Jodi Ettenberg: My Top Longreads of 2011
Jodi Ettenberg is a frequent Longreader, ex-lawyer and founder of Legal Nomads, which documents her travels (and food adventures) around the world.
乔迪·埃滕伯格 (Jodi Ettenberg) 是一位经常阅读长篇文章的读者、前律师和 Legal Nomads 的创始人，该网站记录了她在世界各地的旅行（和美食冒险）。
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2011 was a banner year for long-form journalism and storytelling on the web, and correlatively a time to appreciate people like Mark who have propelled the Longreads movement forward.
2011 年对于网络上的长篇新闻和故事讲述来说是标志性的一年，相应地，也是对像马克这样推动长读运动向前发展的人表示感谢的时候。
I love how this site started as a hashtag on a soundbite-filled medium like Twitter, pulling away the noise to highlight the words and weightier pieces that engaged us all.
我喜欢这个网站最初是作为 Twitter 等充满声音的媒体上的主题标签，消除噪音以突出我们所有人都感兴趣的单词和更重要的片段。
It has never been easier to find something good to read.
找到好书从未如此简单。
And as I travel, I find myself connecting the dots between disparate countries or foods, drawing parallels within the stories I digest as I go.
当我旅行时，我发现自己将不同的国家或食物之间的点联系起来，在我旅途中消化的故事中找到相似之处。
It’s extremely hard to whittle down the many fantastic pieces this year to a short list, but the pieces I’ve picked below are ones that had a significant impact, and are now baked into my memories of the places where they were read.
很难将今年的许多精彩作品缩减为一个简短的清单，但我在下面挑选的作品都是具有重大影响的作品，现在已经融入了我阅读它们的地方的记忆中。
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1) The Man who Sailed His House (GQ): This piece could have been written matter-of-factly or reported as the news that it was at its base level: a man, lost at sea after Japan’s devastating tsunami, is finally rescued days later.
1）《航行他的房子的人》（GQ）：这篇文章本来可以写成实事求是的，也可以作为新闻来报道，它的基本水平是：一名男子在日本毁灭性的海啸中迷失在海上，几天后终于获救。
Instead, Michael Paterniti’s beautiful prose turns this astonishing tale into the surreal, raising it above anything else I’ve read about Hiromitsu Shinkawa.
相反，迈克尔·帕特尼蒂优美的散文将这个令人惊讶的故事变成了超现实主义，使其超越了我读过的有关新川弘光的任何其他故事。
Through the patchwork of photos from the tsunami and its vast scale of destruction, the sincere humanity of this story is not something you want to miss.
通过海啸及其大规模破坏的照片拼凑而成，这个故事中真诚的人性不容错过。
[Read it in: Casablanca, Morocco]
[阅读地点：摩洛哥卡萨布兰卡]
2) In the New Gangland of El Salvador (New York Review of Books): I’ve been a fan of Alma Guillermoprieto’s ability to tell a heartbreaking story with grace for quite some time, and her longread about El Salvador is no exception.
2）《萨尔瓦多的新黑帮》（《纽约书评》）：很长一段时间以来，我一直很喜欢阿尔玛·吉列尔莫普列托（Alma Guillermoprieto）优雅地讲述令人心碎的故事的能力，她关于萨尔瓦多的长篇小说也不例外。
Returning to El Salvador after 30 years, the piece swings between descriptive travelogue and somber reporting, digging into the history of the country’s ferocious gangs and why they are so prevalent.
30 年后重返萨尔瓦多，这篇文章在描述性游记和忧郁报道之间摇摆，深入探讨了该国凶猛帮派的历史以及它们为何如此盛行。
[Read it in: Montreal, Canada]
[阅读地点：加拿大蒙特利尔]
3) The Possibilian (The New Yorker): I first discovered David Eagleman when I read Sum, 40 short stories about an imaginary afterlife.
3) The Possibilian (《纽约客》)：当我读到《Sum》时，我第一次发现了 David Eagleman，这是 40 个关于想象中的来世的短篇小说。
At times funny, at times sad and each packing a punch in a short two-page read, I’ve been foisting Sum on those learning English as the creativity and short chapters make it an ideal learning book.
有时有趣，有时悲伤，每一篇都在短短的两页读物中充满了冲击力，我一直把《Sum》强加给那些学习英语的人，因为它的创造力和简短的章节使其成为一本理想的学习书。
So it was fascinating to learn more about Eagleman and his own brush with death, how he has collected hundreds of stories like his, and how “they almost all share the same quality: in life-threatening situations, time seems to slow down.” In Burkhard Bilger’s wonderful profile of the quirky neuroscientist, not only do we get insight into how and why Eagleman writes the way he does, but we learn about the philosophies behind his prose and how his own history naturally braids in, pushing him further to take risks beyond most of our comfort levels.
因此，更多地了解伊格曼和他自己与死亡的擦肩而过、他如何收集数百个类似的故事，以及“它们几乎都具有相同的品质：在生命受到威胁的情况下，时间似乎变慢了”，这是令人着迷的。在布克哈德·比尔格（Burkhard Bilger）对这位古怪的神经科学家的精彩描述中，我们不仅深入了解了伊格曼如何以及为何以他的方式写作，而且我们了解了他的散文背后的哲学，以及他自己的历史如何自然地融入其中，推动他进一步冒险，超越我们大多数的舒适水平。
[Read it in: Chiang Mai, Thailand]
[阅读地点：泰国清迈]
4) Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert (The Awl): I have Wikipedia bookmarked on both mobile and laptops, and it’s an argument-solver, fact-checker (with a pinch of salt) and using the random article generator, a great way to learn about new things you had no idea existed.
4）维基百科和专家之死（The Awl）：我在手机和笔记本电脑上都为维基百科添加了书签，它是一个论证解决器、事实检查器（带一点盐）并使用随机文章生成器，这是了解您不知道的新事物的好方法。
In her Awl piece, the talented Maria Bustillos discussed the pros and cons of the service, noting that “Wikipedia is like a laboratory for this new way of public reasoning for the purpose of understanding, an extended polylogue embracing every reader in an ever-larger, never-ending dialectic.” Instead of being told how it is, you’re given the facts to make your own editorial decision.
在她的 Awl 文章中，才华横溢的玛丽亚·布斯蒂洛斯 (Maria Busstillos) 讨论了这项服务的利弊，并指出“维基百科就像是这种以理解为目的的新公共推理方式的实验室，是一种扩展的多对白，以一种越来越大、永无休止的辩证法拥抱每一位读者。”您不会被告知情况如何，而是会根据事实做出自己的编辑决定。
Great read.
读得很好。
[Read it in: Bangkok, Thailand]
[阅读地点：泰国曼谷]
5) Deep Intellect: Inside the Mind of an Octopus (Orion Magazine): One of the more unusual and vaguely discomfiting pieces of the year (“Am I really sympathizing with the brain of an octopus?
5) 深层智力：章鱼的大脑内部（猎户座杂志）：今年最不寻常且隐约令人不安的作品之一（“我真的同情章鱼的大脑吗？
Yes, yes I am”), Sy Montgomery’s loving investigation of animal we often eat but rarely personify was a wonder to read.
是的，是的，我是”），西·蒙哥马利对我们经常吃但很少拟人化的动物进行了充满爱意的调查，读起来很精彩。
Whether talking about the study of octopus intellect, the description of octopus behaviour or Montgomery’s awe as he spends time with a 40-pound giant Pacific octopus, I couldn’t put it down.
无论是谈论章鱼智力的研究、章鱼行为的描述，还是蒙哥马利与 40 磅重的巨型太平洋章鱼相处时的敬畏，我都爱不释手。
I’ll never look at octopuses the same way again.
我再也不会以同样的方式看待章鱼了。
[Read it in: Istanbul, Turkey]
[阅读地点：土耳其伊斯坦布尔]
Bonus reads (hard to pick only five!)
奖励读物（很难选出五本！）
1) Breaking Caste (The Globe and Mail): Veteran journalist Stephanie Nolen reports on Sudha Varghese, the remarkable woman who built a school for the Dalit girls (India’s Untouchable caste), giving them new hope.
1) 打破种姓（《环球邮报》）：资深记者 Stephanie Nolen 报道了 Sudha Varghese，这位杰出的女性为达利特女孩（印度的贱民种姓）建造了一所学校，给了她们新的希望。
Nolen’s writing style and obvious research make the piece that much more interesting to read and her background section on Varghese’s life gives the story an additional human connection.
诺伦的写作风格和明显的研究使这篇文章读起来更有趣，她关于瓦尔盖斯生活的背景部分给这个故事带来了额外的人情联系。
[Read it in: London, England]
[阅读地点：英国伦敦]
2) When Irish Eyes are Crying (Vanity Fair): With Moneyball‘s marketing campaign in full force and Boomerang on the shelves, Michael Lewis is everywhere these days.
2) 《当爱尔兰人的眼睛在哭泣》（《名利场》）：随着《点球成金》的营销活动的全面展开以及《Boomerang》的上架，迈克尔·刘易斯如今无处不在。
However back in March when Vanity Fair published his longread on the Irish financial crisis, his buzz had yet to crescendo.
然而，早在三月份，《名利场》杂志发表了他关于爱尔兰金融危机的长篇文章时，他的热度还没有达到顶峰。
The piece sets out the background and confluence of factors that led to the Irish economic crash, as well as some unpopular opinions on how it could have been avoided.
这篇文章阐述了导致爱尔兰经济崩溃的背景和因素的综合作用，以及一些关于如何避免经济崩溃的不受欢迎的观点。
Very interesting read.
非常有趣的阅读。
[Read it in: Mae Hong Son, Thailand]
[阅读地点：泰国湄宏顺府]
3) My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant (The New York Times): Brave piece from Jose Antonio Vargas “coming out” as someone who has worked as a journalist and award-winning writer for years, all while hiding that he was not legally permitted to do so in the United States.
3) 我作为无证移民的生活（《纽约时报》）：何塞·安东尼奥·巴尔加斯的勇敢文章，以多年来作为记者和获奖作家的身份“出柜”，同时隐瞒了他在美国不被法律允许这样做的事实。
Living this otherworld reality meant that Vargas went about his days in fear of being found out, something he had spent years trying to avoid.
生活在这个异世界的现实中，瓦尔加斯每天都担心被发现，这是他多年来一直试图避免的。
Vargas attributes his decision to share the true story after reading about four students who walked from Miami to Washington to lobby for the Dream Act.
巴尔加斯在读到四名学生从迈阿密步行到华盛顿游说梦想法案后决定分享这个真实的故事。
[Read it in: New York, NY]
[阅读地点：纽约州纽约市]
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Share your own Top 5 Longreads of 2011, all through December.
整个 12 月，分享您自己的 2011 年 5 首长读作品。
Just tag it #longreads on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook.
只需在 Twitter、Tumblr 或 Facebook 上标记#longreads 即可。