Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
We asked all of our contributors to Longreads Best of 2015 to tell us about a story they felt deserved more recognition in 2015.
我们要求 Longreads Best of 2015 的所有撰稿人向我们讲述一个他们认为 2015 年值得更多认可的故事。
Here they are.
他们在这里。
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Leslie JamisonAuthor of The Empathy Exams, hailed as one of the best nonfiction books of 2014.
莱斯利·贾米森 (Leslie Jamison) 《同理心考试》(The Empathy Exams) 的作者，被誉为 2014 年最佳非小说类书籍之一。
Her work also has appeared in publications including Harper’s, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer.
她的作品还出现在《Harper’s》、《Oxford American》、《A Public Space》、《Virginia Quarterly Review》和《The Believer》等出版物上。
## Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?
## 你有没有想过杀人？
(Rachel Monroe, Matter)
（雷切尔·梦露，《事情》）
I love this chilling, deeply insightful piece of longform journalism by Rachel Monroe.
我喜欢雷切尔·梦露这篇令人毛骨悚然、见解深刻的长篇新闻报道。
In its substance, it’s an examination of a killing in Big Bend National Park in West Texas, but in its mode of inquiry—in its devotion to doubt and complexity and wondering—it has so much to say about violence, about youth and vulnerability, about the complicated relationship that forms between journalist and subject.
从本质上讲，这是对西德克萨斯州大弯国家公园发生的一起杀戮事件的审视，但从其探究方式——致力于怀疑、复杂性和好奇——它对暴力、青年和脆弱性、记者与拍摄对象之间形成的复杂关系有很多话要说。
Monroe looks at the stories her subject, a self-confessed killer, wants to tell about himself, the stories she wants to tell about him (the divide isn’t what you might imagine), and the distance that remains between her and the tragedy she documents.
梦露着眼于她的主题，一个自认是杀手的人想要讲述的关于他自己的故事，她想要讲述的关于他的故事（分歧不是你想象的那样），以及她和她记录的悲剧之间仍然存在的距离。
She writes the horrible in a way that finds something human in its bleak contours.
她以一种在凄凉的轮廓中找到人性的方式来书写恐怖。
The piece is gripping.
这件作品扣人心弦。
It won’t let you go.
它不会让你走。
Or at least it didn’t let me go anywhere; I read it straight through without pausing—and it’s still with me, in many odd moments of haunting and recollection.
或者至少它没有让我去任何地方；我没有停顿地直接读完了它——它仍然伴随着我，在许多令人难以忘怀和回忆的奇怪时刻。
It’s sharp, vivid, beautifully intelligent writing—intelligence directed towards a powerful openness of spirit, a commitment to nuance and insoluble mystery.
这是一种犀利、生动、美丽的智慧写作——智慧指向强大的开放精神、对细微差别和无法解决的神秘的承诺。
Roxane GayAuthor of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and Hunger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016.
罗克珊·盖伊 (Roxane Gay) 是《Ayiti》、《An Untamed State》、《Bad Feminist》和《Hunger》等书的作者，该书将于 2016 年由 Harper 出版社出版。
Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum, among many others.
她的作品曾发表在《公共空间》、《麦克斯威尼》、《锡屋》、《牛津美国》、《美国短篇小说》、《West Branch》、《弗吉尼亚季刊评论》、《NOON》、《纽约时报书评》和《图书论坛》等杂志上。
## Reckoning (Lisa Mecham, Midnight Breakfast)
## 清算（Lisa Mecham，午夜早餐）
I admire the structure, the elegance of the prose, and the unexpected way in which Mecham writes about trauma and growing into womanhood.
我欣赏其结构、散文的优雅，以及梅查姆描写创伤和成长为女性的出乎意料的方式。
Mark LottoEditorial lead, Medium, and proprietor of Matter.
Mark LottoMedium 编辑负责人和 Matter 所有者。
## An American Void (Stephanie McCrummen, The Washington Post)
## 美国的空虚（Stephanie McCrummen，《华盛顿邮报》）
“Where do you live now?” Wendy Darling asked Peter Pan, who was floating mid-air in her nursery and covered all in autumn leaves and cobwebs,.
“你现在住在哪里？”温蒂·达林问彼得·潘，彼得·潘漂浮在她的育儿室的半空中，浑身都覆盖着秋叶和蜘蛛网。
“With the lost boys,” Peter answered, “They are the children who fall out of their prams when the nurse is looking the other way.
“那些失踪的男孩，”彼得回答说，“他们是那些在护士不注意时从婴儿车上掉下来的孩子。
If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Never-Land.
如果七天内无人认领，他们就会被送往遥远的梦幻岛。
I’m captain.” Those lines kept getting all mixed-up in my head when I re-read for maybe the fifth time “An American Void,” probably because I knew I couldn’t think of the right words to describe “An American Void.”
我是队长。”当我第五次重读《美国的空虚》时，这些台词一直在我的脑海中变得混乱，可能是因为我知道我想不出合适的词语来描述“美国的空虚”。
The premise is: A Washington Post reporter hangs out in the South Carolina trailer where Dylann Roof crashed in the weeks before he murdered nine black church members at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.
故事背景是：一名《华盛顿邮报》记者在迪伦·鲁夫 (Dylann Roof) 在查尔斯顿伊曼纽尔 AME 教堂谋杀九名黑人教会成员的几周前发生车祸的南卡罗来纳州拖车里闲逛。
Now: There are few journalistic genre more bankrupt, less defensible, than the pitying, baffled, we-never-ever-saw-it-coming portraits of white spree shooters.
现在：很少有新闻类型比那些可怜的、困惑的、我们从未见过的白人枪击者的肖像更破产、更缺乏辩护了。
But that’s not this: This is the story of the people still crashed-down in that trailer.
但这不是这个：这是预告片中仍然崩溃的人们的故事。
This is story of the lost boys and lost girls who fell out of their prams when the country was looking the other way and who were never claimed.
这是一个关于失踪男孩和女孩的故事，当国家对此视而不见时，他们从婴儿车上摔了下来，但从未被认领。
They spend day after indistinguishable day getting high and getting drunk, updating Facebook and making the Xbox scream, cutting themselves or killing themselves, staring at their cellphones or out through the blinds but never seeing anything.
他们日复一日地嗑药喝醉，更新 Facebook，让 Xbox 尖叫，割伤自己或自杀，盯着手机或透过百叶窗看外面，但什么也看不见。
At first, their story seems unremarkable, except for its proximity to remarkable violence, but after a while you realize McCrummen without ever coming out and nut-graf-ing it, has turned it into the whole story of America, or America at its least remarkable, hopeless, pointless, killing people quickly in churches or slowly in trailers.
起初，他们的故事似乎平淡无奇，除了接近显着的暴力之外，但过了一段时间你就会意识到，麦克克鲁曼没有出来并把它变成坚果，它已经把它变成了美国的整个故事，或者是最不引人注目的、绝望的、毫无意义的美国，在教堂里迅速杀人，或者在拖车里慢慢杀人。
“What kind of people would do nothing?,” McCrummen asks, about the broken family who took Dylann Roof in but didn’t know how to help him or themselves, and the answer will ruin you.
“什么样的人会什么都不做？”麦克鲁门问道，谈到收留迪伦·鲁夫的破碎家庭，但不知道如何帮助他或自己，而答案会毁掉你。
Steve KandellExecutive Editor, Features at BuzzFeed, where he’s worked since 2012 overseeing longform feature assignments.
Steve Kandell BuzzFeed 专题执行编辑，自 2012 年以来一直在该公司工作，负责监督长篇专题任务。
## The Ad-Rock Retirement Plan (Zach Baron, GQ.com)
## Ad-Rock 退休计划（Zach Baron，GQ.com）
It’s a little weird to be casting a Zach Baron GQ profile of one of the most successful pop artists in recent decades as an underdog, but this one seems to have slipped under a lot of radars.
将近几十年来最成功的流行艺术家之一的扎克·巴伦 (Zach Baron) 塑造成一个失败者，这有点奇怪，但这一位似乎已经在很多人的关注下消失了。
(The story didn’t run in the magazine, hence the movie still art and the relative lack of promotion.) But this is just a stunningly frank and melancholy snapshot of a guy who has been famous for more than half his life and just isn’t really sure what to do with himself now that the one thing he’s always done—make music with his best friend Adam Yauch, who died in 2012—isn’t an option.
（这个故事没有在杂志上刊登，因此这部电影仍然是艺术作品，而且相对缺乏宣传。）但这只是一个令人震惊的坦率和忧郁的快照，这个人已经成名了大半辈子，只是不知道自己该怎么办，因为他一直在做的一件事——与他最好的朋友 Adam Yauch（于 2012 年去世）一起创作音乐——不再是一种选择。
He doesn’t need to work, but he’s not totally sure of what to do with himself every day.
他不需要工作，但他并不完全确定自己每天要做什么。
Stars, they’re just like us, etc.
明星，他们就像我们一样，等等。
Lauren KirchnerSenior Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.
Lauren Kirchner ProPublica 高级报告研究员。
## A Father’s Initiative (Eli Saslow, The Washington Post)
## 父亲的倡议（Eli Saslow，《华盛顿邮报》）
Saslow takes a classic reporting assignment—personalize an obscure policy initiative by following a person who’s navigating it—and he does it just about perfectly.
萨斯洛承担了一项经典的报告任务——通过跟踪一个正在实施的人来个性化一项不起眼的政策举措——他几乎完美地完成了这一任务。
This piece tells the story of Paul Gayle, a 19-year-old single father in Milwaukee who is enrolled in one of the “fatherhood classes” that are so heavily favored and funded by the Obama administration.
这篇文章讲述了保罗·盖尔 (Paul Gayle) 的故事，他是密尔沃基一位 19 岁的单亲父亲，他参加了受到奥巴马政府大力支持和资助的“父亲课程”之一。
He’s broke, but he’s trying; he’s looking for a job he can get to without a car and selling his PlayStation for baby food.
他身无分文，但他正在努力；他正在寻找一份无需汽车即可完成的工作，并出售他的 PlayStation 来换取婴儿食品。
Saslow follows Gayle to class, to home, and back, and on all the bus rides and transfers in between.
萨斯洛跟随盖尔上课、回家、返回，以及其间的所有公交车和转乘。
His portrayal of Gayle’s current situation, and how he got there, is closely observed and beautifully rendered.
他对盖尔目前处境以及他如何到达那里的描述经过仔细观察和精美呈现。
“Paul had come mostly because of the promise of free baby supplies, and lately he had been purchasing his Pampers one at a time, repeating the same transaction so often at a corner store that a clerk had dubbed it the Daddy Paul Special, 75 cents for a single cigarette and a size-3 diaper,” he writes.
“保罗来这里主要是因为免费婴儿用品的承诺，最近他每次都买一个帮宝适，在一家街角商店经常重复同样的交易，以至于店员将其称为“爸爸保罗特价”，一根香烟和一个 3 号尿布 75 美分，”他写道。
Bonus: the accompanying photos, by Jahi Chikwendiu, are gorgeous—maybe another reason that this story hasn’t left me since I read it.
额外奖励：Jahi Chikwendiu 拍摄的随附照片非常漂亮——这也许是我读完这个故事后一直念念不忘的另一个原因。
Erika HayasakiFreelance journalist and former LA Times national correspondent who teaches literary journalism at UC Irvine.
早崎艾里卡 (Erika Hayasaki) 自由撰稿人、前《洛杉矶时报》国家记者，在加州大学欧文分校教授文学新闻学。
## Searching for Eve (Meredith Talusan, Matter)
## 寻找伊芙（Meredith Talusan，Matter）
Our social media streams show how happy we are, how deeply we read, how thoughtful we are on the issues of the day.
我们的社交媒体流显示我们是多么快乐，我们阅读多么深入，我们对当今问题的思考多么深思熟虑。
These idealized online selves, we all know, filter out our bad days, and all that we may not want the world to know.
我们都知道，这些理想化的网络自我会过滤掉我们的糟糕日子，以及我们可能不想让世界知道的一切。
But this story by Meredith Talusan turns that idea of the real vs. ideal virtual self on its head, presenting a transgender woman who lives her truth on the Web, but not at home.
但梅雷迪思·塔卢桑 (Meredith Talusan) 的这个故事颠覆了真实自我与理想虚拟自我的观念，呈现了一位跨性别女性，她在网络上而不是在家里生活着自己的真相。
It is a fascinating deep dive into her life.
这是对她生活的一次令人着迷的深入探究。
The writer handles the main character’s privacy carefully and respectfully, capturing Eve’s journey as she moves closer to coming out offline.
作者小心而尊重地处理了主角的隐私，捕捉了伊芙即将出柜的旅程。
Francesca MariLongform editor and writer at Texas Monthly.
弗朗西斯卡·马里 (Francesca Mari) 德克萨斯月刊长篇编辑兼作家。
## Inside Enya’s Castle (Anne Helen Petersen, BuzzFeed)
## 恩雅城堡内部（Anne Helen Petersen，BuzzFeed）
I don’t know that this piece was overlooked, exactly.
我不知道这件作品是否被忽视了。
It’s more like, I would have overlooked it, if not for its author.
更像是，如果不是它的作者，我可能会忽略它。
I love Anne Helen Petersen’s sharp, funny, seriously penetrating and seriously unpretentious prose.
我喜欢安妮·海伦·彼得森的犀利、有趣、深刻而朴实的散文。
Her profile of Enya is no exception.
她对恩雅的简介也不例外。
Petersen’s portrait honors our international nostalgia for Enya.
彼得森的肖像纪念了我们对恩雅的国际怀念。
Jia TolentinoDeputy editor at Jezebel, and her work has also appeared in Pitchfork, FADER, Grantland and the New York Times.
Jia Tolentino Jezebel 副编辑，她的作品还出现在 Pitchfork、FADER、Grantland 和纽约时报上。
## American Deserter (Wil S.
## 美国逃兵 (Wil S.
Hylton, New York magazine)
希尔顿，纽约杂志）
Like Dave Philipps’s New York Times story on the Marine unit that’s been battling suicide as if it were a virus, Wil S.
就像戴夫·菲利普斯（Dave Philipps）在《纽约时报》上报道的那样，海军陆战队部队一直在与自杀作斗争，就好像它是一种病毒一样，威尔·S·
Hylton’s NYMag story on American deserters brought the particulars of military service in the post-9/11 era to chilling, immediate and surreal life.
希尔顿在《纽约杂志》上关于美国逃兵的报道将 9/11 后时代的兵役细节带入了令人毛骨悚然、直接且超现实的生活中。
A paragraph in this story mentions a man named Rodney Watson who watched American soldiers assault Iraqi civilians in Mosul, then afterwards deserted; he claimed sanctuary in a church that he has been unable to leave, even for a moment, for five years.
故事中的一段提到了一个名叫罗德尼·沃森的人，他目睹了美国士兵在摩苏尔袭击伊拉克平民，然后就被抛弃了。他在一座教堂里找到了庇护所，五年来他一直无法离开，哪怕是片刻。
More than 20,000 American soldiers deserted from 2003 to 2006 alone, Hylton writes, and the act still carries a possible death penalty.
希尔顿写道，仅从 2003 年到 2006 年就有超过 20,000 名美国士兵开小差，而且该法案仍然可能判处死刑。
In patient and compelling detail, “American Deserter” follows soldiers who fled to Canada, and now fight deportation and imprisonment for the crime of removing themselves from a war that a majority of the people they were ostensibly protecting now agree, from the comfort of our phone polls, was a mistake.
《美国逃兵》以耐心而引人入胜的细节讲述了逃往加拿大的士兵们的故事，他们因逃避战争而被驱逐出境和监禁，而他们表面上保护的大多数人现在从我们的电话民意调查中都同意，这是一个错误。
Don Van Natta Jr.Senior Writer at ESPN.
小唐·范纳塔 (Don Van Natta Jr.) ESPN 高级撰稿人。
## The Friend (Matthew Teague, Esquire)
## 《朋友》（马修·蒂格，《时尚先生》）
“No one ever told me the truth about dying,” writes Matthew Teague.
“从来没有人告诉过我关于死亡的真相，”马修·蒂格写道。
“Not once.
” “一次也没有。
When it happened to my beloved, I lost my footing in more than one way.”
当这件事发生在我心爱的人身上时，我在不止一种方面失去了立足点。”
Teague’s beloved is Nicole, his 34-year-old wife and mother of their two daughters who is dying of cancer.
蒂格的挚爱是妮可 (Nicole)，她是他 34 岁的妻子，也是两个女儿的母亲，目前正因癌症去世。
After her diagnosis, Teague’s friend, Dane, moves in for a couple weeks to help out and just be there.
确诊后，蒂格的朋友戴恩搬进来帮忙，并在那里待了几周。
Dane ends up staying for more than a year.
戴恩最终在这里呆了一年多。
Even after Nicole dies, Dane stays—for a while, anyway.
即使妮可死后，戴恩仍然留下来——无论如何，一段时间。
It may seem silly that I’ve chosen this essay as my favorite under-recognized piece of 2015—after all, it’s been shared on social media 48,000 times.
我选择这篇文章作为 2015 年我最喜欢的未被认可的文章，这似乎很愚蠢——毕竟，它在社交媒体上被分享了 48,000 次。
That’s a pretty good number, but it’s still not enough.
这是一个相当不错的数字，但仍然不够。
I hope you haven’t read it yet.
我希望你还没有读过。
Few pieces have touched me as deeply as this story about friendship, the kind that’s so true that it can pull a man through hellfire.
很少有作品能像这个关于友谊的故事那样深深地触动我，这种友谊如此真实，可以将一个人带入地狱之火。
Ariella CohenEditor-in-chief at Next City.
Ariella Cohen Next City 的主编。
## The Threat to Detroit’s Rebound Isn’t Crime or the Economy, It’s the Mortgage Industry (Anna Clark, Next City)
## 底特律经济复苏的威胁不是犯罪或经济，而是抵押贷款行业（Anna Clark，Next City）
“One of the most sinister legacies of urban development—redlining—is making a de facto reappearance in Detroit,” writes Motor City journalist Anna Clark in this Next City feature.
“城市发展最险恶的遗产之一——红线——实际上正在底特律重新出现，”汽车城记者安娜·克拉克在《下一个城市》专题中写道。
Clark details how mortgage industry practices are handicapping Detroiters’ ability to buy homes in the city even as hundreds of thousands of structures sit vacant and in need of purchasers.
克拉克详细介绍了抵押贷款行业的做法如何阻碍底特律人在该市购买房屋的能力，尽管数十万栋房屋空置并需要购买者。
This story had never been told before and in the way it week published, it was shared by thousands of Detroiters and covered by several local news outlets.
这个故事以前从未被讲述过，而且以它本周发布的方式，它被数千名底特律人分享，并被几家当地新闻媒体报道。
Its impacts will surely be felt as mortgage lenders and local officials feel pressure to reform a system that has silently held back the city for too long.
随着抵押贷款机构和地方官员感受到改革长期默默阻碍城市发展的体系的压力，其影响肯定会被感受到。
Kevin RooseNews director at Fusion, and the executive producer of Real Future, a new TV documentary series about technology and the future.
凯文·罗斯 (Kevin Roose) 是 Fusion 的新闻总监，也是有关技术和未来的新电视纪录片《真实未来》的执行制片人。
He is the New York Times bestselling author of Young Money and The Unlikely Disciple, and was previously a business and technology writer for New York magazine and the New York Times.
他是《纽约时报》畅销书《Young Money》和《不可能的门徒》的作者，此前曾担任《纽约》杂志和《纽约时报》的商业和技术撰稿人。
## The Genesis Engine (Amy Maxmen, Wired)
## 创世引擎（Amy Maxmen，《连线》）
The one I felt was under-recognized was this Wired cover story on Crispr.
我觉得没有得到充分认识的是《连线》杂志 Crispr 上的这篇封面故事。
I expected (and, to some extent, am still puzzled by the lack of) an extended national discussion about Crispr and gene-editing technology more generally, because it is the *craziest fucking thing*, and the work being done with it now will have implications bigger than 99% of technologies out there.
我预计（在某种程度上，我仍然对缺乏这种情况感到困惑）一场关于 Crispr 和基因编辑技术的更广泛的全国性讨论，因为它是*他妈的最疯狂的事情*，而且现在正在做的工作将比现有的 99% 的技术产生更大的影响。
Wired did a nice job of drawing the threads of the Crispr discussion together, and the only reason that I can think of that it hasn’t blossomed into a huge national issue is that most people still mistakenly think gene editing is sci-fi?
《连线》很好地把 Crispr 讨论的线索整合在一起，我能想到它没有发展成为一个巨大的全国性问题的唯一原因是大多数人仍然错误地认为基因编辑是科幻小说？
But it’s not!
但事实并非如此！
It’s happening now!
现在正在发生！
It’s going to happen a lot more!
还会有更多这样的事情发生！
We should probably talk about it!
我们也许应该谈谈它！
Chris VogelArticles Editor at Boston magazine.
克里斯·沃格尔 (Chris Vogel) 波士顿杂志文章编辑。
## How An American Tourist Lost His Passport In Istanbul And Was Sucked Into Syria’s War (Mike Giglio, Buzzfeed)
## 一名美国游客如何在伊斯坦布尔丢失护照并卷入叙利亚战争（Mike Giglio，Buzzfeed）
Here’s a look at the Syrian refugee crisis that sheds light on the current dilemmas and was under-recognized when it came out in May.
以下是叙利亚难民危机的概况，它揭示了当前的困境，但在 5 月份发布时并未得到充分认识。
Mina KimesSenior Writer at ESPN the Magazine and espn.com.
Mina Kimes ESPN 杂志和 espn.com 的高级撰稿人。
## Believe in Featherbowling (Chris Koentges, ESPN Magazine)
## 相信羽毛保龄球（Chris Koentges，ESPN 杂志）
A lot of people missed this story, and it’s easy to see why.
很多人错过了这个故事，原因很容易理解。
It’s about a quirky sport that no one’s ever heard of, centered around a protagonist with an unfamiliar name.
这是关于一项没人听说过的古怪运动的故事，以一个名字陌生的主角为中心。
To be honest, I wasn’t interested in reading this story until I started reading it.
说实话，在我开始阅读这个故事之前，我并没有兴趣阅读它。
Then I couldn’t stop.
然后我就停不下来了。
Chris Koentges pulled off a series of difficult feats here: He tells the story of the game, explains how it works, imbues it with a sense of wonder, and then uses that mythology to build a compelling, heartbreaking narrative around a singular character—Steve Gosskie, the son of Detroit who became its featherbowling champion.
克里斯·科恩格斯（Chris Koentges）在这里完成了一系列艰巨的壮举：他讲述了游戏的故事，解释了游戏的运作方式，给游戏注入了一种惊奇感，然后利用神话围绕一个独特的角色——底特律的儿子史蒂夫·戈斯基（Steve Gosskie）构建了一个引人入胜、令人心碎的叙述，他是底特律的羽毛保龄球冠军。
Koentges created a small, specific, beautifully rendered world, and when I finished the story, I didn’t want to leave it behind.
科恩格斯创造了一个小而具体、渲染精美的世界，当我完成这个故事时，我不想把它抛在后面。
Glenn StoutSeries Editor of the Best American Sports Writing, and Longform Editor for SB Nation.
Glenn Stout 是美国最佳体育写作系列的编辑，也是 SB Nation 的长篇编辑。
## Slipping Away (Shannon Proudfoot, Maclean’s)
## 溜走（Shannon Proudfoot，麦克林出版社）
It’s a fallacy to think that because of the Internet we all have access to every story ever written and every story worth reading gets passed around like the flu until we’re all coughing in unison.
认为由于互联网，我们都可以接触到曾经写过的每一个故事，每一个值得一读的故事都会像流感一样传播，直到我们都齐声咳嗽，这是一种谬论。
It doesn’t always happen that way, particularly in the United States for stories from Canada, my other country (at least my other country when, as a dual citizen, I’m down here in my other country, the U.S.)
事情并不总是这样发生，特别是在美国，故事来自加拿大，我的另一个国家（至少是我的另一个国家，作为双重公民，我在我的另一个国家，美国）
I couldn’t shake this story, and I think that is because Shannon Proudfoot knew well enough to get out of the way of this story about 38-year-old Jo Aubin, who is dying of Alzheimer’s.
我无法摆脱这个故事，我认为这是因为 Shannon Proudfoot 非常了解这个关于 38 岁乔·奥宾 (Jo Aubin) 的故事，她因阿尔茨海默氏症而濒临死亡。
I talk a lot to writers about “transparent” writing, knowing when not to let style intrude, and how that takes as much craft and artistry as writing with backflips.
我和作家们谈论了很多关于“透明”写作的话题，知道什么时候不让风格侵入，以及如何像后空翻写作一样需要技巧和艺术性。
If anything, the decisions can even be more difficult, because the story must be teased out organically, entirely through the reporting and details.
如果有的话，决策可能会更加困难，因为故事必须完全通过报告和细节有机地梳理出来。
I love it when I encounter a story that shows how true this is, when truth of the reporting does not need any embellishment.
当我遇到一个表明这是多么真实的故事时，我喜欢它，当报道的真实性不需要任何修饰时。
A measure of this is that although I could remember the story, and the impact it had on me, when asked to selected a story for this category, at first I could not recall where I read it or who wrote it.
衡量这一点的一个标准是，虽然我记得这个故事，以及它对我的影响，但当被要求为这个类别选择一个故事时，起初我不记得我在哪里读到它或是谁写的。
I only remembered the story, about someone who cannot remember, and the subject, who I cannot now forget.
我只记得这个故事，关于一个不记得的人，以及我现在无法忘记的主题。
There is something to be said for that.
对此有一些话要说。
Erik MalinowskiFreelance writer based near San Francisco.
埃里克·马林诺夫斯基 (Erik Malinowski) 是旧金山附近的自由作家。
## Prison Born (Sarah Yager, The Atlantic)
## 《监狱诞生》（莎拉·雅格，《大西洋月刊》）
Some stories you feel on a visceral level, even though it’s rooted in a specific scenario or environment that may be completely foreign.
有些故事你会发自内心地感受到，尽管它植根于可能完全陌生的特定场景或环境。
Such is the effect of Yager’s compelling exploration of women who give birth while incarcerated and the rationale for creating more on-site nurseries so that being in prison doesn’t preclude being a mother.
这就是耶格尔对监禁期间分娩的女性进行令人信服的探索所产生的效果，以及创建更多现场托儿所的理由，以便在监狱中并不妨碍成为母亲。
Yager neatly sums up the inherent tension (“Should institutions that limit so many basic rights allow inmates to be active parents?”) and then shows readers the real-life ramifications contingent on that question’s answer, in addition to providing a remarkable and eye-opening history of women in American jails.
耶格尔巧妙地总结了内在的紧张关系（“限制如此多基本权利的机构应该允许囚犯成为积极的父母吗？”），然后向读者展示了该问题的答案所带来的现实生活后果，此外还提供了美国监狱中女性的非凡且令人大开眼界的历史。
With a deft narrative touch and more than a little empathy, Yager illuminates a very real, national problem that often goes unseen.
耶格尔以巧妙的叙事手法和一点点同理心，阐明了一个非常现实的、经常被忽视的国家问题。
Jessica GrossWriter who lives in New York with her dog, Benji.
作家杰西卡·格罗斯 (Jessica Gross) 和她的狗本吉 (Benji) 住在纽约。
## Going It Alone (Fenton Johnson, Harper’s)
## 独自行动（芬顿·约翰逊，哈珀出版社）
I read this piece, or part of it, late on a Sunday night in Kennedy Airport.
周日深夜，我在肯尼迪机场读到了这篇文章或其中的一部分。
I was standing in line for a taxi to go home, a line that seemed almost humorously long, agitated-human noises blaring into the harsh flourescence.
我正在排队等出租车回家，这条队伍看起来几乎是幽默地长，激动的人类噪音在刺耳的荧光中刺耳。
An unpleasant situation.
一个不愉快的情况。
Yet as I stood reading this remarkable piece, surrounded by bags, all of that disappeared.
然而，当我站着阅读这篇非凡的文章时，周围都是袋子，所有这些都消失了。
Life was a pinpoint: this essay.
生活是一个精确的点：这篇文章。
Johnson’s meditation on solitude is lyrical and precise, a slow and thoughtful accretion.
约翰逊对孤独的沉思是抒情而精确的，是一种缓慢而深思熟虑的积累。
Johnson had lived alone for more than two decades by the time of writing, but his focus is not singles or hermits but “solitaries.” “The call to solitude is universal.
截至撰写本文时，约翰逊已经独居二十多年，但他关注的不是单身人士或隐士，而是“孤独者”。 “对孤独的呼唤是普遍的。
It requires no cloister walls and no administrative bureaucracy, only the commitment to sit down and still ourselves to our particular aloneness,” he writes.
它不需要修道院的围墙，也不需要行政官僚机构，只需要坐下来，让自己安静下来，享受我们特殊的孤独，”他写道。
To define a solitary as someone who is not married — to define solitude as the absence of coupling — is like defining silence as the absence of noise.
将独居者定义为未婚人士——将孤独定义为没有耦合——就像将沉默定义为没有噪音一样。
Solitude and silence are positive gestures.
孤独和沉默是积极的姿态。
This is why Buddhists say that we can learn what we need to know by sitting on a cushion.
这就是为什么佛教徒说我们可以通过坐在垫子上来学习我们需要知道的东西。
This is why I say that you can learn what you need to know from the silent, solitary discipline of writing, the discipline of art.
这就是为什么我说你可以从沉默、孤独的写作纪律、艺术纪律中学到你需要知道的东西。
This is why I say that solitaries possess the key to saving us from ourselves.
这就是为什么我说孤独者拥有拯救我们自己的钥匙。
Johnson assigns the solitary a great responsibility: a fierce introspection and moral engagement.
约翰逊赋予独居者一项重大责任：强烈的内省和道德参与。
This is by no means a passive pursuit.
这绝不是一种被动的追求。
It requires a deliberate slowing-down — an effect of reading the piece, too.
它需要刻意放慢速度——这也是阅读这篇文章的效果。
When I finished, I could only blink repeatedly, registering the world again, now reminded that my internal world was just as great, and mine.
当我完成后，我只能反复眨眼，再次记录这个世界，现在提醒我，我的内心世界同样伟大，也是我的。
Shannon ProudfootSenior writer with Sportsnet magazine.
香农·普劳德富特《Sportsnet》杂志的资深撰稿人。
## Playing God (Richard Kelly Kemick, The Walrus)
## 扮演上帝（理查德·凯利·凯米克，《海象》）
The first mention I saw of Richard Kelly Kemick’s story “Playing God” was a tweet along the lines of, “Give yourself a good 15 minutes after reading this to just sit and stare into space for a little while.” And, holy man, does it live up to that billing.
我第一次看到理查德·凯利·凯米克 (Richard Kelly Kemick) 的故事《扮演上帝》是一条推文，大意是这样的：“读完这篇文章后，给自己 15 分钟的时间，坐下来凝视一会儿。”而且，圣人，它是否符合这个要求。
This piece starts in one place—something like a grandmother’s charmingly navel-gazing column in a small-town weekly newspaper, maybe?—and then takes a hard left turn into David Sedaris-esque territory of weird, dark wonderfulness.
这篇文章从一个地方开始——也许有点像一位祖母在小镇周报上迷人的肚脐眼专栏？——然后急速左转进入大卫·塞达里斯式的怪异、黑暗奇妙领域。
It’s a testament to the crackling writing that even while one corner of my brain kept screaming, “You need to get a real job and apologize to your wife!” I was utterly transfixed by this.
这证明了我那噼啪作响的写作，尽管我大脑的一个角落一直在尖叫，“你需要找到一份真正的工作并向你的妻子道歉！”我对此彻底惊呆了。
It’s a totally original and deliciously twisted meditation on obsession.
这是对痴迷的完全原创且扭曲的冥想。
Francie DiepScience writer at Pacific Standard.
弗朗西·迪普 (Francie Diep) 太平洋标准号科学撰稿人。
## No, Native Americans Aren’t Genetically More Susceptible to Alcoholism (Maia Szalavitz, The Verge)
## 不，美洲原住民在基因上并不更容易酗酒（Maia Szalavitz，The Verge）
I’m abashed that as a science journalist and former genetics teacher, I’ve never, never, never known that American Indians aren’t genetically more vulnerable to alcoholism.
令我感到羞愧的是，作为一名科学记者和前遗传学老师，我从来、从来、从来不知道美洲印第安人在基因上并不更容易酗酒。
As Maia Szalavitz reports for the Verge, however, “there’s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group.” Instead, aboriginal people’s higher rates of addiction all around the world are better explained by early-life poverty and trauma.
然而，正如 Maia Szalavitz 在 The Verge 上报道的那样，“没有证据表明美洲原住民在生物学上比任何其他群体更容易受到药物滥用障碍的影响。”相反，世界各地原住民的较高成瘾率可以更好地用早年的贫困和创伤来解释。
Luckily, there are ways societies can fix those risk factors—unlike people’s genes.
幸运的是，社会可以通过一些方法来解决这些风险因素——与人类的基因不同。
Every paragraph in this story uncovered new facts I wanted to share.
这个故事中的每一段都揭示了我想分享的新事实。
I love that about great science journalism.
我喜欢伟大的科学新闻。
Taffy Brodesser-AknerGQ correspondent and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.
Taffy Brodesser-AknerGQ 通讯员和《纽约时报杂志》特约撰稿人。
## Spun (Steve Friedman, Bicycling)
## Spun（史蒂夫·弗里德曼，骑自行车）
This story is not in my beat, but it’s written by one of my favorite writers, Steve Friedman, who (disclosure) has been my mentor and friend.
这个故事不符合我的节奏，但它是由我最喜欢的作家之一史蒂夫·弗里德曼写的，他（披露）一直是我的导师和朋友。
He sent me an early draft of this, and it was great then, but it emerged as a heart-wrenching story of addiction and love and people who find each other and therefore themselves, written with sensitivity and a quiet respect, and I don’t know why more people didn’t find it.
他给我发了一份初稿，当时很棒，但它是一个关于成瘾和爱情的令人心碎的故事，人们找到彼此，从而找到自己，写得敏感和安静的尊重，我不知道为什么更多的人没有找到它。
This is fully absorbing, the kind of story you come out of as if you just walked out of a dark movie theater into a bright light, and those are the stories that make it all worth it.
这是完全引人入胜的故事，你从这样的故事中走出来，就好像你刚刚从黑暗的电影院走进明亮的灯光一样，这些故事让这一切都值得。
## Shrimp Boy’s Day in Court (Elizabeth Weil, The New York Times)
## 法庭上的虾男孩节（伊丽莎白·韦尔，《纽约时报》）
Elizabeth Weil and I are close and typically read each other’s first drafts, and this was just great from the beginning: “Shrimp Boy’s Day in Court” is the very colorful life story of a gangster facing the legal system that Liz captures with a pitch-perfect tone—spare, certainly not too heavy—that allows his story to come through and stay with you long after you’re done reading it.
伊丽莎白·韦尔和我关系很亲密，通常都会阅读对方的初稿，这从一开始就很棒：《虾男孩法庭上的日子》讲述了一个黑帮面对法律体系的丰富多彩的生活故事，莉兹用完美的音调捕捉到了这一点——简洁，当然不会太沉重——这让他的故事在你读完后很长一段时间内都在你脑海中萦绕不去。
Doree ShafrirCulture writer at BuzzFeed News.
Doree Shafrir BuzzFeed 新闻的文化撰稿人。
## Anything to Make You Happy (Ottessa Moshfegh, Lucky Peach)
## 任何让你开心的事情（Ottessa Moshfegh、Lucky Peach）
Ottessa Moshfegh’s essay is about mayonnaise.
奥特莎·莫什菲格 (Ottessa Moshfegh) 的文章是关于蛋黄酱的。
But it’s also about immigrant parents, and relationships, and how people can surprise us even when we’ve known them all our lives — and told in a tricky-to-pull-off tone that is at once poignant and sardonic, bordering on the absurd.
但它也讲述了移民父母和人际关系，以及即使我们已经认识了他们一辈子，人们却如何给我们带来惊喜——并且以一种难以拉开距离的语气讲述，这种语气既辛酸又讽刺，近乎荒谬。
In one scene, Moshfegh cuts her boyfriend’s toenails, and draws blood.
在一个场景中，莫什菲割断了男友的脚趾甲，并流血了。
The symbolism is hard to miss, and yet, he’s sitting there in a fluffy pink bathrobe from Victoria’s Secret when her parents walk in, and I couldn’t help but laugh.
这种象征意义很难忽视，然而，当她的父母走进来时，他穿着维多利亚的秘密的蓬松粉色浴袍坐在那里，我忍不住笑了。
Ashlee VanceWriter at Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of the New York Times bestseller Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
阿什莉·万斯（Ashlee Vance）是《彭博商业周刊》的撰稿人，也是《纽约时报》畅销书《埃隆·马斯克：特斯拉、SpaceX 和探索美好未来》的作者。
## The Frenchman Who Followed Chris McCandless Into Alaska (Brendan Borrell, Outside)
## 跟随克里斯·麦坎德利斯进入阿拉斯加的法国人（布伦丹·博雷尔，外面）
I’m a sucker for pieces on people—like François Guenot—who choose to live unconventional lives.
我很喜欢关于像弗朗索瓦·格诺这样选择过非传统生活的人的作品。
This story captures the journey Guenot, a free-spirited Frenchman, took into the Alaskan wilderness.
这个故事记录了自由奔放的法国人格诺进入阿拉斯加荒野的旅程。
It’s full of melancholy and joy and plenty of surprising twists.
它充满了忧郁和欢乐，还有许多令人惊讶的曲折。
The author Brendan Borrell has a gift for vivid descriptions and pacing.
作者布伦丹·博雷尔 (Brendan Borrell) 具有生动的描述和节奏的天赋。
Well worth your time.
非常值得您花时间。
Justin NobelFreelance science writer based in New Orleans.
贾斯汀·诺贝尔 (Justin Nobel) 居住在新奥尔良的自由科学作家。
## The Final Rhapsody of Charles Bowden (Scott Carrier, High Country News/Mother Jones)
## 查尔斯·鲍登的最后狂想曲（斯科特·卡里尔、高地新闻/琼斯妈妈）
Charles Bowden wrote an army of innovative and fiery longform stories.
查尔斯·鲍登（Charles Bowden）写了一大堆创新而激烈的长篇故事。
Last year he died, but shortly before his death Scott Carrier visited him.
去年他去世了，但在他去世前不久，斯科特·卡里尔拜访了他。
Another titan of the literary frontier.
又一位文学前沿的巨人。
This short sweet essay shows the two firebrands meeting around the hearth.
这篇简短而甜蜜的文章展示了两个煽动者在壁炉边相遇的情景。
It is about the death of a master, and it is about what writing is all about.
这是关于一位大师的去世，也是关于写作的意义。
It is beautiful.
它很美丽。
You can see Carrier struggling with the form, the message he needs to convey is too powerful for words alone, which is why I suggest anyone interested in long-form writing also watch the 8 minute video clip of Scott Carrier interviewing Bowden.
你可以看到Carrier在形式上苦苦挣扎，他需要传达的信息对于单靠文字来说太强大了，这就是为什么我建议任何对长篇写作感兴趣的人也观看Scott Carrier采访Bowden的8分钟视频片段。
Nitasha TikuSenior writer for BuzzFeed News covering technology and culture.
Nitasha Tiku BuzzFeed 新闻的高级撰稿人，报道技术和文化。
## The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers (Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic)
## 消除人类司机世界的高风险竞赛（Adrienne LaFrance，大西洋月刊）
Adrienne LaFrance’s recent feature in The Atlantic tells the story of a pivotal moment in technological history — where enigmatic “titans of Silicon Valley” are investing billions of dollars in a race to build something unprecedented that could (truly!) change the way we live.
艾德丽安·拉弗兰斯 (Adrienne LaFrance) 最近在《大西洋月刊》上发表的专题报道讲述了科技史上一个关键时刻的故事——神秘的“硅谷巨头”正在投入数十亿美元竞相打造前所未有的东西，从而能够（真正！）改变我们的生活方式。
While engineers on the “frontier of knowledge” experiment in secret, the corporate struggle to dominate this nascent market is already playing out in public.
当“知识前沿”的工程师们秘密进行实验时，企业主导这个新兴市场的斗争已经在公开上演。
LaFrance was writing about the race between Google, Tesla, Apple, and Uber to build the best driverless car, but she could just as easily have been writing about Elon Musk competing for data and talent in artificial intelligence or billionaires (hello again, Elon!) squabbling over sending unmanned rockets into space.
拉弗兰斯写的是谷歌、特斯拉、苹果和优步之间为打造最好的无人驾驶汽车而进行的竞赛，但她也可以很容易地写埃隆·马斯克在人工智能领域争夺数据和人才，或者亿万富翁（你好，埃隆！）关于将无人驾驶火箭送入太空的争论。
LaFrance makes an esoteric subject accessible and exciting.
拉弗朗斯让深奥的主题变得平易近人、令人兴奋。
At this early stage, when companies are more guarded than usual, questioning motives and differentiating between pomp and possibility is crucial, especially as tech corporations come to control more infrastructure and aspects of our lives.
在这个早期阶段，当公司比平时更加谨慎时，质疑动机并区分浮夸与可能性至关重要，尤其是当科技公司开始控制更多基础设施和我们生活的各个方面时。
John HerrmanCo-editor of The Awl.
约翰·赫尔曼 (John Herrman) 《锥子》联合编辑。
## They Did It All for the Nookie: The Rise and Fall of Nu-Metal (Shane Mehling, Decibel)
## 他们为 Nookie 所做的一切：新金属的兴衰（Shane Mehling，Decibel）
Because those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it???
因为那些不记得过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙？？？
The best possible story about the worst possible thing.
关于最糟糕的事情的最好的故事。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Emily Perper
长读编辑推荐：Emily Perper
@Emily_Perper
@Emily_Perper
## What Happened When I Confronted My Cruellest Troll (Lindy West, The Guardian)
## 当我面对最残忍的巨魔时发生了什么（林迪·韦斯特，《卫报》）
It is one thing for a man to confront his trolls.
一个人面对他的巨魔是一回事。
For instance: comedian Chris Gethard invited his teenage Twitter antagonist to appear on The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion.
例如：喜剧演员克里斯·格哈德邀请他十几岁的推特对手出现在 Fusion 的克里斯·格哈德秀上。
It was charming and hilarious.
它既迷人又搞笑。
Soon after, Gethard recounted the experience for NPR, saying “This kid’s bored, but he’s actually pretty funny.”
不久之后，格哈德向 NPR 讲述了这段经历，他说：“这个孩子很无聊，但他实际上很有趣。”
It is another thing, completely, for a woman to take on her online harassers.
对于女性来说，对抗网络骚扰者完全是另一回事。
Women receive far more vitriol online—including rape and death threats, doxing, and stalking—than men.
女性在网上受到的刻薄批评——包括强奸和死亡威胁、人肉搜索和跟踪——比男性多得多。
Writer and feminist Lindy West never shies away from speaking her truth or sharing her opinions.
作家兼女权主义者林迪·韦斯特从不回避说出她的真相或分享她的观点。
And people—especially men—hate that.
人们——尤其是男人——讨厌这样。
I listened to Episode #545 of This American Life, “If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS”—the first and only episode I’ve ever listened to—while I was at my temp job, archiving papers.
当我做临时工作、归档文件时，我听了《美国生活》的第 545 集，“如果你没有什么好话要说，那就全部大写地说”——这是我听过的第一集也是唯一一集。
West’s segment, Act I, moved me.
韦斯特的第一幕片段令我感动。
She interviews one of her most vicious trolls via phone.
她通过电话采访了她最恶毒的巨魔之一。
This man created a new Twitter profile, impersonating West’s deceased father, in order to harass her.
该男子冒充韦斯特已故的父亲创建了一个新的推特个人资料，以骚扰她。
I gasped and teared up over the paper clips and the staples.
我气喘吁吁，泪流满面地看着回形针和订书钉。
It seemed unbelievably cruel.
这看起来残酷得令人难以置信。
I couldn’t believe someone would take the time to hurt a person they’d never met in such a cruelly specific way.
我不敢相信有人会花时间以如此残酷的方式伤害一个他们从未见过的人。
And I couldn’t believe West was willing to talk to someone who’d done this to her.
我不敢相信韦斯特愿意和对她做过这种事的人说话。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Aaron Gilbreath
长读编辑精选：亚伦·吉尔布雷斯
@AaronGilbreath
@亚伦吉尔布雷斯
## Toile Chic (Colette Shade, The Awl)
## Toile Chic（Colette Shade、The Awl）
It’s surprising how you can groan about ugly decor your whole life, yet never ask any questions about its origins.
令人惊讶的是，你一生都在抱怨丑陋的装饰，但却从未询问过它的起源。
Fortunately, in The Awl, writer Colette Shade asked questions about that ugly 18th century European textile pattern called toile.
幸运的是，在《锥子》中，作家科莱特·谢德 (Colette Shade) 对 18 世纪欧洲一种名为“土布”的丑陋纺织图案提出了问题。
Depicting, in Shade’s words, “images of happy poor people,” as well as French colonialism and exoticism, toile shows peasants farming, peasants lunching, peasants feeding ducks and doing other rural labor that, removed from the actual poverty and labor, look quaintly pastoral inside a wealthy person’s home.
用谢德的话来说，《劳动》描绘了“快乐的穷人的形象”，以及法国殖民主义和异国情调，展示了农民耕作、农民吃午饭、农民喂鸭子和做其他农村劳动，远离了实际的贫困和劳动，在富人的家里看起来有一种古雅的田园风光。
The French bourgeoisie decorated with toile wallpaper, curtains and upholstery, just as a certain breed of affluent American decorates with it now.
法国资产阶级用瓷砖壁纸、窗帘和室内装潢来装饰，就像现在某些富裕的美国人所用的装饰一样。
Shade tells where the patterns came from and how they functioned “as a reminder that everything is okay, showing wealthy people how idyllic poor people’s lives can be,” during a time when the French were largely subsistence farmers suffering bad harvests and over-taxation, and preparing to revolt.
谢德讲述了这些图案的来源以及它们如何发挥作用，“提醒人们一切都好，向富人展示穷人的生活可以是多么田园诗般的”，当时法国人主要是自给自足的农民，遭受歉收和过度征税，并准备反抗。
Toile’s is a story of social and economic inequality, of how the privileged use interior design to warp reality and assuage any bad feelings about the status quo.
《Toile》讲述了社会和经济不平等的故事，讲述了特权阶层如何利用室内设计来扭曲现实并缓解对现状的不良情绪。
Read in our era of increasing class divisions and political divisiveness, it’s the story of how, in many ways, little has changed.
在我们这个阶级分化和政治分歧日益加剧的时代，读到这个故事，在很多方面都没有发生什么变化。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Sari Botton
长读编辑推荐：Sari Botton
@saribotton
@萨里博顿
## How to Make Yogurt in Manila (Grace Talusan, The Butter/The Toast)
## 如何在马尼拉制作酸奶（Grace Talusan、黄油/吐司）
I was so moved by this essay by Grace Talusan, a writer on a Fulbright fellowship that has brought her back to her native Manila.
格蕾丝·塔卢桑 (Grace Talusan) 的这篇文章让我深受感动，她是一位获得富布赖特奖学金的作家，她因此回到了家乡马尼拉。
It was originally posted on The Butter, The Toast’s sister site, which was discontinued shortly after this piece appeared.
它最初发布在 The Toast 的姊妹网站 The Butter 上，该网站在这篇文章出现后不久就停止了。
Talusan writes about sublimating her loneliness and frustrations—with the staggering poverty she encounters, with her powerlessness to help poor children living in horrendous conditions, with her infertility–in obsessively making yogurt, from scratch.
塔卢桑写到，她的孤独和挫败感——她所经历的惊人的贫困，她无力帮助生活在可怕条件下的贫困儿童，以及她的不孕症——在痴迷地从头开始制作酸奶的过程中升华了她的孤独和挫败感。
It’s wrenching, reflective personal narrative with a thread of sensuous food writing artfully wound right through it.
这是一部令人痛苦、反思的个人叙事，其中巧妙地缠绕着一条感性的食物写作线索。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Matt Giles
长读编辑精选：马特·吉尔斯
@hudsongiles
@hudsongiles
## What Happened After My Kidnapping (Bradford Pearson, Philadelphia Magazine)
## 我被绑架后发生了什么（布拉德福德·皮尔森，费城杂志）
During his senior year at Saint Joseph’s University in Phialdelphia, Pearson was robbed at gunpoint and then kidnapped for hours.
在费城圣约瑟夫大学读大四时，皮尔逊遭到持枪抢劫，然后被绑架了几个小时。
Now, a decade after his assailants were convicted, Pearson revisits the crime, recounting what happened that night, how he dealt with the lingering trauma and stress in the ensuing years, and how, this past spring, he visited two of the three men who assaulted him.
现在，在袭击者被定罪十年后，皮尔森重新审视了这起犯罪事件，讲述了当晚发生的事情，他如何应对随后几年挥之不去的创伤和压力，以及今年春天他如何拜访了袭击他的三名男子中的两名。
It’s a gripping first-person feature, and Pearson does a good job straddling the line between emotion and objectivity.
这是一个扣人心弦的第一人称特征，皮尔逊很好地跨越了情感和客观之间的界限。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Brendan O’Connor
长读编辑推荐：布伦丹·奥康纳
@_grendan
@_grendan
## The Last Volunteer (Dan Kaufman, New York Times Magazine)
## 最后的志愿者（丹·考夫曼，纽约时报杂志）
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of some three thousand Americans traveled to Spain to fight on the side of the democratically-elected government, against Franco.
西班牙内战期间，大约三千名美国人前往西班牙，站在民选政府一边，反对佛朗哥。
This is the story, in his own words, of 99-year-old Del Berg, the last-known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
用他自己的话说，这是 99 岁的德尔伯格的故事，他是亚伯拉罕·林肯旅最后一位幸存的老兵。
“It bothers me a little that at 99 you’re going to die any minute, because I have a lot of other things I want to do.”
“99岁的时候你随时都会死去，这让我有点困扰，因为我还有很多其他事情想做。”
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Mark Armstrong
长读编辑推荐：马克·阿姆斯特朗
@markarms
@markarms
## Teachings (Win Bassett, Poetry magazine)
## 教学（温·巴塞特，诗歌杂志）
For several years I’ve known Win Bassett mostly as an avatar on Twitter, a distant connection that exists mainly because he occasionally tweets #longreads.
多年来，我主要通过 Twitter 上的头像认识 Win Bassett，这种遥远的联系主要是因为他偶尔发推文 #longreads。
What I’ve since discovered is that he is a former criminal prosecutor who discovered poetry and went to divinity school.
后来我发现，他是一名前刑事检察官，发现了诗歌并上过神学院。
Through his remarkable essay in Poetry magazine about working as a hospital chaplain, he takes us far away from Twitter—to the hospital beds of those who are dying.
通过他在《诗歌》杂志上发表的关于医院牧师工作的精彩文章，他带我们远离推特——来到那些垂死之人的病床上。
Some have hope, many have lost it.
有些人还抱有希望，很多人却失去了希望。
Some have no one to pray for them except those, like Bassett, whose job it is to make sure that never happens.
有些人没有人为他们祈祷，除了像巴塞特这样的人，他们的工作就是确保这种情况永远不会发生。
“I’ve found the lines about cursing God, ‘Shame on Him,’ to be true.
“我发现咒骂上帝的诗句‘他真丢脸’是真的。
My supervisor had told us—me and my fellow chaplain interns—that we might find it appropriate to tell a patient that it’s all right to be angry at God.
我的主管告诉我们——我和我的实习牧师同事——我们可能会发现告诉病人对上帝生气是可以的。
…
……
Some refuse pain-alleviating medication because they believe God wills them to suffer like Christ.
有些人拒绝服用止痛药物，因为他们相信上帝希望他们像基督一样受苦。
‘Sometimes, God sucks,’ I eventually tell one woman around midnight before she goes into surgery the next morning for a cancer.”
“有时候，上帝很糟糕，”我最终在午夜左右告诉一位女士，然后她第二天早上就因癌症接受手术。”
Bassett’s reflections are lessons in empathy and spirituality, what poetry tells us about the unfairness of illness, about words that matter to the dying and the grieving, the trouble we face in making sense of why god, if she exists, would allow so much awfulness into our world, and the generosity that is on display—every hour, every day—in hospitals around the world.
巴塞特的反思是关于同理心和灵性的教训，诗歌告诉我们疾病的不公平，告诉我们关于临终者和悲伤者的重要话语，我们在理解为什么上帝（如果她存在）会允许如此多的可怕进入我们的世界时所面临的困难，以及世界各地的医院每时每刻所表现出的慷慨。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Mike Dang
长读编辑推荐：Mike Dang
@reportermike
@reporttermike
## The Hidden Story of Harley Quinn and How She Became the Superhero World’s Most Successful Woman (Abraham Riesman, Vulture)
## 哈莉·奎因的隐藏故事以及她如何成为超级英雄世界上最成功的女性（亚伯拉罕·里斯曼，秃鹫）
I’m not much of a comic book person, but I found myself engrossed in Abraham Riesman’s look at the history of the DC Entertainment character Harley Quinn, whose origins stem from a daytime soap actress and evolved to be one of the most fascinating female characters in comics.
我不太喜欢漫画书，但我发现自己全神贯注于亚伯拉罕·里斯曼 (Abraham Riesman) 对 DC 娱乐角色哈莉·奎因 (Harley Quinn) 的历史的看法，她的出身源于日间肥皂剧女演员，后来发展成为漫画中最迷人的女性角色之一。
As one writer put it, “Wonder Woman sort of represents perfection, whereas Harley represents everybody else.” I’m not sure if this story was read much aside from those already interested in the superhero genre, so I’ve selected it here.
正如一位作家所说，“神奇女侠在某种程度上代表了完美，而哈雷代表了其他所有人。”我不确定除了那些已经对超级英雄类型感兴趣的人之外，这个故事是否还有很多人读，所以我在这里选择了它。
Longreads Editor’s Pick: Julia Wick
长读编辑推荐：朱莉娅·威克
@Sherlyholmes
@谢利霍尔姆斯
## From Doubles Tennis to Internet Porn: My Year as a Supreme Court Clerk (Ted Cruz, Politico)
## 从双打网球到网络色情：我作为最高法院书记员的一年（Ted Cruz，Politico）
Listen, I’m a twenty-something yellow dog Democrat—about as un-pro Ted Cruz as they come—but I honestly can’t comprehend why more people weren’t obsessed with this story.
听着，我是一个二十多岁的黄狗民主党人——就像他们来的时候一样不支持特德·克鲁兹——但老实说，我无法理解为什么更多的人不沉迷于这个故事。
The piece, which recounts Cruz’s year as a clerk for then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, opens with Cruz standing behind Sandra Day O’Connor while they look at hard-core porn on a giant computer screen.
这篇文章讲述了克鲁兹作为时任首席大法官威廉·伦奎斯特 (William Rehnquist) 的书记员的一年，开头是克鲁兹站在桑德拉·戴·奥康纳 (Sandra Day O’Connor) 身后，他们在巨大的电脑屏幕上观看硬核色情内容。
It’s fun.
这很有趣。
It’s funny.
这很有趣。
It’s full of great details (Rehnquist wore “big wide ties with floral patterns and Hush Puppies,” Souter had an ascetic yogurt lunch routine, Breyer had a habit of talking loudly about pending cases in crowded restaurants, et al).
它充满了精彩的细节（伦奎斯特戴着“带有花卉图案和嘘小狗的宽大领带”，苏特有一个禁欲的酸奶午餐例行公事，布雷耶有在拥挤的餐馆大声谈论悬而未决的案件的习惯，等等）。
Was this ghostwritten or is Ted Cruz secretly kind of cool?
这是代笔还是特德·克鲁兹暗地里很酷？