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The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2018

2018 年 25 篇最受欢迎的长读独家报道
2018 年 25 篇最受欢迎的长读独家报道  ·  2019-01-02  ·  官方页

Our most popular exclusive stories of 2018.

我们 2018 年最受欢迎的独家故事。

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## 1.

## 1.

Who Does She Think She Is?

她认为她是谁?

Laurie Penny | Longreads | March 2018 | 23 minutes (5,933 words)

劳里·佩妮 |长读| 2018 年 3 月 | 23 分钟(5,933 字)

The internet does not hate women.

互联网并不讨厌女性。

People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity.

人们讨厌女性,而互联网让她们可以更快、更努力地做到这一点,而且不受惩罚。

## 2.

## 2.

No, I Will Not Debate You

不,我不会和你辩论

Laurie Penny | Longreads | September 2018 | 15 minutes (3,795 words)

劳里·佩妮 |长读| 2018 年 9 月 | 15 分钟(3,795 字)

Civility will never defeat fascism, no matter what The Economist thinks.

无论《经济学人》怎么想,文明永远无法击败法西斯主义。

## 3.

## 3.

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor

破产和贫穷之间的区别

Words by Erynn Brook | Illustrations by Emily Flake| Longreads | June 2018

艾琳·布鲁克 (Erynn Brook) 撰文 |艾米丽·弗莱克的插图|长读| 2018年6月

It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.

这是杂货店过道里的一种认可。

## 4.

## 4.

Peterson’s Complaint

彼得森的投诉

Laurie Penny | Longreads | July 2018 | 20 minutes (5,191 words)

劳里·佩妮 |长读| 2018 年 7 月 | 20 分钟(5,191 字)

There’s no use debating a feeling.

争论一种感觉是没有用的。

It’s time to change how we engage with Jordan Peterson.

是时候改变我们与乔丹·彼得森的互动方式了。

## 5.

## 5.

We’re Not Done Here

我们还没有完成

Laurie Penny | Longreads | January 2018 | 19 minutes (4,764 words)

劳里·佩妮 |长读| 2018 年 1 月 | 19 分钟(4,764 字)

How the #MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.

#MeToo 运动如何成为一场女权主义性革命。

## 6.

## 6.

Queens of Infamy: Anne Boleyn

臭名昭著的女王:安妮·博林

Anne Thériault | Longreads | May 2018 | 23 minutes (5,949 words)

安妮·泰里奥 |长读| 2018 年 5 月 | 23 分钟(5,949 字)

In Tudor England’s big-sleeved game of thrones, winning and dying were not mutually exclusive.

在都铎王朝的英格兰权力游戏中,胜利和死亡并不相互排斥。

## 7.

## 7.

Living with Dolly Parton

与多莉帕顿一起生活

Jessica Wilkerson | Longreads | October 2018 | 43 minutes (7,851 words)

杰西卡·威尔克森 |长读| 2018 年 10 月 | 43 分钟(7,851 字)

Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

提出困难的问题通常是要付出代价的。

## 8.

## 8.

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public

水门事件的后半段规模更大、更糟糕,并且被公众遗忘

David Montero | an excerpt adapted from Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network | Viking | November 2018 | 16 minutes (4,298 words)

大卫·蒙特罗 |摘录自《回扣:揭露全球企业贿赂网络》|维京人 | 2018 年 11 月 | 16 分钟(4,298 个字)

Watergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries.

水门事件揭露,跨国公司,包括一些最负盛名的美国品牌,不仅在国内而且在国外向政客行贿。

## 9.

## 9.

The Great Stink

大恶臭

Laurie Penny | Longreads | February 2018 | 17 minutes (4270 words)

劳里·佩妮 |长读| 2018 年 2 月 | 17 分钟(4270 字)

It’s time for men to stop worrying about who they are, and start thinking about what they do.

男人是时候停止担心自己是谁,而开始思考自己在做什么了。

## 10.

## 10.

The Death Row Book Club

死囚读书俱乐部

Anthony Ray Hinton | The Sun Does Shine | St. Martin’s Press | March 2018 | 14 minutes (3,745 words)

安东尼·雷·辛顿 |太阳确实照耀|圣马丁出版社| 2018 年 3 月 | 14 分钟(3,745 字)

When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.

当安东尼·雷·辛顿因两起他没有犯下的谋杀罪被判处死刑时,他利用自己的时间为死囚创建了一个读书俱乐部。

## 11.

## 11.

The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free

无主之民:海盗、逃亡者和为自由生活而奋斗

Joseph Kelly | an excerpt adapted from Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origins | Bloomsbury | October 2018 | 16 minutes (4,192 words)

约瑟夫·凯利 |摘录自《流亡:詹姆斯敦、沉船和美国起源新史》布卢姆斯伯里 | 2018 年 10 月 | 16 分钟(4,192 字)

In the “bizarre and horrifying world” of the early modern Caribbean, maroons and pirates both prized their freedom above all else.

在现代早期加勒比海这个“奇异而恐怖的世界”中,逃亡者和海盗都将自由看得高于一切。

And sometimes they worked together to safeguard it.

有时他们会共同努力来保护它。

## 12.

## 12.

The Great Online School Scam

伟大的在线学校骗局

Noliwe Rooks | Excerpt from Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education | The New Press | September 2017 | 18 minutes (5,064 words)

诺利维鲁克斯 |摘自《切割学校:私有化、种族隔离和公共教育的终结》新报界 | 2017 年 9 月 | 18 分钟(5,064 字)

Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.

学生的表现比以往任何时候都差,但私营公司却赚了数百万美元。

## 13.

## 13.

The Billionaire Philanthropist

亿万富翁慈善家

Jacob Silverman | Longreads | March 2018 | 9 minutes (2,268 words)

雅各布·西尔弗曼 |长读| 2018 年 3 月 | 9 分钟(2,268 字)

It’s American tradition for CEOs to stockpile their wealth, avoid taxes, and participate in the theater of giving.

首席执行官们储存财富、避税和参与捐赠是美国的传统。

Will Jeff Bezos make it scale?

杰夫·贝佐斯能否扩大规模?

## 14.

## 14.

Mr. Rogers vs. the Superheroes

罗杰斯先生与超级英雄

Maxwell King | An excerpt adapted from The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers | Abrams | September 2018 | 12 minutes (3,033 words)

麦克斯韦·金 |摘录自《好邻居:弗雷德·罗杰斯的生活与工作》|艾布拉姆斯| 2018 年 9 月 | 12 分钟(3,033 字)

One of the few things that could raise anger — real, intense anger — in Mister Rogers was the willful misleading of children.

为数不多的可能引起罗杰斯先生愤怒——真正的、强烈的愤怒——的事情之一就是故意误导儿童。

Superheroes, he thought, were the worst culprits.

他认为,超级英雄是罪魁祸首。

## 15.

## 15.

The Tyrant and His Enablers

暴君和他的使者

Stephen Greenblatt | Excerpt adapted from Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | W.

斯蒂芬·格林布拉特 |摘自暴君:莎士比亚的政治| W.

W.

W.

Norton & Company | May 2018 | 14 minutes (3,827 words)

诺顿公司| 2018 年 5 月 | 14 分钟(3,827 个字)

How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?

整个国家怎么可能落入暴君之手?

According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.

根据莎士比亚的说法,如果没有广泛的共谋,这一切就不可能发生。

## 16.

## 16.

The Encyclopedia of the Missing

失踪者百科全书

Jeremy Lybarger | Longreads | January 2018 |17 minutes (4,160 words)

杰里米·莱巴格 |长读| 2018 年 1 月 |17 分钟(4,160 字)

She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country.

她负责监视该国最大的失踪人员数据库之一。

For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.

对于梅根·古德来说,失踪的人仍然在这里,你只需要知道去哪里寻找即可。

## 17.

## 17.

Queens of Infamy: Eleanor of Aquitaine

臭名昭著的女王:阿基坦的埃莉诺

Anne Thériault | Longreads | April 2018 | 16 minutes (4,246 words)

安妮·泰里奥 |长读| 2018 年 4 月 | 16 分钟(4,246 个字)

Life gets busy when you have empires to build and marriages to annul.

当你要建立帝国、要废除婚姻时,生活就会变得忙碌。

## 18.

## 18.

Bundyville

邦迪维尔

Leah Sottile | Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting | May 2018

利亚·索蒂尔 | 利亚·索蒂尔长读和俄勒冈州公共广播| 2018年5月

Cliven Bundy and his sons led two armed standoffs against the federal government and beat them twice in court.

克莱文·邦迪和他的儿子们领导了两次针对联邦政府的武装对峙,并在法庭上两次击败他们。

The Bundys and their supporters see themselves as Patriots fighting government overreach.

邦迪家族及其支持者将自己视为与政府越权斗争的爱国者。

Others see them as domestic terrorists rallying extremists and conspiracy theorists to their side.

其他人则认为他们是国内恐怖分子,将极端分子和阴谋论者聚集到自己一边。

What is the truth?

真相是什么?

## 19.

## 19.

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume

美丽事物的丑陋历史:香水

Katy Kelleher | Longreads | September 2018 | 15 minutes (3,859 words)

凯蒂·凯莱赫 |长读| 2018 年 9 月 | 15 分钟(3,859 字)

Sometimes it takes a touch of darkness to create something alluring.

有时需要一点黑暗才能创造出诱人的东西。

## 20.

## 20.

Meet the New Mormons

认识新摩门教徒

Sarah Scoles| Longreads | June 2018 | 23 minutes (5,714 words)

莎拉·斯科尔斯|长读| 2018 年 6 月 | 23 分钟(5,714 字)

Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint?

有可能成为酷儿、左撇子和后期圣徒吗?

After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.

离开教会后,莎拉·斯科尔斯开始了解自由派摩门教徒。

## 21.

## 21.

The Neanderthal

尼安德特人

Jen Gilman Porat | Longreads | December 2018 | 14 minutes (3,447 words)

珍·吉尔曼·波拉特 | Jen Gilman Porat长读| 2018 年 12 月 | 14 分钟(3,447 个字)

Jen Gilman Porat seeks a genetic excuse for her husband’s barbaric table manners.

珍·吉尔曼·波拉特 (Jen Gilman Porat) 为丈夫野蛮的餐桌礼仪寻找遗传借口。

## 22.

## 22.

Welcome to the Center of the Universe

欢迎来到宇宙中心

Shannon Stirone | Longreads | March 2018 | 22 minutes (5,546 words)

香农·斯特罗内 |长读| 2018 年 3 月 | 22 分钟(5,546 字)

For the men and women who use the Deep Space Network to talk to the heavens, failure is not an option.

对于使用深空网络与天空对话的男男女女来说,失败不是一个选择。

## 23.

## 23.

Is This the Most Crowded Island in the World?

这是世界上最拥挤的岛屿吗?

(And Why That Question Matters)

(以及为什么这个问题很重要)

Alex MacGregor | Longreads | February 2018| 19 minutes (5,053 words)

亚历克斯·麦格雷戈 |长读| 2018年2月| 19 分钟(5,053 字)

An amateur geographer travels to an undocumented island off the coast of Haiti after stumbling upon it on Google Earth.

一名业余地理学家在 Google 地球上偶然发现了海地海岸附近的一个无证岛屿,随后前往该岛。

## 24.

## 24.

You’ve Reached the Winter of Our Discontent

你已经到了我们不满的冬天

Rebecca Schuman | Longreads | March 2018 | 9 minutes (2,305 words)

丽贝卡·舒曼 |长读| 2018 年 3 月 | 9 分钟(2,305 字)

A half-assed elegy for the Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen-X cinema.

为 X 世代电影中酷失败者梦想男孩的半途而废的挽歌。

## 25.

## 25.

On Not Being Able to Read

论无法读书

Tajja Isen | Longreads | August 2018 | 14 minutes (3,869 words)

塔贾·伊森 |长读| 2018 年 8 月 | 14 分钟(3,869 字)

“In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore.

“在法学院,他们告诉我我将无法再读书了。

That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.”

文本的乐趣,就像非法律学位的情人一样,对我来说会慢慢变得不透明。”

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