The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2020
Our most popular exclusive stories of 2020.
我们 2020 年最受欢迎的独家故事。
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The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
美国大型猫科动物的奇异而危险的世界
Rachel Nuwer | Longreads | March 2020 | 28 minutes (7,033 words)
雷切尔·努维尔 |长读| 2020 年 3 月 | 28 分钟(7,033 字)
A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?
一起引人注目的雇佣谋杀阴谋揭露了美国珍奇动物饲养业的阴暗面。现在是否有足够的动力来改革该行业?
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Whatever Happened to ______ ?
______ 发生了什么事?
Anonymous | Longreads | January 2020 | 20 minutes (4,879 words)
匿名 |长读| 2020 年 1 月 | 20 分钟(4,879 字)
Envy over her success led her husband, also a writer, to become violent.
对她的成功的嫉妒导致她的丈夫(也是一名作家)变得暴力。
She fights every day for her safety — and to avoid being relegated to obscurity like so many writers who are mothers.
她每天都在为自己的安全而战,并避免像许多身为母亲的作家一样被贬为默默无闻。
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The Danger of Befriending Celebrities
与名人交朋友的危险
Michael Musto | Longreads | February 2020 | 8 minutes (2,000 words)
迈克尔·穆斯托 |长读| 2020 年 2 月 | 8 分钟(2,000 字)
Once upon a time, nightlife journalist Michael Musto didn’t set the strongest boundaries with the boldfaced names he covered.
曾几何时,夜生活记者迈克尔·穆斯托(Michael Musto)并没有为他所报道的黑体字设定最严格的界限。
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Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness
茶、饼干和帝国:英国性的长期骗局
Laurie Penny | Longreads | June 2020 | 21 minutes (5,360 words)
劳里·佩妮 |长读| 2020 年 6 月 | 21 分钟(5,360 字)
The soft-focus Britain of Downton Abbey bears little resemblance to the real Britain collapsing under the weight of racism, austerity, and COVID-19.
《唐顿庄园》中柔和焦点的英国与在种族主义、紧缩政策和新冠病毒 (COVID-19) 重压下崩溃的真实英国几乎没有什么相似之处。
As Brexit plods on, it’s time for an honest reckoning of the history and future of this outsize little island.
随着英国脱欧进展缓慢,是时候对这个巨大小岛的历史和未来进行诚实的清算了。
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Deconstructing Disney: The Princess Problem of ‘Frozen II’
解构迪士尼:《冰雪奇缘2》的公主问题
Jeanna Kadlec | Longreads | December 2019 | 10 minutes (3,028 words)
珍娜·卡德莱克 |长读| 2019 年 12 月 | 10 分钟(3,028 个字)
Audiences wanted Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend.
观众希望迪士尼给艾莎找个女朋友。
But the Frozen franchise is at the center of the corporation’s latest princess project, whose nationalist concerns are decidedly here for the gay agenda.
但《冰雪奇缘》系列是该公司最新公主项目的核心,该项目的民族主义担忧显然是为了同性恋议程。
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Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
臭名昭著的女王:卢克雷齐娅·博吉亚
Anne Thériault | Longreads | May 2020 | 33 minutes (8,371 words)
安妮·泰里奥 |长读| 2020 年 5 月 | 33 分钟(8,371 字)
History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.
历史可能将她视为文艺复兴时期意大利最臭名昭著的诱惑者,但现在是我们仔细观察费拉拉公爵夫人的时候了。
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What Happens If I Don’t Like Fiona Apple?
如果我不喜欢 Fiona Apple 会怎样?
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | May 2020 | 10 minutes (2,481 words)
索拉娅·罗伯茨|长读| 2020 年 5 月 | 10 分钟(2,481 字)
It seems like everyone in the world loves “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” So why don’t I?
似乎世界上每个人都喜欢“拿断线钳来”。那我为什么不呢?
On the isolation of disconnection.
关于断线隔离。
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The Bigamist’s Daughter
重婚者的女儿
Robin Antalek | Longreads | April 2020 | 18 minutes (4,599 words)
罗宾·安塔莱克 |长读| 2020 年 4 月 | 18 分钟(4,599 字)
Robin Antalek considers the legacy of the man who abandoned her for another family and never looked back.
罗宾·安塔莱克(Robin Antalek)思考着这个男人的遗产,这个男人为了另一个家庭抛弃了她,并且再也没有回头。
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How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
如何学习一切:大师班日记
Irina Dumitrescu | Longreads | August 2020 | 5,406 words (21 minutes)
伊琳娜·杜米特雷斯库 |长读| 2020 年 8 月 | 5,406 字(21 分钟)
A professor embarks on a six-month binge of celebrity-led online courses.
一位教授开始了为期六个月的由名人主导的在线课程。
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Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
果酱:英国人的痴迷
Olivia Potts | Longreads | July 2020 | 15 minutes (4,161 words)
奥利维亚·波茨|长读| 2020 年 7 月 | 15 分钟(4,161 字)
Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest.
斯科特船长带着罐子去了南极,埃德蒙·希拉里则带着罐子登上了珠穆朗玛峰。
Marmalade is part of the British national myth.
果酱是英国民族神话的一部分。
Livvy Potts wants to know why.
丽维·波茨想知道原因。
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The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona
亚利桑那州凤凰城的古代水道
Bruce Berger | A Desert Harvest | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | March 2019 | 25 minutes (4,980 words)
布鲁斯·伯杰 |沙漠丰收|法拉尔、斯特劳斯和吉鲁 | 2019 年 3 月 | 25 分钟(4,980 字)
To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D.
要了解这座庞大的沙漠城市,您必须了解它的运河,早在公元 1000 年,原住民就开始挖掘运河。
200.
200.
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Out There: On Not Finishing
在那里:关于未完成
Devin Kelly | Longreads | September, 2020 | 16 minutes (4,304 words)
德文·凯利 |长读| 2020 年 9 月 | 16 分钟(4,304 字)
What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
如果我们告诉自己的生活故事让我们感到孤独,并与意义作斗争,会发生什么?
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Shelved: Pink Floyd’s Household Objects
搁置:平克·弗洛伊德的家居用品
Tom Maxwell | Longreads | September 2020 | 13 minutes (3,433 words)
汤姆·麦克斯韦 |长读| 2020 年 9 月 | 13 分钟(3,433 字)
On Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.
关于 Syd Barrett 与 Pink Floyd 合作的时光,以及用家居用品和发现的声音制作一张专辑。
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The God Phone
神电话
Leora Smith | Longreads | January 2020 | 18 minutes (4,961 words)
莱奥拉·史密斯 |长读| 2020 年 1 月 | 18 分钟(4,961 字)
What happens when ordinary people play God to strangers?
当普通人在陌生人面前扮演上帝时会发生什么?
Leora Smith explores the history of one of the oldest art installations at Burning Man and the conversations that unfold there.
莱奥拉·史密斯 (Leora Smith) 探索了火人节最古老的艺术装置之一的历史以及在那里展开的对话。
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The Poke Paradox
波克悖论
Adam Skolnick | Longreads | February 2020 | 22 minutes (6,125 words)
亚当·斯科尔尼克 |长读| 2020 年 2 月 | 22 分钟(6,125 字)
Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.
美食的幸福与环境的危险相遇,以及如何解决美国的戳问题。
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Regarding the Pain of Oprah
关于奥普拉的痛苦
Soraya Roberts | Longreads | January 2020 | 8 minutes (2,233 words)
索拉娅·罗伯茨|长读| 2020 年 1 月 | 8 分钟(2,233 字)
She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet!
她得到了一座豪宅,她得到了一艘船,她得到了一架喷气式飞机!
And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.
你会遭受痛苦,然后也许会靠自己的力量振作起来,如果你足够幸运并且能够承受足够的私人痛苦的话。
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The Disease of Deceit
欺骗之病
Dvora Meyers | Longreads | January 2020 | 38 minutes (9,656 words)
德沃拉·迈耶斯 |长读| 2020 年 1 月 | 38 分钟(9,656 字)
Friends don’t let friends lie about having cancer.
朋友不会让朋友谎称患有癌症。
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How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England
四名美国人如何抢劫英格兰银行
Paul Brown | Longreads | June 2020 | 22 minutes (5,961 words)
保罗·布朗 |长读| 2020 年 6 月 | 22 分钟(5,961 字)
In Victorian London, a gang of U.S. hustlers attempts a ten-million-dollar heist on the safest bank in the world.
在维多利亚时代的伦敦,一伙美国骗子试图抢劫世界上最安全的银行,价值一千万美元。
Can the detective who inspired Sherlock Holmes catch them?
启发福尔摩斯灵感的侦探能抓住他们吗?
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Deconstructing Disney: Motherhood and the Taming of Maleficent
解构迪士尼:母性与沉睡魔咒的驯服
Jeanna Kadlec | Longreads | October 2020 | 3,234 words (12 minutes)
珍娜·卡德莱克 |长读| 2020 年 10 月 | 3,234 字(12 分钟)
Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+.
上周,《沉睡魔咒:邪恶女主人》在 Disney+ 上上映。
Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.
珍娜·卡德莱克借此机会探讨迪士尼如何应对他们最强大的女巫。
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Shades of Grey
灰色阴影
Ashley Stimpson | Longreads | October 2020 | 26 minutes (7,001 words)
阿什利·斯汀普森 |长读| 2020 年 10 月 | 26 分钟(7,001 字)
In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane.
2018 年,佛罗里达州民众以压倒性多数投票决定终止赛狗运动,他们被告知这项运动既过时又不人道。
What if they were wrong?
如果他们错了怎么办?
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The Criminalization of the American Midwife
美国助产士的刑事定罪
Jennifer Block | March 2020 | 32 minutes (8,025 words)
詹妮弗·布洛克 | 2020 年 3 月 | 32 分钟(8,025 字)
New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial.
纽约助产士伊丽莎白·卡特琳 (Elizabeth Catlin) 在即将到来的审判中面临 95 项个人重罪指控。
For what?
为了什么?
For doing her job.
为了做好她的工作。
Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.
政治和父权制使许多有资格、经验丰富的助产士的工作变得非法——这损害了妇女和服务不足的社区。
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The Endgame of the Olympics
奥运会的残局
Dvora Meyers | Longreads | August 2020 | 5,722 words (23 minutes)
德沃拉·迈耶斯 |长读| 2020 年 8 月 | 5,722 字(23 分钟)
What if the Olympic Games never come back?
如果奥运会再也不会回来怎么办?
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets
美丽事物的丑陋历史:挂坠盒
Katy Kelleher | Longreads | June 2020 | 19 minutes (4,853 words)
凯蒂·凯莱赫 |长读| 2020 年 6 月 | 19 分钟(4,853 字)
Lockets simultaneously display and hide.
挂坠盒同时显示和隐藏。
But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
但是,将我们的爱和悲伤藏在一件珠宝中,是否会保留我们的记忆和情感,或者将它们最小化?
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The Price of Dominionist Theology
统治主义神学的代价
Eve Ettinger | Longreads | January 2020 | 17 minutes (4,367 words)
伊芙·艾廷格 |长读| 2020 年 1 月 | 17 分钟(4,367 个字)
After leaving fundamentalism, Eve Ettinger grapples with the loaded theological heritage of evangelical personal finance teachings.
离开原教旨主义后,伊芙·埃丁格努力应对福音派个人理财教义中沉重的神学遗产。
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An Atlas of the Cosmos
宇宙地图集
Shannon Stirone | Longreads | October 2020 | 16 minutes (4,288 words)
香农·斯特罗内 |长读| 2020 年 10 月 | 16 分钟(4,288 个字)
We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy.
我们绘制了火星、月球、太阳系,甚至我们自己的星系的地图。
Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.
这意味着只有一件事需要以这种象征性的方式来理解,那就是整个宇宙。
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