出一个家的空间，至少在你不得不逃离的时候你可以带着它。

—KS

—KS

## The Boy Who Came Back: The Near-Death, and Changed Life, of My Son Max

## 回来的男孩：我儿子麦克斯的濒临死亡并改变了他的生活

Archie Bland | The Guardian | May 24, 2025 | 7,053 words

阿奇·布兰德 |卫报| 2025 年 5 月 24 日 | 7,053 字

At seven weeks old, Max stopped breathing.

七周大时，麦克斯停止了呼吸。

His father, Guardian journalist Archie Bland, recounts what followed with harrowing clarity: performing CPR on his infant son, the frantic ambulance ride, an insect crawling “along a fluorescent light,” each detail etched into his trauma-heightened memory.

他的父亲、《卫报》记者阿奇·布兰德 (Archie Bland) 清晰地讲述了接下来发生的事情：对他还在襁褓中的儿子进行心肺复苏、疯狂的救护车之旅、一只昆虫“沿着荧光灯”爬行，每一个细节都深深地铭刻在他因创伤而加深的记忆中。

Two years on, Max lives with cerebral palsy, the result of oxygen deprivation during a likely SIDS event.

两年后，麦克斯患有脑瘫，这是在可能发生的婴儿猝死综合症事件中缺氧造成的。

Bland writes not just to honor his son—“already a thousand times more interesting than anyone I’ve ever met”—but to hold a mirror up to himself.

布兰德写作不仅是为了纪念他的儿子——“他比我见过的任何人都有趣一千倍”——而是为了给自己树立一面镜子。

He examines the quiet entitlement of his life before (“As a white man named Archibald, I always suspected I was missing something about the impact of privilege”) and the raw rage he feels parenting a disabled child in a world full of “absolute doughnuts,” people who compare Max’s condition to a child’s squint or ask no questions at all.

他审视了自己以前平静的生活（“作为一个名叫阿奇博尔德的白人，我一直怀疑自己忽略了特权的影响”），以及在一个充满“绝对甜甜圈”的世界里养育一个残疾孩子时他感到的原始愤怒，人们把马克斯的状况比作孩子的斜视，或者根本不问任何问题。

Bland’s writing is funny, furious, and brutally honest.

布兰德的写作有趣、愤怒，而且极其诚实。

“I understand things about myself and the world now that I can’t wish I didn’t know,” he writes, no longer a “genial ignoramus.” Max himself brings so much joy, and Bland wants us to know him not for what he lacks but for everything he is.

“我现在了解了关于我自己和世界的事情，我不能希望我不知道，”他写道，不再是一个“和蔼的无知者”。马克斯本人带来了如此多的快乐，布兰德希望我们了解他，不是因为他缺乏什么，而是因为他的一切。

After reading, listen to Bland’s interview on Today in Focus.

读完后，请收听《今日焦点》布兰德的采访。

You’ll hear Max laugh, and it’s beautiful.

你会听到麦克斯的笑声，那笑声很美。

—CW

—CW

## Crimes of the Century

## 世纪犯罪

Suzy Hansen | New York | June 16, 2025 | 10,071 words

苏西·汉森 |纽约 | 2025 年 6 月 16 日 | 10,071 字

Finally.

最后。

That was my first thought when I finished reading Suzy Hansen’s damning cover story detailing Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza.

当我读完苏西·汉森（Suzy Hansen）详细描述以色列在加沙违反国际人道主义法的可恶的封面故事时，这是我的第一个想法。

These violations have been repeated and flagrant, and they have been documented by brave Palestinian journalists and civilians, as well as NGOs, UN agencies, and visiting medical providers.

这些侵犯行为一再发生，而且是公然的，勇敢的巴勒斯坦记者和平民、非政府组织、联合国机构和来访的医疗服务提供者都记录下了这些行为。

Indeed, Hansen’s feature isn’t an investigation, because an investigation wasn’t necessary—mountains of evidence of Israel’s crimes were readily available.

事实上，汉森的专题不是调查，因为调查是没有必要的——以色列罪行的大量证据很容易获得。

What took so long for a writer at a legacy media publication in the West to muster that evidence and say what is so plainly true?

西方一家传统媒体出版物的作家为何花了这么长时间才收集证据并说出如此明显的事实？

Hansen has an answer, because her essential piece is also about the international complicity that has allowed Israel to kill, terrorize, and humiliate its targets unchecked.

汉森有一个答案，因为她的重要文章也是关于国际共谋，使以色列能够不受限制地杀戮、恐吓和羞辱其目标。

Chief among Israel’s aiders and abettors was the Biden administration, building on a post-9/11 legacy of normalizing humanitarian abuses; its successor is no better.

以色列的主要支持者和教唆者是拜登政府，其建立在 9/11 事件后人道主义虐待正常化的基础上。它的继任者也好不到哪儿去。

“As the theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel said, in a free society, ‘few are guilty, all are responsible.’ This includes many institutions outside government, like the mainstream media,” Hansen writes.

“正如神学家亚伯拉罕·约书亚·赫舍尔所说，在自由社会中，‘很少有人有罪，所有人都有责任。’这包括许多政府以外的机构，比如主流媒体，”汉森写道。

“[W]estern newspapers and networks still faithfully print Israeli talking points, excuses, and outright lies.” The cumulative effect of this rampant cruelty and complicity is, of course, mass suffering, but it also signals the ultimate failure of a body of law established over the last century to prevent exactly that.

“西方报纸和网络仍然忠实地报道以色列的谈话要点、借口和彻头彻尾的谎言。”当然，这种猖獗的残忍行为和共谋行为的累积效应是造成大规模痛苦，但它也标志着上个世纪为防止这种情况而建立的法律体系最终失败。

This failure was not inevitable.

这次失败并非不可避免。

Power and prejudice are to blame.

权力和偏见是罪魁祸首。

Hansen hopes there is something to salvage here, a shared standard of human decency.

汉森希望这里能挽救一些东西，即人类尊严的共同标准。

But I’m doubtful, and I’m not alone.

但我对此表示怀疑，而且我并不孤单。

“Elite impunity is the sole remaining area of bipartisan consensus,” Matt Duss, Bernie Sanders’s former foreign-policy chief and the executive vice-president of the Center for International Policy, tells Hansen.

“精英有罪不罚是两党共识的唯一剩余领域，”伯尼·桑德斯的前外交政策负责人、国际政策中心执行副总裁马特·杜斯告诉汉森。

“They understand that whatever they do, it’s not going to really hurt them because, you know, Donald Rumsfeld died in his bed.” —SD

“他们明白，无论他们做什么，都不会真正伤害他们，因为，你知道，唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德死在床上。” —SD

## At Jackie Robinson’s High School, Altadena Rebuilds After Fire

## 杰基罗宾逊高中火灾后重建

Alyssa Roenigk | ESPN | June 20, 2025 | 4,016 words

艾莉莎·罗尼克 | ESPN | 2025 年 6 月 20 日 | 4,016 字

My husband’s cousin and her family lost their home in the Eaton Fire.

我丈夫的表弟和她的家人在伊顿大火中失去了家园。

Nothing was salvageable.

没有什么是可以挽回的。

While I was putting together a care package for them, I would look at an item in a store and wonder, “Do they already have this?” Then I’d remember: They don’t have anything.

当我为他们准备护理包时，我会看着商店里的一件商品并想知道，“他们已经有这个了吗？”然后我想起来：他们什么都没有。

This happened again and again, as my brain struggled to grasp the fact and meaning of total loss.

当我的大脑努力理解完全失去的事实和含义时，这种情况一次又一次地发生。

Here, Alyssa Roenigk spends time with students at Altadena’s John Muir High School, where unthinkable loss is nearly endemic: One in four kids at Muir lost their homes or were displaced by the fire.

在这里，艾莉莎·罗尼克 (Alyssa Roenigk) 与阿尔塔迪纳约翰缪尔高中 (Altadena’s John Muir High School) 的学生们一起度过了时光，那里难以想象的损失几乎是普遍现象：缪尔高中四分之一的孩子失去了家园或因火灾而流离失所。

Roenigk gracefully timestamps sections of her piece with the number of days since the fire began, echoing the way many Altadenans now think: “Dates are no longer defined by a calendar but instead by how much time has passed since that fateful Tuesday.” Nine days after the fire, Muir senior Jasmine Collins is living in a motel with her mother and siblings; all of their worldly possessions now fit into their truck.

罗尼克优雅地在她作品的各个部分加上了火灾发生后的天数，这与许多阿塔德南人现在的想法相呼应：“日期不再由日历来定义，而是由那个决定性的星期二以来已经过去了多少时间来定义。”火灾发生九天后，缪尔大学四年级学生贾斯敏·柯林斯 (Jasmine Collins) 与母亲和兄弟姐妹住在一家汽车旅馆里。现在他们所有的财产都装进了他们的卡车。

Fifty days after the fire, someone breaks into the truck and steals everything.

火灾发生五十天后，有人闯入卡车并偷走了所有东西。

This is one of many details Roenigk musters to remind her readers that disaster has a long, painful, and unpredictable tail.

这是罗尼克收集的众多细节之一，旨在提醒读者灾难有一条漫长、痛苦且不可预测的尾巴。

“Money from online fundraisers is drying up,” she writes.

“来自在线筹款活动的资金正在枯竭，”她写道。

“Donation centers are packing up and closing.

“捐赠中心正在收拾行李并关闭。

The rebuilding process is slow.” People are leaving Altadena, too, including some whose families have been there for generations.

重建进程缓慢。”人们也正在离开阿尔塔迪纳，其中包括一些世世代代居住在那里的人。

Those who remain must adjust to a new normal.

留下来的人必须适应新常态。

“If we’re choosing to stay,” one of Roenigk’s subjects says, “then we’re going to have to embrace that it’s never going to be the same again.” There is beauty, of course, in rising from the ashes.

“如果我们选择留下来，”罗尼克的一位研究对象说道，“那么我们就必须接受这样的事实：一切都将不再一样了。”当然，从灰烬中崛起是美丽的。

But Roenigk’s story shows that there is also beauty in making space for grief.

但罗尼克的故事表明，为悲伤腾出空间也有其美感。

In a memorable scene, Jasmine’s water polo coach asks how she’s doing after a game that takes place just 16 days after the fire: “Jasmine looks up.

在一个令人难忘的场景中，茉莉花的水球教练在火灾发生 16 天后举行的一场比赛后问她怎么样：“茉莉花抬起头来。

‘I .

‘我。

.

。

.

。

’ She stops.

’她停了下来。

Her eyes fill with tears.

她的眼睛里充满了泪水。

She smiles and forms a heart with her hands.” —SD

她微笑着，用手捏出一颗心。” —SD

## July

##七月

## The Geological Sublime

## 地质的崇高

Lewis Hyde | Harper’s Magazine | June 18, 2025 | 6,655 words

刘易斯·海德 |哈珀杂志 | 2025 年 6 月 18 日 | 6,655 字

Frequent readers of our curation have probably sussed out that different editors have different pet topics.

我们的策展内容的常客可能已经发现，不同的编辑有不同的宠物主题。

Every Friday, one Longreads spouse tries to match each Top 5 pick to an editor, just from reading the headlines.

每个星期五，Longreads 的一位配偶都会尝试通过阅读头条新闻将每个前 5 名的精选内容与编辑匹配。

(Results vary.) I have my own, but reading Lewis Hyde’s piece this week added another to the list: deep time.

（结果各不相同。）我有自己的，但本周阅读刘易斯·海德（Lewis Hyde）的文章在列表中添加了另一个：深度时间。

The fact that change happens on a scale that humans simply can’t register continues to light up the wonder center in my brain.

事实上，变化的规模是人类根本无法记录的，这一事实继续照亮了我大脑中的奇迹中心。

In the past, this has happened with a 2023 Lachlan Summers Aeon story about how Mexico City residents are “stranded” in time; now, it’s Hyde’s exploration of how Charles Lyell first envisioned deep time, and how Charles Darwin rested his most famous theory on it.

过去，这种情况曾发生在 2023 年 Lachlan Summers Aeon 的故事中，讲述墨西哥城居民如何“被困在时间里”；现在，海德探索了查尔斯·莱尔 (Charles Lyell) 如何首次设想深度时间，以及查尔斯·达尔文 (Charles Darwin) 如何在此基础上建立了他最著名的理论。

Species evolve, as Carolyn reminded us recently, in fits and starts, in a way that’s nearly impossible for humans to witness.

正如卡罗琳最近提醒我们的那样，物种的进化时断时续，其方式人类几乎不可能亲眼目睹。

Increasingly, though, that work is being undone on a scale that’s tragically perceptible.

然而，这项工作正在以可悲的规模逐渐被取消。

“Eleven thousand years of survival versus a few decades of decline: it may not be clear how we are to reckon with spans of time so utterly out of proportion with one another,” Hyde writes, “but that is now the task at hand as more species decline or go extinct.” Frankly, I wrestled with whether to include any quote from the piece in this blurb, since it just makes me want to share a half-dozen others.

海德写道：“一万一千年的生存与几十年的衰退：我们可能不清楚如何计算彼此之间如此完全不成比例的时间跨度，但随着更多物种衰退或灭绝，这就是我们现在面临的任务。”坦率地说，我一直在纠结是否要在这篇简介中引用这篇文章，因为它只会让我想分享其他六个内容。

I read this story with my jaw half-open, as I always do when a writer manages to communicate science’s most incomprehensible truths.

我半张着下巴读这个故事，就像当作家设法传达科学最难以理解的真理时我总是这样做的那样。

It’s the kind of writing that sends me to the bookstore, that gets my note-taking hand twitching, that makes my brain feel hungry for more.

这种写作会让我去书店，让我记笔记的手抽搐，让我的大脑感到渴望更多。

It might just do the same for you.

它可能对你也有同样的作用。

—PR

——公关

## “The River House Broke.

## “河边的房子坏了。

We Rushed in the River.”

我们冲进河里。”

Aaron Parsley | Texas Monthly | July 10, 2025 | 4,383 words

亚伦·欧芹 |德克萨斯月刊| 2025 年 7 月 10 日 | 4,383 字

Imagine being at your family house on the Guadalupe River in Texas, ready to enjoy some July Fourth summer fun.

想象一下，您在德克萨斯州瓜达卢佩河畔的家中，准备享受七月四日的夏日乐趣。

Now imagine waking in the wee hours to discover that flash flood waters have trapped you in the house.

现在想象一下，你在凌晨醒来，发现山洪将你困在房子里。

Your elderly dad and your partner are there.

你年迈的父亲和你的伴侣在那里。

Your sister and brother-in-law are there too, along with their two children, a daughter, age 4, and a son, 20 months old.

你的姐姐和姐夫也在那里，还有他们的两个孩子，一个 4 岁的女儿和一个 20 个月大的儿子。

It’s dark.

天黑了。

The water is at the deck, which is 20 feet off the ground.

水位于距离地面 20 英尺的甲板上。

The water is moving fast and filled with debris and it’s rising.

水流快速流动，充满了碎片，并且正在上升。

Window glass shatters as the river invades the house.

当河流侵入房屋时，窗户玻璃破碎。

There is nowhere to evacuate to.

无处可逃。

You feel the room shift and tilt as the house is lifted off the foundation and seconds later is torn apart.

当房子从地基上抬起时，你会感觉到房间移动和倾斜，几秒钟后就被撕裂了。

This is the scene Aaron Parsley describes in his harrowing and unforgettable first-person account of the flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas.

这是亚伦·帕斯利 (Aaron Parsley) 在他对德克萨斯州克尔县山洪爆发的悲惨而难忘的第一人称描述中所描述的场景。

Parsley’s writing is so taut and tense and immediate that time slowed, and then stopped as I read this piece.

欧芹的写作是如此紧张、紧张和直接，以至于当我读这篇文章时，时间变慢了，然后停止了。

This is a story I’ll always remember.

这是一个我永远记得的故事。

It put my heart in my throat as I choked back sobs, bereft for this family and their tragedy.

当我强忍住抽泣时，我的心提到了嗓子眼，因为我失去了这个家庭和他们的悲剧。

“Alissa managed to keep both kids on the countertop, one hand on each, still trying to reassure them,” he writes.

“艾丽莎设法让两个孩子都站在工作台上，每人一只手，仍然试图安抚他们，”他写道。

“As the house came undone, she grabbed one in each arm.

“当房子被拆毁时，她两只手臂都抓住了一个。

This is the part that will forever haunt me.” This piece doesn’t concern itself with second-guessing weather forecasts, warnings, or the timeliness of the emergency response.

这是我永远难以忘怀的部分。”本文不涉及事后猜测的天气预报、警告或紧急响应的及时性。

Those facts are important, of course, but here, they’re far beside the point.

当然，这些事实很重要，但在这里，它们远远不是重点。

Given the catastrophic loss Parsley and his family suffered, does anything else really matter?

考虑到欧芹和他的家人遭受的灾难性损失，还有什么真的重要吗？

—KS

—KS

## Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future

## 被特朗普抛弃的农民和移民寻找更美好的未来

John Woodrow Cox, Sarah Blaskey, and Matt McClain | The Washington Post | June 21, 2025 | 5,553 words

约翰·伍德罗·考克斯、莎拉·布拉斯基和马特·麦克莱恩 |华盛顿邮报 | 2025 年 6 月 21 日 | 5,553 字

There’s a moment in this piece I’ve been thinking about ever since I read it.

自从我读到这篇文章以来，我一直在思考这篇文章中的一个时刻。

Otto Vargas, a farmhand from Guatemala, asks his new boss, JJ Fricken, whether he has other employees who work his land in Colorado.

来自危地马拉的农场工人奥托·巴尔加斯 (Otto Vargas) 问他的新老板 JJ·弗里肯 (JJ Fricken)，他是否还有其他员工在他位于科罗拉多州的土地上劳作。

Fricken hears the question through an earbud that translates in real time—the men don’t speak the same language, so this is how they communicate.

弗里肯通过实时翻译的耳塞听到了这个问题——男人们说的语言不同，所以这就是他们交流的方式。

Fricken points at himself, then at Vargas.

弗里肯指着自己，然后指着瓦尔加斯。

“Just you and me,” he says.

“只有你和我，”他说。

The scene, evoking both vulnerability and solidarity, is a succinct illustration of the wider story, which details how the two men’s fates came to be intertwined.

这一场景既唤起脆弱又团结，是对更广泛故事的简洁说明，详细说明了这两个人的命运如何交织在一起。

The federal government had promised Fricken a $200,000 grant to hire a worker from Latin America, who would be given an H-2A visa.

联邦政府承诺向弗里肯提供 20 万美元的补助金，用于雇用一名来自拉丁美洲的工人，并获得 H-2A 签证。

“In a place where local, legal help was nearly impossible to keep, the extra worker would give him the freedom to handle more jobs and invest in his own equipment,” the authors explain.

“在一个几乎不可能获得当地法律帮助的地方，额外的工人将使他能够自由地处理更多的工作并投资于自己的设备，”作者解释道。

“It was an opportunity that could transform his family’s future.” Vargas’s future was on the line too: “He’d prayed that he’d get a job interview, and when he did, he prayed he’d do well, and when he did, he prayed he’d receive an offer, and when he did, he prayed the United States would let him come.” Then the Trump administration, despite boasting about its love for American farmers, froze the grant money.

“这是一个可以改变他家人未来的机会。”瓦尔加斯的未来也岌岌可危：“他祈祷自己能得到一份工作面试，当他得到工作面试时，他祈祷自己能做得好；当他得到工作时，他祈祷自己能收到一份工作邀请；当他得到工作时，他祈祷美国能让他来。”随后，特朗普政府尽管吹嘘对美国农民的热爱，却冻结了这笔补助金。

Suddenly, Fricken was in debt, and while Vargas was able to come to Colorado, it wasn’t clear how long his job would last.

突然间，弗里肯负债累累，虽然巴尔加斯得以来到科罗拉多州，但尚不清楚他的工作还能持续多久。

To survive the administration’s cuts and cruelty, a Trump voter and an immigrant needed each other.

为了在政府的削减和残酷中生存，特朗普选民和移民需要彼此。

What a terrible, beautiful thought.

这是多么可怕而又美丽的想法啊。

—SD

—SD

## August

## 八月

## Dying for Gold: Who Killed the Miners of Buffelsfontein?

## 为黄金而死：谁杀死了巴菲尔方丹的矿工？

Liam Taylor | 1843 Magazine | July 24, 2025 | 6,235 words

利亚姆·泰勒 | 1843 杂志 | 2025 年 7 月 24 日 | 6,235 字

At the risk of sounding idiotically obvious, mining is an extractive process—for those doing the mining as well as the resources being mined.

冒着听起来很明显的白痴风险，采矿是一个提取过程——对于那些进行采矿的人和正在开采的资源来说。

Workers can meet their doom suddenly (collapse, fall, explosion), or after many years (lung disease), but to escape unscathed feels almost miraculous.

工人可能会突然遭遇厄运（倒塌、坠落、爆炸），也可能在多年后遭遇厄运（肺部疾病），但毫发无伤地逃脱感觉几乎是奇迹。

No such miracles awaited many of the men who flocked to South Africa’s Buffelsfontein mine after it closed in 2013.

2013 年南非 Buffelsfontein 矿关闭后，许多涌入该矿的人们并没有看到这样的奇迹。

This was mining minus any illusion of safety; any gold left was deeper underground and farther from entry shafts than ever before, requiring “zama-zamas,” or illegal miners, to live hundreds of meters below the surface for months at a time.

这就是采矿，没有任何安全感。剩下的黄金都比以前更深地埋在地下，距离矿井更远，这就要求“扎马扎马斯”（即非法采矿者）在地表以下数百米处生活数月。

And while some zama-zamas came on their own, others arrived under false pretenses or even duress, forced by gangs who controlled the access points.

虽然有些扎马扎马是自己来的，但也有一些扎马扎马是在控制出入点的团伙的胁迫下，以虚假借口甚至胁迫来到的。

What was already difficult and dangerous became even more so last year, when the South African police began blocking both food supplies going into Buffels and the rope crews who helped zama-zamas get out.

去年，当南非警方开始阻止进入巴菲尔斯的食品供应以及帮助扎马扎马人逃脱的绳索人员时，本来就困难和危险的事情变得更加困难和危险。

Many starved.

许多人挨饿了。

Many died.

很多人死了。

Even when people were allowed to leave, they were arrested, with migrants from neighboring countries being held without bail.

即使人们被允许离开，他们也会被逮捕，来自邻国的移民也被关押，不得保释。

Liam Taylor’s feature about the tragedy doesn’t shy away from the horrific conditions that led to illegal mining, nor from the fact that blame lay at multiple feet: police, famo gangs, mine owners, the government, and the long shadows of colonialism and apartheid.

利亚姆·泰勒关于这场悲剧的专题报道并没有回避导致非法采矿的可怕条件，也没有回避责任在多个方面的事实：警察、法莫团伙、矿主、政府以及殖民主义和种族隔离的长期阴影。

It’s always sobering to learn of a human-rights disaster.

了解人权灾难总是令人警醒。

All the more reason that journalism like this—nimble reporting, unaffected prose, and the sole purpose of making sure the world knows—is so crucial.

更重要的是，像这样的新闻——灵活的报道、不做作的散文以及确保全世界都知道的唯一目的——是如此重要。

—PR

——公关

## No Entry

## 禁止进入

Hannah S.

汉娜·S。

Palmer | Earth Island Journal | Summer 2025 | 3,457 words

帕尔默 |地球岛杂志| 2025 年夏季 | 3,457 字

I recently moved inland from the San Francisco Bay Area, and 90-degree-plus days are now the norm.

我最近从旧金山湾区搬到内陆，90 度以上的天气现在已成为常态。

While it’ll take time to get used to the heat, I love how often we’ve gone swimming this summer.

虽然需要时间来适应炎热的天气，但我喜欢今年夏天我们经常去游泳。

For $6 a visit, we can enjoy two massive sparkling pools and a waterslide in a leafy park, supervised by a rotating team of lifeguards.

每次只需花费 6 美元，我们就可以在绿树成荫的公园里享受两个巨大的波光粼粼的游泳池和滑水道，并由救生员轮流监督。

The quick bike ride to this public pool was one reason we bought our house—and it’s made me think a lot about recreational access to water: pools, lakes, beaches, and other places to play and cool off.

骑自行车快速到达这个公共游泳池是我们买房的原因之一，这让我思考了很多关于水上娱乐的问题：游泳池、湖泊、海滩和其他玩耍和消暑的地方。

In this excerpt from her new book, The Pool is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim, Hannah S.

在她的新书《泳池已关闭：种族隔离、夏季和寻找游泳地点》的摘录中，汉娜·S·

Palmer reflects on lost Southern waters, retracing the history of integration in the South and how it led to the abandonment of public pools and other facilities.

帕尔默反思了失去的南方水域，回顾了南方一体化的历史，以及它如何导致公共游泳池和其他设施的废弃。

“When we talk about water, we’re talking about race and class,” she writes.

“当我们谈论水时，我们谈论的是种族和阶级，”她写道。

Wondering where her young sons can learn how to swim, Palmer visits public pools in Atlanta and creeks and lakes in the region: “I drove all over Georgia investigating places where people used to swim that faded from the map after integration: pools filled, lakes drained, beaches sliced into private properties.” When white people rebuilt their own private versions of these places, these spaces were lost to everyone else, particularly Black communities.

帕尔默想知道她年幼的儿子们可以在哪里学习游泳，她参观了亚特兰大的公共游泳池以及该地区的小溪和湖泊：“我开车走遍了佐治亚州，调查了人们曾经游泳的地方，这些地方在整合后从地图上消失了：游泳池被填满，湖泊被排干，海滩被切成私人领地。”当白人重建这些地方的私人版本时，其他人，尤其是黑人社区，就失去了这些空间。

Her reflections on pools ripple outward: What she discovers also applies to parks, schools, libraries, transit.

她对泳池的思考向外蔓延：她的发现也适用于公园、学校、图书馆和交通。

“Life is not so different from what happens when we swim in public,” she writes.

“生活与我们在公共场合游泳时的情况并没有太大不同，”她写道。

This piece is a compelling introduction to her research on water and public space, as well as parenting in a time of environmental crisis.

这篇文章引人入胜地介绍了她对水和公共空间以及环境危机时期养育子女的研究。

—CLR

—CLR

## Fortunate Son

## 幸运的儿子

Tony Ho Tran | Slate | August 13, 2025 | 5,565 words

托尼·霍·陈 |板岩| 2025 年 8 月 13 日 | 5,565 字

In April, as the US marked 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War and a flood of anniversary projects rolled across the journalism plains, Tony Ho Tran was on the Vietnam coast with his parents and brother.

今年 4 月，当美国纪念越南战争结束 50 周年之际，新闻界涌现出大量周年纪念项目，托尼·霍·特兰 (Tony Ho Tran) 与父母和兄弟一起在越南海岸。

This wasn’t a voyage of commemoration, but a long-delayed trip that just happened to coincide with the milestone.

这不是一次纪念性的航行，而是一次拖延已久的旅行，恰逢这一里程碑。

Still, coincidence means little when you return to the place that made you and then blew apart.

尽管如此，当你回到那个创造你然后又崩溃的地方时，巧合就没有什么意义了。

The backdrop of the celebration heightens the usual tensions of a family vacation: Tran’s father goes full Dad Mode by telling everyone he meets in Hanoi that he’d served in the South Vietnamese army; Tran’s mother insists on repeating everything Tran and his brother say to locals, as though their Vietnamese is indecipherable.

庆祝活动的背景加剧了家庭度假时通常的紧张气氛：Tran 的父亲完全表现出爸爸模式，告诉他在河内遇到的每个人他曾在南越军队服役； Tran 的母亲坚持向当地人重复 Tran 和他的兄弟所说的一切，就好像他们的越南语难以辨认一样。

Ultimately, though, the enormity of the occasion snuffs out any internecine squabbles.

但最终，这次事件的严重性消除了任何自相残杀的争吵。

Sharing a beer with his dad on Hạ Long Bay, Tran fills in gaps of the man’s life he’d never even known were there, and the travelogue gives way to something altogether more lyrical, something that Tran has been moving toward all along.

Tran 与他的父亲在下龙湾分享啤酒，填补了这个他从未知道在那里的男人生活的空白，而游记让位于一些更加抒情的东西，这是 Tran 一直在努力的东西。

“Returning, I realize now, was never going to answer any questions or heal us,” he writes.

“我现在意识到，回来永远不会回答任何问题或治愈我们，”他写道。

“Returning gives shape to memory.

“回归使记忆成形。

It allows us to feel the ragged trenches of its scars, map the landscape it creates—and that, in turn, changes us.

它让我们能够感受到它伤痕累累的沟渠，绘制它所创造的景观——而这反过来又改变了我们。

But the past will always be with us: in the stories we tell strangers, the old enemies we welcome back, and the fights we have with those we love.” We are the strangers here, and Tran’s family story—and, particularly, its arresting final image—will stay with you for some time.

但过去将永远伴随着我们：在我们向陌生人讲述的故事中，在我们欢迎的宿敌中，在我们与所爱之人的争斗中。”我们是这里的陌生人，而特兰的家庭故事——尤其是它引人注目的最终形象——将在你脑海中留下一段时间。

—PR

——公关

## Who Killed the Mercy Man?

## 谁杀死了仁慈者？

Eric McHenry | The American Scholar | August 14, 2025 | 3,122 words

埃里克·麦克亨利 |美国学者| 2025 年 8 月 14 日 | 3,122 字

On one hand, the word “folklore” will never lose its ability to make me feel like a bored, fidgety kid.

一方面，“民俗”这个词永远不会失去让我感觉像一个无聊、烦躁的孩子的能力。

It sounds like field trips to one-room schoolhouses.

这听起来像是去一间教室的校舍进行实地考察。

But on the other hand, the word also thrums with enormous power—the same power that makes the blues the most potent artform born on American soil.

但另一方面，这个词也充满了巨大的力量——同样的力量使布鲁斯成为美国土地上诞生的最有力的艺术形式。

The Mississippi Delta isn’t terminus in this case, but origin: The stories and tropes that made their way into the music proliferated through this country’s very sensibility, and through every other mode of expression that it spawned.

在这种情况下，密西西比三角洲并不是终点，而是起源：进入音乐的故事和比喻通过这个国家的敏感性以及它所催生的所有其他表达方式而激增。

And with that much embedded folklore, there’s always another discovery lurking, another path to tread from song to song, another history to uncover.

有了那么多根深蒂固的民间传说，总有另一个发现潜伏着，有另一条从一首歌到另一首歌的路径，有另一段历史有待揭开。

Eric McHenry’s investigation for The American Scholar exercises that sonic sleuthing in journalistic form, following the character of “the Mercy Man” back through the decades all the way to its seeming genesis.

埃里克·麦克亨利（Eric McHenry）为《美国学者》所做的调查以新闻形式进行了声音侦查，追踪“仁慈者”这个角色几十年来一直到其表面上的起源。

It’s a fascinating investigation, whether or not you’re familiar with Alan Lomax’s famed field recordings or even the blues at all.

无论您是否熟悉艾伦·洛马克斯著名的现场录音，甚至熟悉布鲁斯音乐，这都是一项令人着迷的调查。

McHenry dives into the levee camp holler, a plaintive song form born when Black men of the late 19th and early 20th century joined work crews controlled by viciously racist contractors and featuring conditions that seemed nearly indistinguishable from slavery itself.

麦克亨利深入研究了堤坝营地呼喊声，这是一种哀伤的歌曲形式，诞生于 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初的黑人加入由恶毒种族主义承包商控制的工作人员时，其工作条件似乎与奴隶制本身几乎没有区别。

After tracing various renditions of a story in which a contractor known as Mr. Charlie kills an animal welfare officer, McHenry finally finds a 1909 incident that seems to explain everything; from there, he re-expands his search, adding vital texture to the event and sketching a stunning depiction of what inequality really looked like at the time.

在追踪了一个故事的各种版本后，麦克亨利终于找到了一个 1909 年的事件似乎可以解释一切；在这个故事中，一个名叫查理先生的承包商杀死了一名动物福利官员。从那时起，他重新扩大了他的搜索范围，为这一事件增添了重要的质感，并勾勒出一幅令人惊叹的描绘，描绘了当时不平等的真实面貌。

(Spoiler: It looks like a whole lot of Mr. Charlies.) This is a story about American history, but it’s also a story about how we cope with the unspeakable, and about how art can grow from the abject.

（剧透：看起来很像查理斯先生。）这是一个关于美国历史的故事，但它也是一个关于我们如何应对难以言说的事情，以及关于艺术如何从悲惨中成长的故事。

And if you’re anything like me, it’ll remind you that the word “folklore” isn’t so boring after all.

如果你和我一样，它会提醒你“民俗”这个词毕竟没那么无聊。

—PR

——公关

## September

## 九月

## My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek

## 我的妈妈和 DeepSeek 博士

Viola Zhou | Rest of World | September 2, 2025 | 4,472 words

周维奥拉 |世界其他地区 | 2025 年 9 月 2 日 | 4,472 字

Something happened to me last year that I’ve yet to fully unpack.

去年发生在我身上的一件事我至今还没有完全解开。

I was doing sit-ups when, suddenly, the left side of my body was overtaken by tingling.

我正在做仰卧起坐，突然，我的左侧身体一阵刺痛。

A colorful corona bloomed in my left eye.

我的左眼绽放出绚丽多彩的光晕。

I found it hard to speak.

我发现很难说话。

My wife drove me to the emergency room.

我妻子开车送我去急诊室。

There was a cardiology investigation.

有一个心脏病学调查。

Then there were others.

然后还有其他人。

I got a neurologist, and then a gastroenterologist.

我找了一位神经科医生，然后是一位胃肠科医生。

I started getting monthly blood tests.

我开始每月进行血液检查。

Doctors scanned my brain and tested my nerves.

医生扫描了我的大脑并测试了我的神经。

Each test showed me to be in good health.

每次测试都表明我身体状况良好。

And yet symptoms of something have persisted.

然而某些症状仍然存在。

Where I live, family doctors are hard to come by, so I’ve been required to piece together my own care.

在我住的地方，很难找到家庭医生，所以我必须自己拼凑自己的护理。

My wife provides tremendous emotional support, but we’re not all so fortunate.

我的妻子提供了巨大的情感支持，但我们并不都那么幸运。

Where, then, should we look for solace?

那么，我们应该去哪里寻求安慰呢？

Viola Zhou’s mother has lived with chronic kidney problems for two decades.

Viola Zhou 的母亲患有慢性肾脏疾病已有二十年了。

As China’s aging population puts increased pressure on the nation’s healthcare infrastructure, Zhou’s mother has seen her marriage fracture and her daughter leave the country.

随着中国人口老龄化给国家医疗基础设施带来越来越大的压力，周的母亲发现自己的婚姻破裂，女儿也离开了中国。

In her isolation, she has turned to DeepSeek, an AI-powered chatbot, for medical guidance, tasking it with interpreting her medical records, changing her diet, and reducing her immunosuppressant dose.

在孤立无援的情况下，她向人工智能聊天机器人 DeepSeek 寻求医疗指导，要求它解释她的医疗记录、改变她的饮食习惯并减少她的免疫抑制剂剂量。

She warmly thanks the chatbot, and it responds in kind.

她热烈感谢聊天机器人，聊天机器人也做出了同样的回应。

Zhou brings her mother’s chat records to specialists, who point out the errors in Dr. DeepSeek’s responses.

周把她母亲的聊天记录交给专家，专家指出了 DeepSeek 博士的回答中的错误。

And yet Zhou’s mother dismisses the shortcomings.

但周的母亲却对这些缺点不以为然。

“DeepSeek is more humane,” she tells Zhou.

“DeepSeek 更人性化，”她告诉周。

“Doctors are more like machines.” These days, there is no shortage of stories about people in crisis who turn to AI for support, sometimes to perilous ends.

“医生更像是机器。”如今，不乏关于陷入危机的人们向人工智能寻求支持的故事，有时甚至会导致危险的结局。

Zhou’s feature reminds us that such stories are symptoms—of technological limits, isolation, and dysfunctional healthcare systems.

周的专题提醒我们，这些故事是技术限制、孤立和功能失调的医疗系统的症状。

—BF

—BF

## Saving a New Orleans Banksy

## 拯救新奥尔良班克斯

Ivy Knight | Oxford American | August 6, 2025 | 3,266 words

常春藤骑士 |牛津美国 | 2025 年 8 月 6 日 | 3,266 字

Earlier this week, I watched a video of people on a street outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice, moving barriers away from a wall to uncover a Banksy mural.

本周早些时候，我观看了一段视频，视频中人们在伦敦皇家法院外的街道上移开墙上的障碍物，露出班克斯的壁画。

The artwork—depicting a judge using a gavel to strike a protester who holds a blood-spattered sign—is likely a commentary on the recent mass arrests at pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

这件艺术品描绘了一名法官用木槌殴打一名举着血迹斑斑的牌子的抗议者，这很可能是对最近亲巴勒斯坦示威活动中大规模逮捕的评论。

There’s been a lot of online chatter about it: the court’s swift cover-up, the legal implications for altering a listed building, and whether the artwork was genuine, which Banksy confirmed on Instagram.

网上有很多关于此事的讨论：法院的迅速掩盖、改变受保护建筑的法律影响，以及这件艺术品是否是真品，班克斯在 Instagram 上证实了这一点。

This question of authenticity was fresh in my mind after reading Ivy Knight’s Oxford American piece about Boy on a Life Preserver Swing, one of the murals Banksy left behind in New Orleans in the years after Hurricane Katrina.

读完艾维·奈特（Ivy Knight）在牛津大学发表的关于《救生圈秋千上的男孩》的文章后，这个真实性问题在我脑海中浮现，这是班克斯在卡特里娜飓风过后几年留在新奥尔良的壁画之一。

Knight tells a delightful story about an unlikely trio—a dump truck driver, a real estate developer, and an art conservator—who come together to save the piece.

奈特讲述了一个令人愉快的故事，讲述了一个看似不太可能的三人组——一名自卸卡车司机、一名房地产开发商和一名艺术品管理员——他们齐心协力拯救这件作品。

Originally painted on the exterior wall of a biker bar, the mural was defaced with red spray paint, then reduced to rubble when the building was demolished.

这幅壁画最初画在一家自行车酒吧的外墙上，后来被红色喷漆玷污，然后在建筑物被拆除时变成了瓦砾。

Ronnie Fredericks, the truck driver, salvaged the cinderblocks and stored them for years until he stumbled upon an opportunity with Sean Cummings, an art-loving hotelier, to bring the work back to life.

卡车司机罗尼·弗雷德里克斯 (Ronnie Fredericks) 回收了这些煤渣块，并将它们存放了多年，直到他偶然发现了一个机会，与热爱艺术的酒店经营者肖恩·卡明斯 (Sean Cummings) 合作，让这些作品重新焕发活力。

“Joy” is not a word I usually associate with Banksy, but I felt it while reading Knight’s account of the restoration effort, and the science behind the careful process.

我通常不会将“喜悦”这个词与班克斯联系在一起，但在阅读奈特对修复工作的描述以及仔细过程背后的科学知识时，我感受到了它。

(“She tried every removal method in her arsenal,” Knight writes of Elise Grenier, the art conservator challenged with the task, “but she could find no way to remove spray paint from spray paint.”) The trio’s shared curiosity and appreciation for the art is palpable, and as I watched the clip of Londoners removing security barriers to glimpse Banksy’s latest critique, I felt a similar sense of collective awe and empowerment.

（“她尝试了武器库中的所有去除方法，”奈特在谈到接受这项任务的艺术管理员埃莉斯·格雷尼尔（Elise Grenier）时写道，“但她找不到从喷漆中去除喷漆的方法。”）三人对艺术的共同好奇和欣赏是显而易见的，当我观看伦敦人拆除安全屏障以瞥见班克斯最新批评的剪辑时，我感受到了类似的集体敬畏和赋权感。

Together, these interactions with both murals speak to Banksy’s enduring role as a chronicler of human struggle and resilience, and the power of public art, even—or, perhaps, especially—in the face of erasure and suppression.

总之，这些与两幅壁画的互动都体现了班克斯作为人类斗争和复原力的编年史者的持久作用，以及公共艺术的力量，甚至——或者，也许，特别是——面对擦除和压制。

—CLR

—CLR

## Have We Been Measuring Mountains All Wrong?

## 我们测量山脉的方法都错了吗？

Gordy Megroz | National Geographic | September 16, 2025 | 2,432 words*

戈迪·梅格罗兹 |国家地理| 2025 年 9 月 16 日 | 2,432 字*

Nature has left me awestruck time and time again: whether gazing at the Big Sur coastline from a mountaintop monastery, watching the Colorado River carve a sharp U-turn at Dead Horse Point in Utah, or standing where Kīlauea’s lava meets the sea on Hawaii’s Big Island.

大自然一次又一次让我惊叹不已：无论是从山顶修道院凝视大苏尔海岸线，观看科罗拉多河在犹他州死马角急转弯，还是站在夏威夷大岛基拉韦厄熔岩与大海交汇处。

A few years ago, Henry Wismayer’s essay on the science of awe made me wonder what, exactly, stirs such emotion.

几年前，亨利·维斯梅尔（Henry Wismayer）关于敬畏科学的文章让我想知道到底是什么激发了这种情感。

This question reemerged for me as I read Gordy Megroz’s National Geographic profile of Kai Xu, a 23-year-old mountain-loving mathematician who set out to measure this feeling.

当我读到戈迪·梅格罗兹 (Gordy Megroz) 在《国家地理》杂志上对徐凯的简介时，这个问题再次出现在我的脑海中。徐凯是一名 23 岁的热爱山区的数学家，他着手测量这种感觉。

On a visit to California’s Eastern Sierra region, Xu was wowed by the sight of Mount Tom.

在访问加州东部山脉地区时，徐对汤姆山的景色感到惊叹不已。

At 13,652 feet, it’s far shorter than Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak at 29,032 feet, but Xu found Mount Tom’s presence just as extraordinary.

它海拔 13,652 英尺，远低于海拔 29,032 英尺的世界最高峰珠穆朗玛峰，但徐发现汤姆山的存在同样非凡。

Are there attributes other than height that make a mountain great?

除了高度之外，还有其他属性可以让一座山变得伟大吗？

Could awe be quantified?

敬畏可以量化吗？

“He had never laid eyes on the Himalaya or the Andes or any of the world’s largest mountains,” writes Megroz, “but he couldn’t have been more impressed if he had.” Xu invented a new formula to calculate grandeur, factoring in a mountain’s height above its surroundings and the steepness of its rise to produce a single number called “jut”—a measure of how dramatically a peak thrusts into the sky.

梅格罗兹写道：“他从未亲眼见过喜马拉雅山、安第斯山脉或任何世界上最大的山脉，但即使亲眼见过，他也会留下深刻的印象。”徐发明了一种新的计算宏伟程度的公式，将一座山相对于周围环境的高度和其上升的陡度考虑在内，得出一个称为“凸度”的数字——衡量一座山峰插入天空的剧烈程度。

Math lovers will enjoy the story’s nerdy bent, but what stays with me most is Megroz’s ability to balance technical detail with emotional resonance.

数学爱好者会喜欢这个故事的书呆子倾向，但最让我印象深刻的是 Megroz 平衡技术细节与情感共鸣的能力。

He never loses sight of the human story—of a bright, curious young man who sees the world in a new way, and challenges us to do the same.

他从未忽视人类的故事——一个聪明、好奇的年轻人以新的方式看待世界，并挑战我们也这样做。

—CLR

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## Frankenstein’s Sheep

## 弗兰肯斯坦的羊

Alice Hines | New York | September 24, 2025 | 5,189 words

艾丽丝·海因斯 |纽约 | 2025 年 9 月 24 日 | 5,189 字

A couple of stories about cloned animals have made it into our Top 5 in recent memory—specifically, polo ponies and dogs.

一些关于克隆动物的故事已经进入了我们最近记忆中的前五名——特别是马球小马和狗。

But ponies and dogs aren’t exactly rare.

但小马和狗并不罕见。

What happens when someone uses cloning to propagate a species thousands of miles from its natural home?

当有人使用克隆技术在距离自然家园数千英里的地方繁殖一个物种时，会发生什么？

Even weirder, what happens when they use biotech to de-extinct a species—or create one that doesn’t exist?

更奇怪的是，当他们使用生物技术来消除一个物种的灭绝——或者创造一个不存在的物种时，会发生什么？

Enter Montana Mountain King, a Marco Polo argali who was born not in Central Asia, where all the spiral-horned ruminants live, but in (duh) Montana, where rancher Jack Schubarth had implanted cloned argali embryos into his pneumonia-prone sheep.

蒙大拿山之王是一只马可波罗盘羊，它不是出生在所有螺旋角反刍动物都生活的中亚，而是出生在（废话）蒙大拿州，那里的牧场主杰克·舒巴特（Jack Schubarth）将克隆盘羊胚胎植入他的易患肺炎的羊体内。

That Schubarth managed this feat of husbandry was a miracle unto itself; had he done it legally, rather than sending his son to smuggle a strip of argali hide back from Kyrgyzstan, he’d likely be a hero of the conservation movement.

舒巴特能实现这一畜牧壮举本身就是一个奇迹。如果他合法地这样做，而不是派他的儿子从吉尔吉斯斯坦走私一块盘羊皮，他很可能会成为保护运动的英雄。

Instead, he got six months in federal prison.

相反，他在联邦监狱服刑六个月。

The story of Schubarth and MMK is a fascinating one, even before ketamine and rectal probes make an appearance, but it’s also just the beginning.

即使在氯胺酮和直肠探针出现之前，舒巴斯和 MMK 的故事也是一个引人入胜的故事，但这也仅仅是一个开始。

Alice Hines expands the scope from Schubarth’s operation to a thriving, if ethically ambiguous, animal biohacking industry.

艾丽丝·海因斯（Alice Hines）将舒巴斯的经营范围扩大到蓬勃发展（尽管道德上模糊）的动物生物黑客行业。

One company has seemingly revived the dire wolf and has its sight set on the dodo; another wants to breed unicorns and dragons.

一家公司似乎复活了可怕的狼，并将目光投向了渡渡鸟；另一个想要培育独角兽和龙。

(All together, now: What could go wrong?) Throughout, Hines melds story and science with a deft touch, and turns what might otherwise be the tale of a single resourceful rancher into a more troubling look at a future that’s roaring toward us.

（现在，一起来看看：会出现什么问题？）自始至终，海因斯巧妙地将故事和科学融合在一起，将原本可能是一个足智多谋的牧场主的故事变成了一个更加令人不安的未来，描绘了向我们呼啸而来的未来。

The bleating edge of science, indeed.

确实是科学的前沿。

—PR

——公关

## October

## 十月

## Breakdown at the Racetrack

## 赛马场故障

Nicholas Hune-Brown | The Local | September 25, 2025 | 6,315 words

尼古拉斯·休恩·布朗 |本地| 2025 年 9 月 25 日 | 6,315 字

Speight Rasees, a 2-year-old bay filly, suffered a catastrophic breakdown at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, in November 2024, crashing to the turf in an “awful tangle of limbs.” Jason Hoyte, the jockey, broke his shoulder in the accident, but Speight Rasees was not so lucky: She was euthanized by lethal injection.

2024 年 11 月，一匹 2 岁的海湾母马 Speight Rasees 在安大略省多伦多的 Woodbine 赛马场遭受了灾难性的崩溃，“四肢严重缠结”地摔倒在草坪上。骑师贾森·霍伊特(Jason Hoyte)在事故中肩膀骨折，但斯佩特·拉西斯(Speight Rasees)就没那么幸运了：她被注射死刑安乐死。

As Nicholas Hune-Brown reports for The Local, Speight Rasees was one of 10 horses to die after breakdowns at Woodbine in a two-month period in 2024, with several more injured.

正如尼古拉斯·胡恩·布朗 (Nicholas Hune-Brown) 为《当地报》报道的那样，斯佩特·拉西斯 (Speight Rasees) 是 2024 年伍德拜因两个月内因故障而死亡的 10 匹马之一，还有几匹马受伤。

Proponents say horses receive the care and treatment of elite athletes.

支持者说，马匹受到精英运动员的照顾和治疗。

Critics charge that the injuries and deaths are proof that the sport needs to end.

批评者指责说，受伤和死亡证明这项运动需要结束。

Given that the Ontario government props up racing with slot machine revenue because wagering alone is not enough to fund purses, the spate of carnage raises hard questions about precisely what the government is subsidizing.

鉴于安大略省政府通过老虎机收入来支持赛车，因为仅投注不足以为钱包提供资金，一连串的屠杀引发了人们对政府到底在补贴什么的尖锐质疑。

“That puts horse racing in a position that’s uncomfortable to defend,” writes Hune-Brown.

“这让赛马运动陷入了难以防守的境地，”休恩-布朗写道。

“Each day at the track, hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money are paid out to the owners of racehorses, a large percentage of which is government subsidy.” Horses break down and death is inevitable in racing.

“赛马场每天都会向赛马主支付数十万美元的奖金，其中很大一部分是政府补贴。”在赛马比赛中，马匹的衰弱和死亡是不可避免的。

Hune-Brown worked at the track as a teen and, while reporting, even placed a $2 bet on a horse called Little Teddy.

休恩-布朗十几岁时就在赛马场工作，在报道时甚至对一匹名叫“小泰迪”的马下了 2 美元的赌注。

Despite rising to his feet “unconsciously along with the rest of the roaring crowd, a puppet on a string as the horses pounded their way down the homestretch,” Hune-Brown wears no rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.

尽管休恩-布朗“与其他咆哮的人群一起无意识地站了起来，当马匹冲下冲刺跑道时，他就像一个挂在绳子上的木偶”，但他并没有戴上怀旧的玫瑰色眼镜。

This piece is deeply sourced.

这篇文章来源很深。

He spoke to industry workers, horse owners, animal welfare activists, and Michael Copeland, CEO of Woodbine Entertainment Group.

他与行业工人、马主、动物福利活动人士以及伍德拜恩娱乐集团首席执行官迈克尔·科普兰进行了交谈。

Hune-Brown urges us to take the reins, to take a close look at the horse racing industry and ask some questions: Who’s winning and who’s losing, and most importantly, why does Ontario choose to pay the price?

休恩-布朗敦促我们掌控局面，仔细审视赛马行业，并提出一些问题：谁赢了，谁输了，最重要的是，为什么安大略省选择为此付出代价？

—KS

—KS

## The Coloradans Exercising Their Right To Die—and a Doctor Who Helps Them Find Peace

## 行使死亡权利的科罗拉多人——以及帮助他们找到平静的医生

Robert Sanchez | 5280 | October 2, 2025 | 4,765 words

罗伯特·桑切斯 | 5280| 2025 年 10 月 2 日 | 4,765 字

I recently attended the funeral of my uncle, who suffered a severe cervical fracture after a fall.

我最近参加了叔叔的葬礼，他摔倒后颈椎严重骨折。

His health had rapidly deteriorated over the years.

多年来，他的健康状况迅速恶化。

After being admitted to the hospital, he was awake and alert, but by the next morning, he was gone.

入院后，他神智清醒，但到了第二天早上，他就去世了。

On the day of his burial, I was struck by the orderliness of the military ceremony: the precise folding of the American flag handed to his wife; the Army vets in silent procession, lifting and firing their rifles in unison; the swift, almost ritualistic way a bulldozer covered his casket and smoothed the earth.

在他下葬的那天，军事仪式的井然有序令我震惊：美国国旗被精确地折好交给他的妻子；陆军老兵默默地列队，齐声举起步枪并开火。推土机迅速地、近乎仪式般地盖住了他的棺材并平整了地面。

This planned, meditative efficiency was a stark contrast to the suddenness of his death.

这种有计划、冥想的效率与他的突然死亡形成了鲜明的对比。

It left me thinking about how we die, and what—if anything—we can control when our time comes.

这让我思考我们是如何死去的，以及当我们的生命到来时我们可以控制什么——如果有的话。

Nearly 10 years ago, Colorado voters passed the End of Life Options Act, legalizing medical aid in dying for terminally ill adults who meet specific criteria.

近十年前，科罗拉多州选民通过了《生命终结选择法案》，使对符合特定标准的绝症成年人的死亡医疗援助合法化。

Since then, about 1,100 people in the state have chosen this path.

从那时起，该州约有1100人选择了这条道路。

For 5280, Robert Sanchez spent the summer learning about this option through Denver Health’s Medical Aid in Dying clinic.

对于 5280，罗伯特·桑切斯 (Robert Sanchez) 整个夏天都通过丹佛健康中心的临终医疗援助诊所了解了这一选项。

Who is eligible?

谁有资格？

(A person of “sound mind” with six months or less to live.) Where can an “ingestion” take place?

（一个“心智健全”的人，还能活六个月或更短的时间。）“​​摄入”可以在哪里发生？

(Either a family’s home or the home of someone volunteering their property, since hospitals and hospices don’t permit the practice.) Sanchez was invited to witness families in their most intimate and vulnerable moments.

（要么是一个家庭的家，要么是某人自愿提供财产的家，因为医院和临终关怀医院不允许这种做法。）桑切斯被邀请见证家庭最亲密和最脆弱的时刻。

There’s Alan, a man with aggressive lung cancer, who posed for a final family photo before taking his last drink.

艾伦是一名患有侵袭性肺癌的男子，他在喝完最后一杯酒之前拍了最后一张全家福。

And there’s Astrid, a woman with ALS who requested to expedite the process to end her suffering.

阿斯特丽德 (Astrid) 是一名患有肌萎缩侧索硬化症 (ALS) 的女性，她请求加快进程以结束她的痛苦。

Sanchez captures tough scenes, including a moment when Astrid uses all her strength to reach for the doctor’s syringe to initiate the procedure (a patient must administer the dose themself).

桑切斯捕捉到了艰难的场景，包括阿斯特丽德用尽全力去拿医生的注射器以启动手术的那一刻（患者必须自己注射剂量）。

Sanchez writes with compassion and curiosity, observing without intrusion, and letting the moments unravel.

桑切斯怀着同情心和好奇心写作，在不打扰的情况下观察，让瞬间解开。

Through these stories, he invites us to wrestle with this question: “How much control should we have over the terms of our own deaths?” The clinic’s director, a former ER doctor, tells him that “[a]ll stories need to have an ending, and we want our stories to matter.” I keep thinking about my uncle—and how, if given the chance, he would have shaped his own ending.

通过这些故事，他邀请我们思考这个问题：“我们对自己的死亡条件应该有多大的控制权？”该诊所的主任是一名前急诊室医生，他告诉他“所有的故事都需要有一个结局，我们希望我们的故事有意义。”我一直在想我的叔叔——如果有机会的话，他会如何塑造自己的结局。

—CLR

—CLR

## He Supported the US War in Afghanistan.

## 他支持美国在阿富汗的战争。

Now He May Be Deported to the Taliban.

现在他可能会被驱逐到塔利班。

John Woodrow Cox | The Washington Post | October 14, 2025 | 4,630 words

约翰·伍德罗·考克斯 | 约翰·伍德罗·考克斯华盛顿邮报 | 2025 年 10 月 14 日 | 4,630 字

It’s hard to watch videos of ICE agents snatching people in broad daylight across the US.

很难在美国各地观看 ICE 特工在光天化日之下抓人的视频。

They surface again and again in all of my feeds, each one blurring into the next.

它们在我的所有提要中一次又一次地出现，每一个都模糊到下一个。

Most of the time, I can’t finish them.

大多数时候，我无法完成它们。

It’s easier to look away.

更容易把目光移开。

Which is exactly why we need more pieces like this one: a thoughtful, deeply reported narrative that makes immigration and mass deportation feel less abstract.

这正是我们需要更多这样的作品的原因：一种深思熟虑、深入报道的叙述，让移民和大规模驱逐不再那么抽象。

For The Washington Post, John Woodrow Cox writes about “H,” an Afghan man who supported the US during the war in Afghanistan.

约翰·伍德罗·考克斯 (John Woodrow Cox) 为《华盛顿邮报》撰写了有关“H”的文章，他是一位在阿富汗战争期间支持美国的阿富汗男子。

After arriving here through the humanitarian parole program, he applied for asylum and built a life—and raised two US-born kids—with his wife.

通过人道主义假释计划来到这里后，他申请了庇护并与妻子开始了自己的生活，并抚养了两个在美国出生的孩子。

But the Trump administration has since terminated the protections that allow Afghans like H to stay, with one Homeland Security staffer calling him an “unvetted alien from a high threat country.” H is anything but.

但特朗普政府此后终止了对像 H 这样的阿富汗人留下来的保护，一名国土安全部工作人员称他是“来自高威胁国家的未经审查的外国人”。 H 绝对不是。

He and his wife are law-abiding, hardworking, and educated: He took accounting classes, became a bookkeeper, and immersed himself in American culture, singing “Wheels on the Bus” in English to his kids and learning the language with the help of subtitles on Lost episodes.

他和他的妻子都是守法、勤奋、受过良好教育的人：他参加了会计课程，成为一名簿记员，并沉浸在美国文化中，用英语给孩子们唱《巴士上的轮子》，并借助《迷失》剧集的字幕学习英语。

“He celebrated Thanksgiving with new friends, adopted the Chicago Bears, savored the buffet at Golden Corral,” writes Cox.

“他和新朋友一起庆祝感恩节，收养了芝加哥熊队，品尝了 Golden Corral 的自助餐，”考克斯写道。

“He imagined taking the naturalization oath and raising his family in the suburbs.

“他想象着宣誓入籍并在郊区抚养家人。

He believed in Donald Trump.” Small yet vivid details like these make H’s journey impossible to ignore.

他相信唐纳德·特朗普。”诸如此类的小而生动的细节让 H 的旅程不容忽视。

Homeland Security claims that sending Afghans like H back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan would pose no danger, but H believes that deportation means death for him and his family.

国土安全部声称，将像 H 这样的阿富汗人送回塔利班控制的阿富汗不会构成任何危险，但 H 认为，驱逐出境对他和他的家人来说意味着死亡。

For safety reasons, Cox withholds identifying details, but through interviews with H, his family, and their network of friends and colleagues, he builds a portrait of a man defined by hard work and faith—someone who still believes in the American dream, even as America turns him away.

出于安全原因，考克斯隐瞒了身份细节，但通过对 H、他的家人以及他们的朋友和同事网络的采访，他描绘了一个以努力工作和信仰为特征的男人的肖像——一个仍然相信美国梦的人，即使美国将他拒之门外。

—CLR

—CLR

## Hidden in Plain Sight

## 隐藏在众目睽睽之下

Carolyn Ariella Sofia | Aeon | October 20, 2025 | 4,013 words

卡罗琳·阿里埃拉·索菲亚 |永旺 | 2025 年 10 月 20 日 | 4,013 字

A chance meeting in a bookstore changed Carolyn Ariella Sofia’s life.

一次在书店的偶遇改变了卡罗琳·阿里埃拉·索菲亚的生活。

The encounter was with Jerzy Kosiński, the Jewish Polish-American author of The Painted Bird, a harrowing novel about a boy wandering through Eastern European villages during the Second World War.

这次遭遇是与耶日·科辛斯基（Jerzy Kosiński）发生的，他是犹太裔波兰裔美国作家，着有《被涂污的鸟》（The Painted Bird），这是一本悲惨的小说，讲述了一个男孩在第二次世界大战期间在东欧村庄里流浪的故事。

Sofia describes the book with terrified awe: “a desperate note sent in a glass bottle that broke in my hands and made me bleed.” The two eventually go to dinner, where Sofia probes and unsettles Kosiński with her theory that one of his writing strategies is to “hide wartime details in female characters.” He resists exposure.

索菲亚带着惊恐的敬畏描述了这本书：“一封装在玻璃瓶里的绝望的纸条在我手中破裂，让我流血。”两人最终共进晚餐，索菲亚提出了科辛斯基的理论，即科辛斯基的写作策略之一是“隐藏女性角色的战时细节”，这让她感到不安。他抗拒暴露。

Hiding had been deeply engraved into his psyche during childhood, when he survived the Holocaust by living with a Christian family, and Sofia cannot quite reach him.

童年时期，躲藏已深深地铭刻在他的心灵中，当时他与一个基督教家庭住在一起，从大屠杀中幸存下来，而索菲亚无法完全接触到他。

Their interactions remain taut and uneasy, almost menacing.

他们的互动仍然紧张而不安，几乎具有威胁性。

He reveals little, even as he continues to draw her into a psychological game of cat and mouse.

尽管他继续把她拉进一场猫捉老鼠的心理游戏，但他却很少透露。

Beyond Kosiński, Sofia examines how the writers Georges Perec and Sarah Kofman divulge the fractured identities of their own war-torn childhoods, when they, too, suffocated their true selves to save their lives.

除了科辛斯基之外，索菲亚还探讨了作家乔治·佩雷克和莎拉·科夫曼如何揭露他们饱受战争蹂躏的童年的支离破碎的身份，当时他们也为了拯救自己的生命而窒息了真实的自我。

This is no cozy read, but a piercing insight into how the inner turmoil of Holocaust survivors has painfully, gradually, turned into the raw material of their art.

这不是一本舒适的读物，而是对大屠杀幸存者内心的混乱如何痛苦地、逐渐地变成他们艺术的原材料的敏锐洞察。

Sofia’s deft blend of psychology and literary analysis left me reeling at the complexity of survival, memory, and self-invention.

索菲亚巧妙地将心理学和文学分析结合在一起，让我对生存、记忆和自我创造的复杂性感到震惊。

—CW

—CW

## Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?

## 为什么没有人相信媒体？

Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, and Max Tani | Harper’s Magazine | October 22, 2025 | 6,693 words

杰拉尼·科布、泰勒·洛伦兹、杰克·谢弗和马克斯·塔尼 |哈珀杂志 | 2025 年 10 月 22 日 | 6,693 字

There’s a video production company in Chicago called Mainstream Media, whose mission is to “help companies nationwide connect to their community with crisp and clear live video.” Mainstream Media is not a news organization, a point its founders have tried to make clear over the years, even adding a disclaimer to their website that reads, “We are not the actual ‘mainstream media.’” And yet, every so often—following bad-faith partisan attacks, for instance—the company receives messages from people angry at swaths of the American press.

芝加哥有一家名为 Mainstream Media 的视频制作公司，其使命是“帮助全国各地的公司通过清晰的直播视频与社区建立联系”。主流媒体不是新闻机构，多年来其创始人一直试图澄清这一点，甚至在他们的网站上添加了免责声明，上面写着：“我们不是真正的‘主流媒体’。”然而，时不时地——例如在恶意的党派攻击之后——该公司收到了人们对美国媒体感到愤怒的信息。

Misguided though they might be, these critics aren’t alone: Trust in the mass media is at its lowest point in half a century, according to one popular poll.

尽管这些批评者可能被误导了，但他们并不孤单：根据一项民意调查，对大众媒体的信任处于半个世纪以来的最低点。

And yet the mere existence of those annual polls reveals something about our perennial anxiety over the press.

然而，这些年度民意调查的存在本身就揭示了我们长期以来对媒体的焦虑。

“Americans have never trusted large national institutions,” Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, remarks in this lively Harper’s forum with press critic Jack Shafer and reporters Max Tani and Taylor Lorenz.

“美国人从来不信任大型国家机构，”哥伦比亚新​​闻学院院长杰拉尼·科布 (Jelani Cobb) 在与新闻评论家杰克·谢弗 (Jack Shafer) 以及记者马克斯·塔尼 (Max Tani) 和泰勒·洛伦茨 (Taylor Lorenz) 共同举办的热闹的哈珀论坛上说道。

“In the nineteenth century, we didn’t trust the railroad monopolies; in the early twentieth century, we didn’t trust the newly corporatized banks.

“在十九世纪，我们不信任铁路垄断；在二十世纪初，我们不信任新成立的公司化银行。

Today, when people think of a large, faceless, national institution, it’s more often than not the news media.” Is our loss in trust driven primarily by failures in coverage of Gaza or COVID-19, or about our collective distance from remote institutions that fail to reflect the communities they serve?

如今，当人们想到一个大型的、不知名的国家机构时，通常会想到新闻媒体。”我们失去信任的主要原因是对加沙或 COVID-19 的报道失败，还是我们与无法反映其所服务社区的偏远机构的集体距离？

The four journalists here differ in how they apportion responsibility, as well as how they interpret threats against press freedom in the US and what AI will do to entry-level journalism positions.

这里的四位记者的不同之处在于他们如何分配责任，以及他们如何解释对美国新闻自由的威胁以及人工智能将对初级新闻职位产生的影响。

They also complicate each other’s arguments productively, reminding each other, and us, that the mission of the media is, per Tani, to “meet people where they are.” You mean connect to our communities?

他们还有效地使彼此的论点复杂化，提醒彼此和我们，按照塔尼的说法，媒体的使命是“在人们所在的地方认识他们”。您的意思是连接到我们的社区？

Looks like Mainstream Media has the right idea.

看来主流媒体的想法是正确的。

—BF

—BF

## November

## 十一月

## Waymo Money, Waymo Problems

## Waymo Money、Waymo 问题

Joanne McNeil | New York Review of Architecture | October 1, 2025 | 2,866 words

乔安妮·麦克尼尔 |纽约建筑评论| 2025 年 10 月 1 日 | 2,866 字

I would be remiss if I didn’t start this blurb by tipping my hat to the editor who wrote this headline.

如果我在这篇简介中没有向写下这个标题的编辑致敬，那就是我的失职了。

I suspect many readers have already clicked on the link to the story purely because of this pun.

我怀疑许多读者已经纯粹因为这个双关语而点击了这个故事的链接。

Well done, whoever you are.

干得好，无论你是谁。

Now to the meat of the thing: A self-driving Waymo taxi recently killed a bodega cat in San Francisco.

现在进入正题：一辆自动驾驶 Waymo 出租车最近在旧金山杀死了一只杂货店猫。

In my book, that alone is reason enough to get the machines off the street.

在我的书中，仅此一点就足以让机器远离街道。

But I’m a grouch, so don’t listen to me—listen to Joanne McNeil.

但我是一个爱发牢骚的人，所以别听我的——听乔安妮·麦克尼尔的。

A resident of the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, McNeil considers Waymo and other robots now populating the city’s corridors in the context of the wider techno-capitalist push to force certain workers out of the US economy.

麦克尼尔是洛杉矶回声公园附近的居民，他认为 Waymo 和其他机器人现在充斥着城市的走廊，是在更广泛的技术资本主义推动下迫使某些工人退出美国经济的背景下。

McNeil follows a pink Coco food delivery robot to a ghost kitchen, where “twenty-six restaurants that exist only on DoorDash and Grubhub cook food for takeout customers” and “delivery bags and boxes are waiting .

麦克尼尔跟随粉色 Coco 送餐机器人来到了一个幽灵厨房，那里“有 26 家仅在 DoorDash 和 Grubhub 上存在的餐厅为外卖顾客做饭”，“送货袋和盒子正在等待……”。

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in lockers.” The endgame of facilities like this, McNeil posits, is to eliminate delivery drivers (and mom-and-pop restaurants, too).

在储物柜里。”麦克尼尔认为，此类设施的最终目的是消除送货司机（以及夫妻店）。

“It’s a setup primed for robots,” she writes, that “further warp[s] the coronavirus class divide: With machines (however remotely assisted) where essential workers used to be, those who WFH are ever more shielded from strangers beneath their tax bracket.” McNeil ties the robots in California’s streets to what’s happening in the state’s fields.

“这是一个为机器人准备的设置，”她写道，“进一步扭曲了冠状病毒的阶级鸿沟：在过去重要工作人员所在的地方有了机器（无论远程协助），那些在家办公的人可以更好地免受其税级下的陌生人的侵害。”麦克尼尔将加州街道上的机器人与该州田间发生的事情联系起来。

She speaks to a Lyft driver originally from Salinas, who explains that agricultural companies in the Central Valley “haven’t been that vocal coming out against the ICE raids because they’re assuming that they’ll be able to automate farmwork.” In other words, they’ve decided it isn’t worth protecting the rights and dignity of people they won’t need to make money in the long term.

她与一位来自萨利纳斯的 Lyft 司机交谈，后者解释说，中央山谷的农业公司“并没有公开反对 ICE 的突击检查，因为他们认为自己能够实现农场工作的自动化。”换句话说，他们认为不值得保护那些长期不需要他们赚钱的人的权利和尊严。

In fewer words, they’re greedy and soulless.

简而言之，他们贪婪且没有灵魂。

McNeil’s story is an essential tour of several overlapping landscapes—physical, technological, and political—shaped by the robber barons of the 21st century.

麦克尼尔的故事是对由 21 世纪强盗大亨塑造的几个重叠景观（自然、技术和政治）的重要游览。

—SD

—SD

## When the Bears Come Back

## 当熊回来时

Anya Groner | Southlands | November 11, 2025 | 3,993 words

安雅·格罗纳 |南国 | 2025 年 11 月 11 日 | 3,993 字

It happens all the time: I’ll look up randomly while working, only to witness a black bear appear out of the bush and amble across our property.

这种事经常发生：我工作时会随意抬头，却看到一只黑熊从灌木丛中出现，漫步穿过我们的房子。

I can’t help but pause after these sightings.

看到这些景象后我忍不住停下来。

For me, it’s a moment of reverence for that wild being, and a reminder to be vigilant in the forest we share, to be sure they get the wide berth they deserve.

对我来说，这是对野生动物的崇敬时刻，也提醒我们在我们共同的森林中保持警惕，确保它们得到应有的尊重。

Wendy Cowan tried to avoid conflict with a bear in the woods of Lunenburg County, Virginia, but unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned.

温迪·考恩（Wendy Cowan）试图避免与弗吉尼亚州卢嫩堡县树林中的一只熊发生冲突，但不幸的是，事情并没有按计划进行。

In this piece for Southlands (a new publication!), Anya Groner recounts Cowan’s harrowing bear attack and reckons with the increasing encounters between bears and humans across the United States.

在这篇为《南国》（新出版物！）撰写的文章中，安雅·格罗纳（Anya Groner）讲述了考恩（Cowan）令人痛心的熊袭击事件，并考虑到美国各地熊与人类之间的接触越来越多。

This braided essay is a study in building tension; I sat motionless reading it, engrossed in Cowan’s encounter and an aftermath that was bloody in more ways than one.

这篇编织文章是一篇关于营造张力的研究；我一动不动地坐着读这本书，全神贯注于考恩的遭遇和一场血腥的后果。

“For a moment, they were the same height, face to face and swaying like a dancing couple,” writes Groner.

“有那么一刻，他们身高一样，面对面，摇摆得像一对跳舞的情侣，”格罗纳写道。

“Then the bear yawned, and Wendy knew she was in trouble.” Groner follows Cowan around Richmond’s East End, observing the survivor as she shares her story and photographic evidence with the curious.

“然后熊打了个哈欠，温迪知道她有麻烦了。”格罗纳跟随考恩在里士满东区闲逛，观察这位幸存者与好奇的人分享她的故事和照片证据。

The scene work here brings depth to Cowan as a main character, shading in a painful and lengthy recovery period while highlighting the attack’s lasting—and surprisingly positive—emotional outcomes.

这里的场景工作给考恩这个主角带来了深度，在痛苦而漫长的恢复期中留下了阴影，同时强调了这次袭击所带来的持久的、令人惊讶的积极的情感结果。

Cowan’s made deep and profound connections with those who take a moment to listen to her story and to share their own trauma.

考恩与那些花时间聆听她的故事并分享自己创伤的人们建立了深厚的联系。

She’s found a community of survivors, and for this, she’s grateful to the bear.

她找到了一个幸存者社区，为此，她感谢这只熊。

This piece, while at times a terrifying read, is a stark and beautiful reminder of what happens when we refuse to be defined by the things we cannot control.

这篇文章虽然有时读起来令人恐惧，但却鲜明而美丽地提醒我们，当我们拒绝被我们无法控制的事物所定义时，会发生什么。

—KS

—KS

## Heavy Metal is Healing Teens on the Blackfeet Nation

## 重金属正在治愈黑脚国家的青少年

B.

B.

‘Toastie’ Oaster | High Country News | November 7, 2025 | 6,282 words

“Toastie”烤面包机|高地国家新闻| 2025 年 11 月 7 日 | 6,282 字

This piece deals with suicide.

这篇文章涉及自杀。

If you’re having thoughts of self-harm, please call or text 988 in the US, or chat online at 988lifeline.org, for a free, confidential conversation with a trained crisis counselor.

如果您有自残的想法，请在美国致电或发短信 988，或通过 988lifeline.org 在线聊天，与经过培训的危机顾问进行免费、保密的对话。

Journalist B.

记者B.

‘Toastie’ Oaster opens their High Country News piece with the words of young Indigenous metalheads on the Blackfeet Nation who have known people who have committed suicide: “Suicide has impacted my old friend group quite a bit.” “I’ve lost friends.

“Toastie” Oaster 在他们的高地新闻文章中以黑脚民族的年轻土著金属迷的话开头，他们认识自杀者：“自杀对我的老朋友群体影响很大。” “我失去了朋友。

I’ve lost family.” “My older brother.” “My sister’s youngest.” Their sobering remarks and the endless pain they hold stopped me in my tracks.

我失去了家人。” “我的哥哥。” “我妹妹最小的。”他们发人深省的言论和他们带来的无尽痛苦让我停下了脚步。

Some are still teens.

有些人还是青少年。

All have found belonging in heavy metal music, release in the fast and the loud.

所有人都在重金属音乐中找到了归属，在快速而响亮的释放中。

In vivid prose, Oaster reports on the finale of an alternative high school course that dives deep into heavy music and its history, politics, and values.

奥斯特用生动的散文报道了另类高中课程的结局，该课程深入探讨了重音乐及其历史、政治和价值观。

As students discuss the art form, they identify subgenres of metal, deconstruct songs, and respond to what moves them.

当学生讨论这种艺术形式时，他们会识别金属的子流派，解构歌曲，并对感动他们的事物做出反应。

Some get inspired to start bands.

有些人受到启发创办乐队。

Oaster also covers Fire in the Mountains, a “black metal Coachella” that took place on the Blackfeet Nation over three days in July 2025.

Oaster 还涵盖了 Fire in the Mountains，这是 2025 年 7 月在 Blackfeet Nation 举行的为期三天的“黑金属科切拉音乐节”。

Metal can seem violent and harsh to the uninitiated, but that easy assessment overlooks the community behind the music, a safe space where people can work through their troubles in a constructive way.

对于外行来说，金属似乎是暴力和刺耳的，但这种简单的评估忽视了音乐背后的社区，一个安全的空间，人们可以在其中以建设性的方式解决他们的麻烦。

“But something deeper draws metalheads together, perhaps a willingness to inquire on levels the establishment forbids,” writes Oaster.

“但更深层次的东西将金属迷聚集在一起，也许是愿意询问当权者所禁止的水平，”奥斯特写道。

“What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness—or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair.

“它与其他类型的最明显区别在于，它深深植根于愤怒和悲伤——或者它们的共同祖先：恐惧、匮乏、孤立和绝望。

Metal, one fan told me, is ‘a strange road to joy.’” Above all, this moving, life-affirming piece reminds us that when the going gets tough, the tough start headbanging.

一位粉丝告诉我，金属是‘一条通往快乐的奇怪之路。’”最重要的是，这首动人的、肯定生命的作品提醒我们，当事情变得艰难时，艰难的开始就会让人头疼。

—KS

—KS

## December

## 十二月

## Surrealism Against Fascism

## 超现实主义反对法西斯主义

Naomi Klein | Equator | November 26, 2025 | 7,346 words

娜奥米·克莱因 |赤道| 2025 年 11 月 26 日 | 7,346 字

Why does this moment in time feel so uniquely awful?

为什么这一刻感觉如此独特可怕？

Naomi Klein’s expansive essay about art, philosophy, and political resistance addresses this nagging question, one that I’ve personally struggled to answer through a burst of fury every time I hear someone say, “This too shall pass.” Certainly, the concentration of horrors is part of it.

娜奥米·克莱因（Naomi Klein）关于艺术、哲学和政治抵抗的广泛文章解决了这个令人烦恼的问题，每当我听到有人说“这也会过去”时，我个人都会在一阵愤怒中努力回答这个问题。当然，恐怖的集中也是其中的一部分。

We’re confronted with—and in some cases complicit in—fascism, genocide, and climatological destruction, to name just a few of the catastrophes at hand.

我们面临着——在某些情况下还参与了——法西斯主义、种族灭绝和气候破坏，仅举几例眼前的灾难。

And yes, recency bias is a factor.

是的，近期偏差是一个因素。

What’s happening now is raw, an open wound.

现在发生的事情是原始的、开放性的伤口。

But Klein articulates another crucial aspect.

但克莱因阐明了另一个关键方面。

“[Time] doesn’t merely circle,” she writes, “it spirals, returning to places that feel familiar but are fundamentally different, having accumulated all the weight of what came before.” Walter Benjamin, whom Klein references throughout her piece, put it this way: “[History is] one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage.” In other words, today feels worse than the past because of the past.

“[时间]不只是循环，”她写道，“它呈螺旋状，回到那些感觉熟悉但又根本不同的地方，积累了之前发生的一切的重量。”克莱因在她的文章中提到了沃尔特·本雅明，他这样说：“（历史）是一场灾难，残骸不断堆积。”换句话说，因为过去，今天的感觉比过去更糟糕。

What should be the gifts of history have become painful burdens.

本应是历史的礼物的东西却变成了痛苦的负担。

Hard-won wisdom and knowledge are willfully ignored.

来之不易的智慧和知识被故意忽视。

Collective pledges to do and be better (“never again”) are perverted to justify new atrocities.

“做得更好”（“不再发生”）的集体承诺被歪曲为新的暴行的合理性。

How, then, to survive the ever-worsening of the world, the compounding of wreckage?

那么，如何在世界日益恶化、残骸不断堆积的情况下生存下来呢？

“The interesting thing about spirals,” Klein notes, “is that if they switch directions, they don’t tighten—they broaden, opening like sunflowers, like seashells, like galaxies.” Reversing course means finding shared purpose not just in rejecting cruelty and destruction but in creating their antitheses.

“螺旋的有趣之处在于，”克莱因指出，“如果它们改变方向，它们不会收紧——它们会像向日葵、贝壳、星系一样变宽、张开。”扭转路线意味着找到共同的目标，不仅是拒绝残酷和破坏，而且是创造它们的对立面。

Among other people and movements, Klein directs readers to the Surrealists as an example of creative resistance: “We still have much to learn from their efforts—from their endless manifestos, their raucous debates, their sense of play, their solidarities, and their determination to pool their collective powers to meet the scale of their moment in history.” —SD

在其他人物和运动中，克莱因引导读者以超现实主义者作为创造性抵抗的例子：“我们仍然有很多东西要从他们的努力中学习——从他们无休止的宣言、他们喧闹的辩论、他们的游戏意识、他们的团结，以及他们集中集体力量来满足他们历史时刻的规模的决心。” —SD

## Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?

## 快乐蜂能在自己的游戏中击败美国快餐吗？

Yasmin Tayag | The Atlantic | December 9, 2025 | 2,832 words

亚斯明·塔亚格 |大西洋 | 2025 年 12 月 9 日 | 2,832 字

I recently spoke at the funeral of an aunt—my Tita—who was the connective tissue of our extended family.

最近，我在一位阿姨（我的蒂塔）的葬礼上发表了讲话，她是我们大家庭的结缔组织。

Across the eulogies, a few themes repeated: the joy she sparked at gatherings, her generosity, and our shared love of food, especially the delicious, often fried dishes she helped prepare.

在悼词中，重复了一些主题：她在聚会中激发的欢乐、她的慷慨以及我们对食物的共同热爱，尤其是她帮助准备的美味、经常油炸的菜肴。

Reading Yasmin Tayag’s Atlantic story about Jollibee felt fitting this week.

本周阅读亚斯敏·塔亚格 (Yasmin Tayag) 在大西洋月刊上关于快乐蜂的故事感觉很合适。

Tayag traces the global rise of the Filipino fast-food chain, especially its expansion in the US, and shows how Filipino food—salty, sweet, sour, and rich with taste and feeling—is both deeply rooted in and constantly transformed by outside influences.

Tayag 追溯了菲律宾快餐连锁店在全球的崛起，特别是其在美国的扩张，并展示了菲律宾食品——咸、甜、酸、丰富的味道和感觉——是如何深深植根于外部影响并不断被外部影响所改变的。

This tension feels familiar to me.

这种紧张感让我感觉很熟悉。

I remember when the first Jollibee in North America opened in 1998 in Daly City, California, where I was born.

我记得 1998 年北美第一家快乐蜂在我出生的加利福尼亚州戴利城开业。

I grew up on comfort dishes—my aunt’s extra-crispy fried chicken, my uncle’s pork-rib sinigang, my mom’s adobo—but today my family looks very different from the one I grew up in.

我是吃着舒适的菜肴长大的——我姨妈的脆皮炸鸡、我叔叔的猪肋排、我妈妈的阿斗波——但今天我的家庭看起来与我长大的家庭截然不同。

It’s expanded and blended: Chinese and British, Indian and Mexican, with new recipes added to the pot (my husband’s quinoa-based arroz caldo comes to mind).

它经过扩展和混合：中国和英国、印度和墨西哥，并添加了新的食谱（我丈夫的藜麦阿罗兹卡尔多浮现在脑海中）。

Like Filipino food itself, we’ve evolved.

就像菲律宾食物本身一样，我们也在进化。

Jollibee now has more than 1,800 locations worldwide, with its parent company operating 10,000 stores across 19 Filipino and international brands.

Jollibee 目前在全球拥有 1,800 多个门店，其母公司经营 10,000 家商店，涵盖 19 个菲律宾和国际品牌。

(I had no idea it owned The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Smashburger.) While Jollibee’s flavors are designed “for the mainstream,” and not everything on the menu is what I personally crave, I still admire its mission to export Filipino warmth and hospitality along with its food.

（我不知道它拥有 The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf 和 Smashburger。）虽然 Jollibee 的口味是“为主流”设计的，并不是菜单上的所有东西都是我个人所渴望的，但我仍然钦佩它的使命，即在食物的同时输出菲律宾人的热情和好客。

Tayag writes about all of this with care, curiosity, and an obvious affection for what food can carry beyond taste.

塔亚格带着细心、好奇心和对食物超越味道的明显热爱来写下这一切。

And if you’re unsure about Filipino spaghetti—unexpectedly sweet for some—try the version at Tipunan in the East Bay, and then thank me later.

如果您对菲律宾意大利面（对某些人来说出乎意料的甜）不确定，可以尝试一下东湾蒂普南（Tipunan）的版本，然后再感谢我。

—CLR

—CLR

## The Strange Fate of Flight 2069

## 2069 航班的奇怪命运

Kate Mossman | The New Statesman | December 11, 2025 | 6,764 words

凯特·莫斯曼 |新政治家 | 2025 年 12 月 11 日 | 6,764 字

By the end of the first paragraph of this New Statesman piece, reporter Kate Mossman had my full attention.

在这篇《新政治家》文章的第一段结束时，记者凯特·莫斯曼吸引了我的全部注意力。

“The majority of those on Flight 2069 were asleep when Paul Mukonyi folded up his belongings at around 4am UK time, headed up the stairs into the toilet at the front of the plane, then came out and quietly let himself into the cockpit,” she writes.

“英国时间凌晨 4 点左右，当保罗·穆科尼 (Paul Mukonyi) 折叠好自己的行李，走上楼梯进入飞机前部的卫生间，然后出来并悄悄进入驾驶舱时，2069 航班上的大多数人都在睡觉，”她写道。

For the next two minutes and 38 seconds, terror and chaos ensued as Mukonyi fought the copilot to control the plane and crash it in an apparent suicide attempt, one which could have taken the lives of 400 other passengers with him.

在接下来的 2 分 38 秒内，恐怖和混乱接踵而至，穆科尼与副驾驶奋力控制飞机，并以明显的自杀企图将飞机撞毁，这可能夺走其他 400 名乘客的生命。

It took four men to subdue the attacker, but this is only the beginning of the story.

四名男子联手制服了袭击者，但这只是故事的开始。

(I’m reminded of “The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy,” Michael Paterniti’s Esquire feature about Swissair 111, which disintegrated upon impact with the sea off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998, with 229 souls aboard.) Mossman’s central challenge is considerable: How do you tell the story of the disaster that did not happen?

（我想起了迈克尔·帕特尼蒂（Michael Paterniti）在《时尚先生》杂志上撰写的关于瑞航 111 的专题文章《一十一重型飞机的漫长坠落》，这架飞机于 1998 年在新斯科舍省海岸附近与大海相撞而解体，机上有 229 人。）莫斯曼的核心挑战相当大：如何讲述没有发生的灾难的故事？

How do you maintain momentum in a piece where a safe outcome gets revealed early on?

您如何在早期揭示安全结果的作品中保持动力？

What her piece shares with Paterniti’s is strong pacing and character development.

她的作品与帕特尼蒂的作品的共同点是强劲的节奏和性格发展。

She introduces us to some of the crew and passengers, some of whom were only on the flight because of a missed connection.

她向我们介绍了一些机组人员和乘客，其中一些人因为错过转机才登上了航班。

In vivid prose, Mossman tells this near-disaster through their eyes, ears, and memories.

莫斯曼通过他们的眼睛、耳朵和记忆，用生动的散文讲述了这场濒临灾难的故事。

“This is the issue of the flight, as it lives on in the minds of those who survived it: how to measure the price of a disaster averted,” she writes.

“这就是这次航班的问题，因为它一直存在于那些幸存者的脑海中：如何衡量避免灾难的代价，”她写道。

For me as a reader?

对于我这个读者来说？

I felt this story deep in my gut.

我深深地感受到这个故事。

—KS

—KS