Time's Radhika Jones: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Radhika Jones is executive editor of Time.
拉迪卡·琼斯是《时代》杂志的执行主编。
I got to work on a number of great longreads at Time this year, among them Lev Grossman on fan fiction, Kate Pickert on the perils of cancer screening, and Kurt Andersen on the Year of the Protester.
今年，我在《时代》杂志上写了一些很棒的长篇读物，其中包括列夫·格罗斯曼（Lev Grossman）的同人小说、凯特·皮克特（Kate Pickert）关于癌症筛查的危险，以及库尔特·安德森（Kurt Andersen）关于抗议者之年的文章。
But these are a few of the pieces from other venues that have stuck with me.
但这些是其他地方的一些让我印象深刻的作品。
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“And I Should Know,” by Roseanne Barr, New York
“我应该知道”，作者：Roseanne Barr，纽约
I didn’t follow the great Charlie Sheen meltdown of spring 2011.
我没有关注 2011 年春天查理·辛 (Charlie Sheen) 的崩溃。
But I read every word of Roseanne Barr’s Sheen-inspired treatise on sitcom fame, in which she opens a window onto the warped and warping world of celebrity.
但我读了罗珊娜·巴尔 (Roseanne Barr) 受辛启发而写的关于情景喜剧名声的论文中的每一个字，她在其中打开了一扇通往扭曲的名人世界的窗户。
It was a brilliant assignment, sharply executed and highly entertaining.
这是一项出色的任务，执行得非常犀利，而且非常有趣。
“It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!” by Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
“这就是经济，笨蛋！”作者：迈克尔·刘易斯，《名利场》
This is about the most exhilarating piece of business writing I have ever read, mostly thanks to Lewis’s summary of the trope of shit in German culture and its relation to the European financial crisis, which I found both hilarious and totally plausible.
这是我读过的最令人兴奋的商业写作，这主要归功于刘易斯对德国文化中的狗屎比喻及其与欧洲金融危机的关系的总结，我觉得这既搞笑又完全合理。
It was like stumbling into a graduate seminar on formalist readings of macroeconomics textbooks.
这就像无意中进入了一场关于宏观经济学教科书的形式主义阅读的研究生研讨会。
I mean that in a really good way.
我的意思是，以一种非常好的方式。
“Changing Times,” by Ken Auletta, The New Yorker
《时代变迁》，肯·奥莱塔，《纽约客》
There’s nothing flashy or attention-seeking about Ken Auletta’s profile of Jill Abramson; it makes my top five because I found it fascinating to watch a picture of her emerge from the figure she cuts in the workplace.
肯·奥莱塔 (Ken Auletta) 对吉尔·艾布拉姆森 (Jill Abramson) 的简介没有任何华而不实或引人注目的地方。它之所以能跻身我的前五名，是因为我发现看到她在工作场所的照片中展现出来是很有趣的。
It emerges slowly—you have to wade through a lot of meetings—but Auletta was smart to go for inspirational at the outset: as a woman in publishing, I felt invested in Abramson’s rise and in the way she’s cultivated authority, intelligence and ambition.
它的出现很慢——你必须费力地参加很多会议——但奥莱塔很聪明，从一开始就寻求灵感：作为一名出版界女性，我对艾布拉姆森的崛起以及她培养权威、智慧和雄心的方式感到投入。
“A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs,” by Mona Simpson, The New York Times
《纽约时报》莫娜·辛普森的《姐妹为史蒂夫·乔布斯致悼词》
We all read a ton about Steve Jobs in the days after his death.
在史蒂夫·乔布斯去世后的几天里，我们都读了很多关于他的文章。
Then Mona Simpson’s eulogy came along, reinvented the Jobs memoriam and blew the competition away.
随后，莫娜·辛普森 (Mona Simpson) 发表了悼词，重塑了乔布斯的悼念模式，并在竞争中脱颖而出。
It was elegant, personal and lovingly attentive to detail—a tribute perfectly fitted to the man it honored.
它优雅、个性化，并且对细节充满爱意——这是对它所尊敬的人的完美致敬。
He was very lucky to have a writer for a sister.
他很幸运，有一位姐姐是作家。
“Cincinnati,” by James Pogue, n+1
《辛辛那提》，詹姆斯·波格 (James Pogue)，n+1
I grew up in Cincinnati, back when WKRP was on the air and Jerry Springer was the mayor.
我在辛辛那提长大，当时 WKRP 正在播出，杰瑞·斯普林格 (Jerry Springer) 担任市长。
It’s a city of in-betweens, and James Pogue’s rambling, evocative essay in n+1 captures its contradictions perfectly.
这是一座介于两者之间的城市，詹姆斯·波格 (James Pogue) 在《n+1》中那篇漫无目的、令人回味的文章完美地捕捉了它的矛盾。
I love the idea of a piece whose main goal is to take you somewhere else—in geography, in history and in memory.
我喜欢这篇文章的想法，它的主要目标是带你去其他地方——地理、历史和记忆。
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Share your own Top 5 Longreads of 2011, all through December.
整个 12 月，分享您自己的 2011 年 5 首长读作品。
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只需在 Twitter、Tumblr 或 Facebook 上标记#longreads 即可。