Longreads Best of 2021: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2021.
整个 12 月，我们都会重点报道 Longreads 的 2021 年最佳作品。
Here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
以下是我们每周排名前 5 的电子邮件中被选为第一名的每个故事的列表。
If you like these, you can sign up to receive our weekly email every Friday.
如果您喜欢这些，您可以注册以每周五接收我们的每周电子邮件。
## — January —
## — 一月 —
## The American Abyss
## 美国深渊
Timothy Snyder | The New York Times Magazine | January 9, 2021 | 18 minutes
蒂莫西·斯奈德 |纽约时报杂志 | 2021 年 1 月 9 日 | 18分钟
“A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob, and what comes next.”
“一位研究法西斯主义和特朗普、暴徒以及接下来发生的事情的政治暴行的历史学家。”
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## The Doctor vs. #MeToo
## 医生 vs. #MeToo
Caitlin L.
凯特琳·L。
Chandler | Columbia Journalism Review | January 19, 2021 | 25 minutes
钱德勒|哥伦比亚新闻评论| 2021 年 1 月 19 日 | 25分钟
“How an HIV specialist in Germany is using media law to erase reporting of sexual abuse allegations against him.”
“德国的一位艾滋病毒专家如何利用媒体法来消除对他的性虐待指控的报道。”
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## The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine.
## 气候危机比您想象的更严重。
Here’s What Happens If You Try.
如果你尝试的话，会发生什么。
Elizabeth Weil | ProPublica | January 25, 2021 | 17 minutes
伊丽莎白·韦尔 | ProPublica | 2021 年 1 月 25 日 | 17分钟
“A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead.
“一位气候科学家花了数年时间试图让人们关注未来的灾难。
His wife is exhausted.
他的妻子已经筋疲力尽了。
His older son thinks there’s no future.
他的大儿子认为没有未来。
And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.”
除了他之外，没有人会使用他建造的室外厕所来减少他的碳足迹。”
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## — February —
## — 二月 —
## Luck, Foresight and Science: How an Unheralded Team Developed a COVID-19 Vaccine in Record Time
## 运气、远见和科学：一支默默无闻的团队如何在创纪录的时间内开发出 COVID-19 疫苗
Gus Garcia-Roberts, David Heath | USA Today | January 26, 2021 | 35 minutes
格斯·加西亚-罗伯茨、大卫·希思今日美国 | 2021 年 1 月 26 日 | 35分钟
Credit for the COVID-19 vaccine “belongs to a series of uncelebrated discoveries dating back at least 15 years – and a constellation of unsung scientists.”
COVID-19 疫苗的功劳“归功于至少可追溯到 15 年前的一系列不为人知的发现，以及一群无名科学家”。
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## Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It
## 奴隶制故事，来自奴隶制幸存者
Clint Smith | The Atlantic | February 9, 2021 | 29 minutes
克林特·史密斯 |大西洋 | 2021 年 2 月 9 日 | 29分钟
“The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.”
“联邦作家计划的叙述为我们的过去提供了极其罕见的联系。”
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## Dying on the Waitlist
## 在候补名单上死去
David Armstrong, Marshall Allen | ProPublica | February 18, 2021 | 22 minutes
大卫·阿姆斯特朗、马歇尔·艾伦 | ProPublica | 2021 年 2 月 18 日 | 22分钟
“In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t.”
“在洛杉矶县和全国各地，医生必须决定谁接受挽救生命的 COVID-19 治疗，谁不接受。”
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## Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
## 新疆监狱国家内部
Ben Mauk, Matt Huynh | The New Yorker | February 26, 2021 | 28 minutes
本·莫克、马特·黄 |纽约客 | 2021 年 2 月 26 日 | 28分钟
“Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.”
“中国迫害运动的幸存者揭示了破坏的范围。”
## — March —
## — 三月 —
## Did James Plymell Need to Die?
## 詹姆斯·普莱梅尔需要死吗？
Leah Sottile | High Country News | March 1, 2021 | 26 minutes
利亚·索蒂尔 | 利亚·索蒂尔高地国家新闻| 2021 年 3 月 1 日 | 26分钟
The toll of criminalizing homelessness in small cities and towns across the American West.
美国西部小城镇将无家可归定为犯罪的后果。
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## The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers
## 失去的一年：流行病给青少年带来了什么代价
Alec MacGillis | ProPublica | March 8, 2021 | 38 minutes
亚历克·麦吉利斯 | ProPublica | 2021 年 3 月 8 日 | 38分钟
“In Hobbs, New Mexico, the high school closed and football was cancelled, while just across the state line in Texas, students seemed to be living nearly normal lives.
“在新墨西哥州的霍布斯，高中关闭，足球比赛被取消，而在州界线另一边的德克萨斯州，学生们似乎过着几乎正常的生活。
Here’s how pandemic school closures exact their emotional toll on young people.”
以下是大流行学校关闭对年轻人造成的情感损失。”
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## Anti-Asian Violence Must Be a Bigger Part of America’s Racial Discourse
## 反亚裔暴力必须成为美国种族话语的重要组成部分
Alexander Chee | GEN Magazine | March 15, 2021 | 12 minutes
亚历山大·奇 | GEN 杂志 | 2021 年 3 月 15 日 | 12分钟
“White people still drive the narrative about Asian Americans.
“白人仍然推动着有关亚裔美国人的叙述。
We have yet to have control over our own stories.”
我们还无法控制自己的故事。”
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## The Coal Plant Next Door
## 隔壁的燃煤电厂
Max Blau | ProPublica | March 22, 2021 | 9,852 words
马克斯·布劳 | ProPublica | 2021 年 3 月 22 日 | 9,852 字
“Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill.
“在美国最大的燃煤发电厂附近，饮用水中出现了毒素，人们生病了。
Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs.”
数千页的内部文件显示了一家大型能源公司计划如何避免清理成本。”
## — April —
## — 四月 —
## How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City’s Failure on Homelessness
## 上西区的一家酒店如何体现了该市在无家可归问题上的失败
Megan Evershed | The New Republic | March 31, 2021 | 5,900 words
梅根·埃弗希德 |新共和 | 2021 年 3 月 31 日 | 5,900 字
During the pandemic, men housed at the Lucerne hotel have seen the worst side of New York’s self-described liberals.
在大流行期间，住在卢塞恩酒店的人们看到了纽约自称为自由主义者的最糟糕的一面。
They’ve also exposed a decades-long policy of neglect.
他们还揭露了长达数十年的忽视政策。
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## Poisoned
## 中毒
Eli Murray, Rebecca Woolington, Corey G.
伊莱·默里、丽贝卡·伍灵顿、科里·G.
Johnson | Tampa Bay Times | March 24, 2021 | 6,560 words
约翰逊 |坦帕湾时报 | 2021 年 3 月 24 日 | 6,560 字
“Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin.
“坦帕铅冶炼厂的数百名工人已接触到危险水平的神经毒素。
The consequences have been profound.”
其后果是深远的。”
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## Seeing in the Dark
## 在黑暗中看见
Breai Mason-Campbell | Pipe Wrench | April 13, 2021 | 5,129 words
布雷伊·梅森-坎贝尔|管钳 | 2021 年 4 月 13 日 | 5,129 字
“I have to wear all of these dolls, you see, so that Whiteness does not have to wear any.”
“你看，我必须戴上所有这些娃娃，这样白妮丝就不必戴任何娃娃了。”
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## How We Survived Covid-19 in Prison
## 我们如何在监狱中度过 Covid-19
Nicole Lewis | The Marshall Project | April 22, 2021 | 3,610 words
妮可·刘易斯 |马歇尔计划 | 2021 年 4 月 22 日 | 3,610 字
“At the start of the pandemic, we asked four incarcerated people to chronicle daily life with the coronavirus.” Bruce Bryant, Jennifer Graves, James Ellis, and Christopher Walker “reveal what they witnessed and how they coped with the chaos, fear, isolation and deaths.”
“在大流行开始时，我们要求四名被监禁者记录冠状病毒的日常生活。”布鲁斯·布莱恩特、詹妮弗·格雷夫斯、詹姆斯·埃利斯和克里斯托弗·沃克“揭示了他们所目睹的一切以及他们如何应对混乱、恐惧、孤立和死亡。”
## — May —
## — 五月 —
## ‘We are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid Catastrophe
## “我们正在目睹反人类罪”：阿伦达蒂·罗伊谈印度的新冠灾难
Arundhati Roy | The Guardian | April 28, 2021 | 5,369 words
阿兰达蒂·罗伊 |卫报| 2021 年 4 月 28 日 | 5,369 字
“The system has not collapsed.
“系统并没有崩溃。
The ‘system’ barely existed.
“系统”几乎不存在。
The government – this one, as well as the Congress government that preceded it – deliberately dismantled what little medical infrastructure there was.”
本届政府以及之前的国大党政府故意拆除了仅有的一点医疗基础设施。”
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## Teshuvah
## 特舒瓦
Peter Beinart | Jewish Currents | May 11, 2021 | 6,500 words
彼得·贝纳特 |犹太潮流| 2021 年 5 月 11 日 | 6,500 字
“For Jews to tell Palestinians that peace requires them to forget the Nakba is grotesque.
“对于犹太人来说，告诉巴勒斯坦人和平需要他们忘记大灾难，这是荒唐的。
In our bones, Jews know that when you tell a people to forget its past you are not proposing peace.
犹太人从骨子里知道，当你告诉一个民族忘记过去时，你并不是在提议和平。
You are proposing extinction.”
你正在提议灭绝。”
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## A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
## 阿贝德·萨拉马一生中的一天
Nathan Thrall | New York Review of Books | March 19, 2021 | 20,500 words
内森·萨尔 |纽约书评| 2021 年 3 月 19 日 | 20,500 字
“One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.”
“一个人寻找儿子的努力暴露了以色列统治下巴勒斯坦人生活的现实。”
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## Locked Out
## 被锁定
Desiree Stennett, Caroline Glenn | Orlando Sentinel | May 13, 2021 | 9,200 words
德西蕾·斯坦尼特、卡罗琳·格伦 |奥兰多哨兵 | 2021 年 5 月 13 日 | 9,200 字
A three-part investigative series about how the pandemic exposed Florida’s eviction crisis.
一个由三部分组成的调查系列，讲述流感大流行如何暴露佛罗里达州的驱逐危机。
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## — June —
## — 六月 —
## The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre
## 保存塔尔萨种族大屠杀故事的女性
Victor Luckerson | The New Yorker | May 28, 2021 | 2,882 words
维克多·卢克森 |纽约客 | 2021 年 5 月 28 日 | 2,882 字
“Today, the work done by Parrish in the nineteen-twenties and Gates in the nineteen-nineties forms the bedrock for books, documentaries, and a renewed reparations push that, a century after the massacre, is experiencing a groundswell of support.”
“今天，帕里什在 20 世纪 20 年代和盖茨在 19 世纪 90 年代所做的工作构成了书籍、纪录片和新的赔偿推动的基石，在大屠杀发生一个世纪后，这种推动正在经历巨大的支持。”
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## The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
## 国税局秘密文件：前所未见的记录宝藏揭示了最富有的人如何避免所得税
Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel | ProPublica | June 8, 2021 | 5,717 words
杰西·艾辛格、杰夫·恩斯特豪森、保罗·基尔 | ProPublica | 2021 年 6 月 8 日 | 5,717 字
“ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.”
“ProPublica 获得了大量国税局信息，显示像杰夫·贝佐斯、埃隆·马斯克和沃伦·巴菲特这样的亿万富翁与他们的巨额财富相比，缴纳的所得税很少——有时甚至什么也不缴纳。”
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## Kip Kinkel Is Ready to Talk
## 基普·金克尔 (Kip Kinkel) 已准备好讲话
Jessica Schulberg | HuffPost | June 13, 2021 | 15,200 words
杰西卡·舒尔伯格 |赫芬顿邮报 | 2021 年 6 月 13 日 | 15,200 字
“At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others.
“15 岁时，他开枪打死了自己的父母和学校的两名同学，并打伤了另外 25 人。
He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.”
从那时起，他就被用作终身监禁孩子的理由。”
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## Qualified Immunity: How ‘Ordinary Police Work’ Tramples Civil Rights
## 合格的豁免权：“普通警察工作”如何践踏公民权利
Lyle C.
莱尔 C.
May | Scalawag Magazine | June 23, 2021 | 2,807 words
五月 |无赖杂志 | 2021 年 6 月 23 日 | 2,807 字
“There is little to no accountability behind the closed doors of police work.”
“警察闭门工作后几乎没有问责制。”
## — July —
## — 七月 —
## The Night Gary Drove Me Home
## 加里开车送我回家的那晚
Jill McCabe Johnson | Slate | June 16, 2021 | 2,422 words
吉尔·麦凯布·约翰逊 |板岩| 2021 年 6 月 16 日 | 2,422 字
“It is not a normal thing to do—to acknowledge to yourself that you may have slept with a serial killer.”
“承认自己可能和连环杀手发生过关系，这不是一件正常的事情。”
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## The Future Dystopic Hellscape is Upon Us
## 未来的反乌托邦地狱景象即将来临
Sam Biddle | The Intercept | July 5, 2021 | 12,142 words
萨姆·比德尔 |拦截| 2021 年 7 月 5 日 | 12,142 字
“The rise and fall of the ultimate doomsday prepper.”
“终极末日准备者的兴衰。”
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## The Barn
## 谷仓
Wright Thompson | The Atlantic | July 22, 2021 | 7,350 words
赖特·汤普森 |大西洋 | 2021 年 7 月 22 日 | 7,350 字
“In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building.
“1955 年，黎明刚过，一辆雪佛兰卡车停在一座没有标志的建筑前。
A 14-year-old child was in the back.
后排坐着一名14岁的孩子。
Hi name was Emmett Till.”
你好，我叫埃米特·蒂尔。”
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## The Jessica Simulation: Love and Loss in the Age of A.I.
## 杰西卡模拟：人工智能时代的爱与失落
Jason Fagone | San Francisco Chronicle | July 23, 2021 | 10,801 words
杰森·法戈恩 |旧金山纪事报 | 2021 年 7 月 23 日 | 10,801 字
“The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear.
“他所爱的女人的死让他难以承受。
Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?”
一个神秘的网站可以让他再次和她说话吗？”
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## — August —
## — 八月 —
## The Fugitive and the Chameleon
## 逃犯与变色龙
Ciara O’Rourke | Deseret News | August 2, 2021 | 6,154 words
席亚拉·奥洛克 |沙漠新闻 | 2021 年 8 月 2 日 | 6,154 字
“Mario’s father had gone by many names.
“马里奥的父亲有很多名字。
Luis Archuleta.
路易斯·阿丘莱塔。
Lawrence Pusateri.
劳伦斯·普萨泰里.
The man the son knew as Ramon was just a fraction of his way into what may be one of the longest fugitive runs in U.S. history — a 50-year game of cat-and-mouse that played out across the West, from the streets of Colorado to the shores of California and many dusty, sun-bleached points in between.”
儿子认识的拉蒙只是美国历史上最长的逃亡之旅的一小部分——一场长达 50 年的猫捉老鼠游戏，横跨西部地区，从科罗拉多州的街道到加利福尼亚州的海岸，以及其间许多尘土飞扬、阳光照射下的地方。
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## What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
## 鲍比·麦克尔文留下了什么
Jennifer Senior | The Atlantic | August 9, 2021 | 13,254 words
詹妮弗高级|大西洋 | 2021 年 8 月 9 日 | 13,254 字
“Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11.”
“自 9/11 事件以来的二十年里，悲伤、阴谋论以及一个家庭对意义的追寻。”
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## Trying—and Failing—to Save the Family of the Afghan Who Saved Me
## 尝试拯救救了我的阿富汗人的家人，但失败了
David Rohde | The New Yorker | August 17, 2021 | 2,539 words
大卫·罗德 |纽约客 | 2021 年 8 月 17 日 | 2,539 字
“We saw the city full of these strange armed men.
“我们看到这座城市充满了这些奇怪的武装人员。
With strange clothing and hair styles.
有着奇怪的服装和发型。
We are back in the nineties, you can’t believe these people are back.” The last time the Taliban had seized power, in 1996, their reign had begun with relative calm, but they quickly started conducting house raids, making arrests, and inflicting other abuses.”
我们回到了九十年代，你简直不敢相信这些人又回来了。”塔利班上一次夺取政权是在 1996 年，他们的统治开始时相对平静，但他们很快就开始进行入室搜查、逮捕和其他虐待行为。”
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## How the State of California Failed Noah Cuatro
## 加利福尼亚州如何让诺亚·夸特罗 (Noah Cuatro) 失望
Matt Hamilton, Garrett Therolf | Los Angeles Times | August 19, 2021 | 5,000 words
马特·汉密尔顿、加勒特·塞罗夫 |洛杉矶时报 | 2021 年 8 月 19 日 | 5,000 字
“Before a 4-year-old boy’s killing, authorities wavered on rescuing him.”
“在一名 4 岁男孩被杀之前，当局在营救他方面犹豫不决。”
## — September —
## — 九月 —
## The Enduring Legacy of Elijah McClain’s Tragic Death
## 以利亚·麦克莱恩悲剧性死亡的不朽遗产
Robert Sanchez | 5280 Magazine | September 1, 2021 | 4,454 words
罗伯特·桑切斯 | 5280杂志| 2021 年 9 月 1 日 | 4,454 字
“In summer 2020, the nation’s attention turned to the killing of a 23-year-old Aurora man.
“2020 年夏天，全国的注意力转向了一名 23 岁奥罗拉男子被杀事件。
His death prompted a flood of more than 8,500 letters from outside the state of Colorado—all begging Governor Jared Polis for justice.
他的死引发了来自科罗拉多州以外地区的 8,500 多封信件，全都恳求州长贾里德·波利斯伸张正义。
We read every one.”
我们读了每一本。”
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## The Other Afghan Women
## 其他阿富汗妇女
Anand Gopal | The New Yorker | September 6, 2021 | 9,900 words
阿南德·戈帕尔 |纽约客 | 2021 年 9 月 6 日 | 9,900 字
“In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.”
“在农村，对平民无休止的杀戮让妇女们开始反抗声称帮助她们的占领者。”
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## Courtney’s Story*
## 考特尼的故事*
Diana Moskovitz | Defector | September 13, 2021 | 13,800 words
戴安娜·莫斯科维茨 |叛逃者| 2021 年 9 月 13 日 | 13,800 字
Diana Moskovitz’s investigation of Ohio State’s handling of domestic violence allegations against one of its football coaches centers the survivor, a young wife and mother named Courtney Smith.
戴安娜·莫斯科维茨（Diana Moskovitz）对俄亥俄州立大学对其一名橄榄球教练的家庭暴力指控的处理进行了调查，调查的焦点是幸存者，一位年轻的妻子和母亲，名叫考特尼·史密斯（Courtney Smith）。
It shows how some of the most powerful people in Ohio, and in college football, worked to protect themselves and their reputations, all at Smith’s expense.
它展示了俄亥俄州和大学橄榄球界的一些最有权势的人如何努力保护自己和自己的声誉，而这一切都是以史密斯为代价的。
In the dictionary, “Courtney’s Story” should be found under the listing for “damning.” —Seyward Darby
在字典中，“考特尼的故事”应该在“该死的”列表下找到。 ——西沃德·达比
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*需要订阅
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## My Time with Kurt Cobain
## 我和科特·柯本的时光
Michael Azerrad | The New Yorker| September 22, 2021| (7,102 words)
迈克尔·阿泽拉德 |纽约客| 2021 年 9 月 22 日| （7,102 字）
Music journalist Michael Azerrad’s piece about his friendship with Kurt Cobain is honest and lucid.
音乐记者迈克尔·阿泽拉德 (Michael Azerrad) 关于他与库尔特·柯本 (Kurt Cobain) 友谊的文章诚实而清晰。
Azerrad recounts a number of moments with the late Nirvana singer, starting with the first time they met in 1992, when he visits the small Los Angeles apartment Cobain shared with Courtney Love to interview him for Rolling Stone.
阿泽拉德讲述了与这位已故 Nirvana 歌手的许多时刻，从他们 1992 年第一次见面开始，当时他参观了柯本与考特尼·洛夫合住的洛杉矶小公寓，为《滚石》杂志采访了他。
As a journalist, Azerrad gains Cobain’s trust, and eventually goes on to write a book about the band, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, which was published in September 1993, the same month their third and final album, In Utero, was released.
作为一名记者，Azerrad 赢得了 Cobain 的信任，并最终写了一本关于乐队的书《Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana》，该书于 1993 年 9 月出版，同月发行了他们的第三张也是最后一张专辑《In Utero》。
Azerrad remembers encounters over the next few years — an epic show at the Reading Festival, a business dinner with executives (“the grownups,” as Cobain referred to them), tense moments between band members while on tour, flashes of Cobain’s heroin addiction.
阿泽拉德还记得接下来几年的遭遇——雷丁节上的一场史诗般的表演、与高管（柯本称他们为“成年人”）的商务晚宴、巡演时乐队成员之间的紧张时刻、柯本吸毒成瘾的瞬间。
My favorite bits, though, are Azerrad’s quiet, beautiful descriptions of Cobain away from the spotlight: the intimate hours the two spent in a Seattle hotel room as Cobain read Azerrad’s manuscript, and the time they wandered around an eerily empty downtown Dallas with daughter Frances, who was just 15 months old at the time.
不过，我最喜欢的部分是阿泽拉德在远离聚光灯的情况下对柯本的安静、美丽的描述：当柯本阅读阿泽拉德的手稿时，两人在西雅图酒店房间里度过了亲密的时光，还有他们和当时只有 15 个月大的女儿弗朗西斯在空荡荡的达拉斯市中心漫步的时光。
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands
——切里·卢卡斯·罗兰兹
## — October —
## — 十月 —
## They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith.
## 他们去圣经学院加深信仰。
Then They Were Assaulted—and Blamed for It.
然后他们遭到攻击并为此受到指责。
Becca Andrews | Mother Jones | September 30, 2021 | 8,500 words
贝卡·安德鲁斯 |琼斯妈妈 | 2021 年 9 月 30 日 | 8,500 字
“But you drank the alcohol, right?” he asked.
“但是你喝了酒，对吧？”他问道。
“What did you do to deserve to be hit?” That’s what Dean Timothy Arens of Moody Bible Institute asked student Anna Heyward when she described abuse, including rape, perpetrated by her boyfriend, who was also a student.
“你做了什么值得被打的事？”穆迪圣经学院的院长蒂莫西·阿伦斯 (Timothy Arens) 向学生安娜·海沃德 (Anna Heyward) 描述了她的男友（她也是学生）实施的虐待行为，包括强奸。
That’s just the tip of the iceberg: Becca Andrews’ investigation into the impact of “purity culture” on MBI’s response to reports of sexual abuse and harassment on campus is deep and far-reaching.
这只是冰山一角：贝卡·安德鲁斯 (Becca Andrews) 对“纯洁文化”对 MBI 对校园性虐待和性骚扰报告的反应的影响进行了深入而深远的调查。
It’s enough to make your blood boil.
足以让你热血沸腾。
Andrews exposes a robust culture of blaming victims and side-stepping accountability, all in the name of God.
安德鲁斯揭露了一种以上帝的名义指责受害者和逃避责任的强大文化。
She describes the weakening of Title IX protections at religious institutions under Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, which makes future Anna Heywards more vulnerable to judgment, humiliation, or worse at MBI, Liberty University, and other evangelical colleges.
她描述了特朗普教育部长贝特西·德沃斯(Betsy DeVos)领导下的宗教机构第九条保护的削弱，这使得未来的安娜·海沃兹(Anna Heywards)在MBI、自由大学和其他福音派学院更容易受到评判、羞辱，甚至更糟。
“All the women I spoke to who were survivors of sexual violence at Moody say they experienced …
“我采访过的所有穆迪性暴力幸存者女性都表示，她们经历过……
difficulty in finding the language to express what had happened, because it was impossible to see beyond the constraints imposed by Moody’s specific interpretation of Christianity,” Andrews writes.
很难找到语言来表达所发生的事情，因为不可能超越穆迪对基督教的具体解释所施加的限制，”安德鲁斯写道。
“It can be hard to recognize harassment when it is at the hands of a brother or a sister in Christ.” —SD
“当骚扰是来自基督里的弟兄或姐妹时，很难识别。” —SD
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## White Riot
## 白色骚乱
Laura Nahmias | New York Magazine | October 5, 2021 | 4,250 words
劳拉·纳米亚斯 |纽约杂志 | 2021 年 10 月 5 日 | 4,250 字
Did you know that in 1992, thousands of New York City cops rioted outside their own City Hall, shouting racist chants about the metropolis’ first-ever Black mayor, David Dinkins?
您是否知道，1992 年，数千名纽约市警察在自己的市政厅外发生骚乱，高喊针对该市首任黑人市长大卫·丁金斯 (David Dinkins) 的种族主义口号？
Neither did I.
我也没有。
This article refers to the riot as “forgotten” for good reason.
本文将这场骚乱称为“被遗忘”是有充分理由的。
But why did it slip from public memory?
但为什么它从公众记忆中消失了呢？
You could ask the same question about any number of events that have shaped the history of race and power in the United States, and find the same answers Laura Nahmias does in this fascinating story: entrenched power structures that bitterly resist change; a media apparatus that’s often complicit in maintaining the status quo; and a widespread inability among white Americans to view white violence as a real threat.
你可以对塑造美国种族和权力历史的许多事件提出同样的问题，并找到劳拉·纳米亚斯在这个引人入胜的故事中所做的相同答案：根深蒂固的权力结构，强烈抵制变革；经常串通一气维持现状的媒体机构；美国白人普遍无法将白人暴力视为真正的威胁。
“Somehow, police only identified 87 of the estimated 10,000 officers and their supporters who participated.
“不知何故，警方只确认了参与活动的大约 10,000 名警察及其支持者中的 87 人。
Just 42 faced disciplinary charges.
只有 42 人面临纪律指控。
And only two officers were suspended,” Nahmias writes.
只有两名警官被停职，”纳米亚斯写道。
In short, it’s easy to understand why today, “only some of what ailed the NYPD 30 years ago has been mended.” It’s also easy to understand why the same can be said about America.
简而言之，很容易理解为什么今天“只有一些 30 年前困扰纽约警察局的问题得到了修复”。也很容易理解为什么美国也会出现同样的情况。
—SD
—SD
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## A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering
## 经过同行评审的苦难肖像
Daniel Engber | The Atlantic | October 6, 2021 | 7,200 words
丹尼尔·恩格贝尔 |大西洋 | 2021 年 10 月 6 日 | 7,200 字
The best science stories are human stories, ones that show the impact of lab experiments, clinical investigations, and complicated data on people’s lives.
最好的科学故事是人类的故事，展示实验室实验、临床研究和复杂数据对人们生活的影响。
Daniel Engber’s poignant profile of the Sulzer family falls squarely in this camp.
丹尼尔·恩格贝尔 (Daniel Engber) 对苏尔寿家族的深刻描述正好属于这一阵营。
When three-year-old Liviana suffered a traumatic brain injury in the Sulzers’ backyard, her mother and father — a bioengineer who specializes in regenerative medicine and a professor of rehabilitative robotics, respectively — were forced to bring their work home.
当三岁的利维安娜在苏尔寿家后院遭受脑外伤时，她的母亲和父亲——分别是专门研究再生医学的生物工程师和康复机器人学教授——被迫把工作带回家。
They mustered their expertise to help Livie, but quickly met the limits of the technology they’d spent their careers developing and championing.
他们聚集了自己的专业知识来帮助 Livie，但很快就遇到了他们在职业生涯中开发和倡导的技术的局限性。
How, then, could they heal her, and themselves?
那么，他们怎样才能治愈她和他们自己呢？
The answers are surprising.
答案令人惊讶。
I was moved by Engber’s portrayal of scientific minds challenged to reconsider the lens through which they analyze the world; of a family navigating protracted trauma; and of the love, patience, and curiosity that keep the Sulzers’ hope alive.
恩格对科学思想的描绘令我感动，他们面临着重新考虑分析世界的视角的挑战；一个家庭正在经历长期的创伤；以及让苏尔寿家族保持希望的爱、耐心和好奇心。
—SD
—SD
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## The Last Days Inside Trailer 83
## 《最后的日子》预告片 83
Hannah Dreier | The Washington Post | October 17, 2021 | 4,400 words
汉娜·德雷尔 |华盛顿邮报 | 2021 年 10 月 17 日 | 4,400 字
Hannah Dreier spent a month on the ground reporting this story about a California couple on the verge of being kicked out of FEMA housing, their refuge in the wake of 2018’s devastating Camp Fire.
汉娜·德雷尔 (Hannah Dreier) 花了一个月的时间实地报道了这个故事，讲述了一对加利福尼亚夫妇在 2018 年毁灭性的营地火灾后，即将被赶出联邦紧急事务管理局 (FEMA) 住房的情况，这是他们的避难所。
With the clarity and compassion that are the hallmarks of her work, Dreier bears witness to what it means to suffer on the front lines of climate change, to grapple with a thinning social safety net, and — after all that — to stare down homelessness.
德雷尔作品的特点是清晰和富有同情心，她见证了在气候变化前线遭受苦难、应对日益薄弱的社会安全网以及——毕竟——面对无家可归者意味着什么。
She portrays the couple’s frustration and anger, as well as their love and resilience.
她描绘了这对夫妇的沮丧和愤怒，以及他们的爱和坚韧。
But why, Dreier asks, is this happening at all?
但德雷尔问道，为什么会发生这种情况？
Doesn’t the government owe the displaced more, and better, than this?
政府对流离失所者的亏欠不是比这更多、更好吗？
It’s a pressing question: More Americans will be soon displaced by fires, floods, and extreme weather.
这是一个紧迫的问题：更多的美国人将很快因火灾、洪水和极端天气而流离失所。
This is a quiet, intimate story, and seemingly small in scope, but don’t let it fool you — it offers a terrifying glimpse into the future.
这是一个安静、私密的故事，范围看似很小，但别让它欺骗了你——它让你对未来有了可怕的一瞥。
—SD
—SD
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## Has Witch City Lost Its Way?
## 女巫之城迷失了方向吗？
Kathryn Miles | Boston Magazine | October 22, 2021 | 3,758 words
凯瑟琳·迈尔斯 |波士顿杂志 | 2021 年 10 月 22 日 | 3,758 字
Modern-day witchcraft is big business, and Salem, Massachusetts, is its epicenter.
现代巫术是一门大生意，马萨诸塞州塞勒姆是其中心。
Witch-themed boutiques along Essex Street sell everything a 21st-century witch needs, from tarot card decks and spell kits to $300 custom wands.
埃塞克斯街上的女巫主题精品店出售 21 世纪女巫所需的一切，从塔罗牌、咒语套件到价值 300 美元的定制魔杖。
Stores like these cater not only to self-identifying witches and warlocks, but also Halloween tourists making their pilgrimage to the city each October and people claiming ancestral ties to Colonial settlers (or those accused as heretics in the 1692 trials).
此类商店不仅迎合自认是女巫和术士的顾客，还迎合每年 10 月前往这座城市朝圣的万圣节游客以及自称与殖民地定居者（或在 1692 年审判中被指控为异端者）有祖先联系的人们。
Kathryn Miles captures a festive, bustling local scene, but are shop owners simply commodifying a spiritual practice?
凯瑟琳·迈尔斯 (Kathryn Miles) 捕捉到了当地热闹的节日场景，但店主是否只是将一种精神实践商品化？
And is there a better way for Salem to address and educate people about its ugly past?
塞勒姆是否有更好的方法来解决和教育人们了解其丑陋的过去？
Miles’ own ancestral history is marked with a dark moment in 1660 — one that has left generations of her family to make sense of their legacy.
迈尔斯自己的祖先历史在 1660 年经历了一段黑暗时刻，这一时刻让她家族的几代人都开始理解他们的遗产。
She examines present-day Salem from this perspective, and asks: “Is a witch-based tourism economy the best way to honor the legacy of executed individuals who weren’t even witches in the first place?” With Halloween just days away, this Boston magazine story is a fitting read, and offers a glimpse into Salem’s lively community — as well as the past that it grapples with.
她从这个角度审视当今的塞勒姆，并问道：“以女巫为基础的旅游经济是纪念那些本来就不是女巫的被处决者的遗产的最佳方式吗？”距离万圣节只有几天了，这篇波士顿杂志的故事非常适合阅读，它让我们一睹塞勒姆充满活力的社区以及它所面对的过去。
—CLR
—CLR
## — November —
## — 十一月 —
## Homegrown and Homeless in Oakland*
## 奥克兰本地人和无家可归者*
Kevin Fagan, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Hepler, J.K.
凯文·费根、莎拉·拉瓦尼、劳伦·赫普勒、J.K.
Dineen | San Francisco Chronicle | November 3, 2021 | 4,639 words
迪宁|旧金山纪事报 | 2021 年 11 月 3 日 | 4,639 字
There’s not a major city in the state of California that hasn’t found itself grappling with a decade-long explosion of homelessness, and not a discussion that doesn’t devolve into blaming decades-older canards like deinstitutionalization and drug abuse.
加利福尼亚州的每一个主要城市都在努力应对长达十年的无家可归者激增问题，所有讨论都归咎于几十年前的谣言，例如去机构化和药物滥用。
But as this exhaustively and empathically reported piece shows, it’s never as simple as a talking point.
但正如这篇详尽而富有同理心的报道所表明的那样，它从来都不像一个谈话要点那么简单。
For the sixth in the Chronicle’s annual Homeless Project series, the paper crosses the Bay to profile four unhoused people in Oakland — all of whom grew up in the city, and all of whom owned their own home at one time.
这是《纪事报》年度无家可归者项目系列的第六篇文章，该论文跨越海湾，对奥克兰的四名无家可归者进行了介绍——他们都在这座城市长大，并且都曾经拥有自己的房子。
In their stories of loss and perseverance, accompanied by photography and data visualizations that are breathtaking for all the wrong reasons, we find ever-present reminders that there is no one cause for this epidemic.
在他们关于失落和坚持的故事中，伴随着因各种错误原因而令人惊叹的摄影和数据可视化，我们发现始终存在的提醒：这种流行病没有单一的原因。
The only universal, it seems, is the tragedy and struggle that ensues when this country fails its own citizens.
唯一普遍的似乎是当这个国家辜负了自己的公民时随之而来的悲剧和斗争。
—PR*Requires a subscription
—PR*需要订阅
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## “Judge, Lawyer, Help, Case Dismissed”
##“法官、律师、帮助、案件驳回”
George Chidi | The Intercept | October 31, 2021 | 8,064 words
乔治·奇迪 |拦截| 2021 年 10 月 31 日 | 8,064 字
This is a story of political indifference and a system woefully unequipped to truly help unhoused people with mental illness.
这是一个关于政治冷漠的故事，而且这个系统严重没有能力真正帮助患有精神疾病的无家可归者。
It is also the story of Harmony, a woman living on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia in her own filth, in a state that ranks 51st in the U.S. for investment in mental health spending.
这也是 Harmony 的故事，她是一名生活在佐治亚州亚特兰大街头的女性，生活在自己的肮脏之中，该州的心理健康支出投资在美国排名第 51 位。
“Harmony is unique,” writes George Chidi, “And yet there are at least 100 Harmonys on the streets of Atlanta.
“Harmony 是独一无二的，”George Chidi 写道，“然而亚特兰大的街道上至少有 100 个 Harmony。
The county knows each of them by name.
县里都知道他们每个人的名字。
There’s a list.” Harmony does not want to be in hospital or incarcerated; she does want her story told.
有一个清单。” Harmony 不想住院或被监禁；她确实希望讲述她的故事。
As Chidi grapples with Harmony’s living conditions, he unravels who might be able to help and who should be held accountable.
当奇迪努力解决和谐的生活条件时，他弄清楚了谁可以提供帮助以及谁应该承担责任。
And while various entities and government departments play “hot potato” with her life and liberty, Harmony’s wishes go mostly ignored.
尽管各种实体和政府部门拿她的生命和自由当“烫手山芋”，但哈莫尼的愿望却大多被忽视。
She would very much like to be left alone.
她非常想一个人呆着。
“And yet despite millions in resources, much of which the state cannot figure out how to spend, Harmony remained unhoused at the foot of the iconic Coca-Cola sign above the Walgreens at Five Points — in the heart of Atlanta — as she has on and off for years, in a state of abject human degradation, with all of this misery taking place less than 100 yards from the very steps of Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities headquarters.” —KS
“然而，尽管有数百万资源，其中大部分国家无法弄清楚如何使用，哈莫尼仍然无人居住在亚特兰大市中心五点沃尔格林店上方标志性的可口可乐标志脚下，多年来她一直断断续续地处于一种令人悲惨的人类退化状态，而所有这些痛苦都发生在距离佐治亚州行为健康和发育障碍部总部的台阶不到 100 码的地方。” —KS
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## 1.
## 1.
The Notorious Mrs. Mossler
臭名昭著的莫斯勒夫人
Skip Hollandsworth | Texas Monthly | November 17, 2021 | 12,033 words
跳过霍兰兹沃斯 |德克萨斯月刊| 2021 年 11 月 17 日 | 12,033 字
Candace Mossler, mother of six, was a Houston socialite who lived in a mansion with a steam-heated pool.
坎迪斯·莫斯勒 (Candace Mossler) 是六个孩子的母亲，是休斯敦的一位社交名流，住在一座带蒸汽温水游泳池的豪宅里。
She loved to throw lavish parties.
她喜欢举办奢华的派对。
Charm and philanthropy were the super powers Mossler used to divert attention from rumours of a double life that included sex work, running her own escort service, and a clandestine affair with Mel Powers, her then 22-year-old nephew.
莫斯勒用魅力和慈善事业来转移人们对双重生活传闻的注意力，这些谣言包括性工作、经营自己的应召服务，以及与她当时 22 岁的侄子梅尔·鲍尔斯的秘密恋情。
The affair was heinous enough, but did Mossler conspire to commit murder — more than once?
这件事已经够令人发指的了，但莫斯勒是否不止一次密谋谋杀？
For this surreal whodunnit — complete with a salacious sideshow trial — Skip Hollandsworth pored over pages of old news clips, court records, and interviewed aging people in Mossler’s orbit to attempt to find out.
在这部超现实侦探小说中，斯基普·霍兰兹沃斯仔细阅读了几页旧新闻剪辑、法庭记录，并采访了莫斯勒周围的老年人，试图找出答案。
“Rarely had circumstances converged to produce such a sensational story, one that, as the Houston Chronicle put it, was teeming with ‘love, heat, greed, savage passion, intrigue, incest and perversion.’” —KS
“很少有环境汇聚在一起产生如此耸人听闻的故事，正如《休斯顿纪事报》所说，这个故事充满了‘爱、热度、贪婪、野蛮的激情、阴谋、乱伦和变态。’”——KS
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## — December —
## — 十二月 —
## The American Prison System’s War on Reading
## 美国监狱系统的阅读战争
Alex Skopic | Protean | November 29th, 2021 | 2,300 words
亚历克斯·斯科皮克 |千变万化| 2021 年 11 月 29 日 | 2,300 字
You’ve almost certainly heard about the disingenuous furor over critical race theory and about attempts by conservative politicians to ban books from school libraries.
你几乎肯定听说过对批判种族理论的不真诚的愤怒，以及保守派政客试图禁止学校图书馆图书的行为。
But what about the war on reading being waged behind bars?
但是，在监狱里发动的阅读战争又如何呢？
States are restricting prisoners’ access to cheap used books, forcing those who wish to read to place full-priced orders with the likes of Barnes & Noble.
各州限制囚犯获得廉价二手书，迫使那些想阅读的人向巴诺书店等书店下全价订单。
Authorities have banned “urban” novels and Angela Davis, but seem to have no problem with Mein Kampf and The Turner Diaries.
当局禁止了“都市”小说和安吉拉·戴维斯，但似乎对《我的奋斗》和《特纳日记》没有任何问题。
Protean is a proudly leftist publication, and Alex Skopic is a proponent of prison abolition, but limiting people’s access to knowledge and ideas should also alarm more politically moderate readers.
《Protean》是一本引以为傲的左派出版物，亚历克斯·斯科皮克是废除监狱的支持者，但限制人们获取知识和思想也应该引起政治上温和的读者的警惕。
“Legitimate power does not fear discussion and study,” Skopic writes.
“合法权力不惧怕讨论和研究，”斯科皮克写道。
“Rather, the prohibition of those things is a tacit acknowledgment of its illegitimacy.” —SD
“相反，禁止这些事情就是默认其非法性。” —SD