The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2019
Our most popular exclusive stories of 2019.
我们 2019 年最受欢迎的独家故事。
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The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People
失去朋友和疏远他人的艺术
Laura Lippman | Longreads | November 2019 | 17 minutes (4,147 words)
劳拉·李普曼 |长读| 2019 年 11 月 | 17 分钟（4,147 个字）
Laura Lippman, admittedly a rotten friend, is bummed by the ways in which friendships end as one gets older.
劳拉·利普曼（Laura Lippman）无疑是一位糟糕的朋友，她对友谊随着年龄的增长而结束的方式感到沮丧。
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Atlantic City Is Really Going Down This Time
大西洋城这次真的要垮了
Rebecca McCarthy | Longreads | February 2019 | 14 minutes (3,579 words)
丽贝卡·麦卡锡 |长读| 2019 年 2 月 | 14 分钟（3,579 字）
There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under.
毫无疑问，大西洋城正在走向衰落。
The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?
剩下的唯一问题是：整个城市能否将其遗体捐献给科学？
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Whole 60
全60
Laura Lippman | Longreads | July 2019 | 15 minutes (3,660 words)
劳拉·李普曼 |长读| 2019 年 7 月 | 15 分钟（3,660 字）
The Laura Lippman plan requires that you eat whatever you want whenever you want to eat it, and declare yourself beautiful.
劳拉·李普曼计划要求你想吃什么就吃什么，并宣称自己很美丽。
We’re not going to lie — it’s really hard.
我们不会撒谎——这真的很难。
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Game of Crones
老太婆的游戏
Laura Lippman | Longreads | May 2019 | 16 minutes (4,090 words)
劳拉·李普曼 |长读| 2019 年 5 月 | 16 分钟（4,090 字）
It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s.
在 50 多岁时成为一名母亲并不完全是劳拉·利普曼 (Laura Lippman) 的想法。
But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
但当事情发生时，她用力靠了过去。
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Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion
让你大吃一惊：约翰和保罗失去的团聚
David Gambacorta | Longreads | June 2019 | 20 minutes (5,128 words)
大卫·甘巴科塔 |长读| 2019 年 6 月 | 20 分钟（5,128 个字）
Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time.
披头士乐队解散五年后，在一段充满激烈争吵的时期，列侬和麦卡特尼抛开了分歧，再次重归于好。
Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.
1974 年 5 月录音期间的欢乐气氛。
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The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store
将拯救你附近的杂货店的人
Joe Fassler | The New Food Economy & Longreads | April 2019 | 8,802 words (33 minutes)
乔·法斯勒 |新食品经济与长读| 2019 年 4 月 | 8,802 字（33 分钟）
American food supplies are increasingly channeled through a handful of big companies: Amazon, Walmart, FreshDirect, Blue Apron.
美国的食品供应越来越多地通过几家大公司进行渠道：亚马逊、沃尔玛、FreshDirect、Blue Apron。
What do we lose when local supermarkets go under?
当当地超市倒闭时我们会损失什么？
A lot — and Kevin Kelley wants to stop that.
很多——凯文·凯利想阻止这种情况。
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Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream?
追求梦想是否太晚了？
Matt Giles | Longreads | March 2019 | 28 minutes (6,730 words)
马特贾尔斯|长读| 2019 年 3 月 | 28 分钟（6,730 字）
Dan Stoddard believes there is room in the NBA for a 42-year-old rookie.
丹·斯托达德相信 NBA 中有空间容纳 42 岁的新秀。
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A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground
为期三天的徒步穿越巴黎地下探险之旅
Will Hunt | An excerpt from Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet | Spiegel & Grau | January 2019 | 26 minutes (6,748 words)
威尔·亨特|摘自《地下：我们脚下世界的人类历史》|明镜与格劳 | 2019 年 1 月 | 26 分钟（6,748 字）
Journalist Will Hunt, who made the crossing with a group of urban explorers, recounts being menaced by rainwater and rats — and meeting fellow subterranean wanderers along the way.
与一群城市探险家一起穿越的记者威尔·亨特讲述了自己受到雨水和老鼠的威胁，并沿途遇到了其他地下流浪者。
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Bundyville: The Remnant
邦迪维尔：遗迹
Leah Sottile | Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting | July 2019 | 155 minutes (38,855 words)
利亚·索蒂尔 | 利亚·索蒂尔长读和俄勒冈州公共广播| 2019 年 7 月 | 155 分钟（38,855 字）
Bundyville: The Remnant, a co-production between Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting, explores the world beyond the Bundy family and the armed uprisings they inspired.
《邦迪维尔：遗迹》是 Longreads 和俄勒冈州公共广播公司的联合制作，探索邦迪家族及其引发的武装起义之外的世界。
This series investigates extremist violence that results from the conspiracy theories of the anti-government movement, who is inspiring that violence and who stands to benefit.
本系列调查反政府运动阴谋论导致的极端主义暴力，谁在煽动这种暴力，谁将从中受益。
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To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time
悲伤就是承载另一个时间
Matthew Salesses | Longreads | April 2019 | 11 minutes (2,630 words)
马修·塞莱斯 |长读| 2019 年 4 月 | 11 分钟（2,630 字）
Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.
马修·塞莱斯（Matthew Salesses）考虑了妻子的去世和其他因素对他作为人类穿越第四维度的经历的影响。
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Whiteness on the Couch
沙发上的白色
Natasha Stovall | Longreads | August 2019 | 28 minutes (7,061 words)
娜塔莎·斯托瓦尔 |长读| 2019 年 8 月 | 28 分钟（7,061 字）
Clinical psychologist Natasha Stovall looks at the vast spectrum of white people problems, and why we never talk about them in therapy.
临床心理学家娜塔莎·斯托瓦尔（Natasha Stovall）研究了白人的广泛问题，以及为什么我们在治疗中从不谈论这些问题。
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I’m 72.
我72岁了。
So What?
那又怎样？
Catherine Texier | Longreads | October 2019 | 22 minutes (5,425 words)
凯瑟琳·泰克西尔 |长读| 2019 年 10 月 | 22 分钟（5,425 字）
Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.
凯瑟琳·特克西尔（Catherine Texier）反对社会对老年女性的过时观念，在那些决心在生命的最后几十年中保持活力和影响力的人中占据一席之地。
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The Caviar Con
鱼子酱骗局
David Gauvey Herbert | Longreads | February 2019 | 15 minutes (3,739 words)
大卫·高维·赫伯特 |长读| 2019 年 2 月 | 15 分钟（3,739 字）
When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build case against them.
当热衷于鱼子酱的东欧人涌向密苏里州华沙，从一种脆弱的鱼类中偷取鱼卵时，联邦探员进行了卧底行动，花了两年时间对他们立案侦查。
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Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents
汤姆·佩蒂有问题的专辑《南方口音》
Michael Washburn | Southern Accents | Bloomsbury Academic | April 2019 | 20 minutes (3,222 words)
迈克尔·沃什伯恩 |南方口音|布卢姆斯伯里学术 | 2019 年 4 月 | 20 分钟（3,222 个字）
In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
1985 年，摇滚乐中最受欢迎的词曲作者之一因对南方身份的狭隘观念而犯下了令人遗憾的错误。
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How I Became ‘Rich’
我如何变得“富有”
Stacy Torres | Longreads | June 2019 | 11 minutes (2,629 words)
史黛西·托雷斯 |长读| 2019 年 6 月 | 11 分钟（2,629 字）
During a rare opportunity to vacation in Hawai’i, Stacy Torres is forced to confront her status as better off than where she came from.
在一次难得的去夏威夷度假的机会中，史黛西·托雷斯被迫面对自己的处境，她的处境比她的家乡要好。
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The Hunt for Planet Nine
寻找九号行星
Shannon Stirone | Longreads | January 2019 | 37 minutes (9,047 words)
香农·斯特罗内 |长读| 2019 年 1 月 | 37 分钟（9,047 字）
What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
怎样才能找到太阳系中最大的失踪天体？
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How the Cosby Story Finally Went Viral — And Why It Took So Long
科斯比的故事如何最终走红——以及为什么花了这么长时间
Nicole Weisensee Egan | An excerpt adapted from Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad | Seal Press | 14 minutes (3,614 words)
妮可·维森西·伊根 | Nicole Weisensee Egan摘录自《追逐考斯比：美国爸爸的垮台》|密封压机| 14 分钟（3,614 字）
A journalist who reported on the accusations long before they went viral wonders, “What kind of profession am I in, where stories have no logical reason for unfolding?”
一位在这些指控迅速走红之前就报道过的记者不禁感叹：“我从事的是什么样的职业，故事的展开没有逻辑依据？”
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Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women
Yentl 综合症：针对女性的致命数据偏见
Caroline Criado Perez | An excerpt adapted from Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Harry N.
卡罗琳·克里亚多·佩雷斯 | 卡罗琳·克里亚多·佩雷斯摘录自《隐形女性：专为男性设计的世界中的数据偏见》哈里·N.
Abrams | 22 minutes (5,929 words)
艾布拉姆斯| 22 分钟（5,929 字）
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.
医学以男性身体为基础，但研究人员开始意识到两性之间疾病症状的差异有多大，以及女性面临的危险有多大。
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Cut From the Same Cloth
从同一块布上剪下来
Myfanwy Tristram | Longreads | September 2019 | 14 minutes (3,863 words)
米凡威·崔斯特瑞姆 |长读| 2019 年 9 月 | 14 分钟（3,863 字）
Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.
艺术家米凡维·崔斯特瑞姆 (Myfanwy Tristram) 对她十几岁的女儿的极端时尚感到恼火，直到她用插图探索了这些时尚的起源。
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On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness
论洪水：让文化淹没在千篇一律之中
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | March 2019 | 7 minutes (2,006 words)
索拉娅·罗伯茨|长读| 2019 年 3 月 | 7 分钟（2,006 字）
Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.
洪水（v.）：同一故事讲述者在同一时间释放出大量相同的故事，使得除了少数人之外的任何人几乎不可能浮出水面。
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Total Depravity: The Origins of the Drug Epidemic in Appalachia Laid Bare
彻底堕落：阿巴拉契亚毒品泛滥的根源被揭开
Richard Cooke | Excerpt from Tired of Winning: A Chronicle of American Decline | Black Inc. Books | May 2019 | 21 minutes (5,527 words)
理查德·库克 |摘自《厌倦胜利：美国衰落编年史》布莱克公司图书 | 2019 年 5 月 | 21 分钟（5,527 个字）
Australian journalist Richard Cooke reports on the American opioid crisis through the astonished eyes of a foreigner visiting steel and coal country.
澳大利亚记者理查德·库克通过一位访问钢铁和煤炭国家的外国人的惊讶眼睛报道了美国的阿片类药物危机。
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When Did Pop Culture Become Homework?
流行文化何时成为家庭作业？
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | April 2019 | 6 minutes (1,674 words)
索拉娅·罗伯茨|长读| 2019 年 4 月 | 6 分钟（1,674 字）
When art is a should or a must or a have to, when we turn it into a chore, it is the opposite of what art is supposed to be.
当艺术是应该的、必须的或不得不做的时候，当我们把它变成一件苦差事时，它就与艺术的本来面目背道而驰了。
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‘Nothing Kept Me Up At Night the Way the Gorgon Stare Did.’
“没有什么能像蛇发女妖的凝视那样让我彻夜难眠。”
Sam Jaffe Goldstein | Longreads | June 2019 | 15 minutes (3,946 words)
萨姆·贾菲·戈尔茨坦 | Sam Jaffe Goldstein长读| 2019 年 6 月 | 15 分钟（3,946 字）
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you.
Gorgon Stare 是一种军用无人机监视技术，可以同时跟踪多个移动目标，即将来到您附近的城市。
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Reading Lessons
阅读课
Irina Dumitrescu | How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound | punctum books | July 2019 | 12 minutes (3,118 words)
伊琳娜·杜米特雷斯库 |我们如何阅读：故事、愤怒、虚无、声音 |刺点书籍| 2019 年 7 月 | 12 分钟（3,118 个字）
You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
你永远不会停止学习如何阅读——可能是因为你也永远不会停止忘记如何阅读。
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The Cost of Reading
阅读的成本
Ayşegül Savas | Longreads | July 2019 | 15 minutes (3,811 words)
艾谢古尔·萨瓦斯 |长读| 2019 年 7 月 | 15 分钟（3,811 字）
Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
艾谢古尔·萨瓦什（Ayşegül Savaş）思考了女性和男性时间的价值方式，以及女性作家在文学公民身份方面所承担的不平衡负担。
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