Writer Maria Bustillos: My Top Longreads of 2011
Maria Bustillos is a journalist who writes frequently for The Awl.
玛丽亚·布斯蒂洛斯 (Maria Busstillos) 是一名记者，经常为 The Awl 撰稿。
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The power of Allison Benedikt’s “Life After Zionist Summer Camp” (The Awl) derives from the purity of its point of view, which is that of one person’s lived experience, minutely and honestly detailed.
艾莉森·贝内迪克特（Allison Benedikt）的《犹太复国主义夏令营后的生活》（锥子）的力量源于其观点的纯粹性，这是一个人的生活经历，细致而诚实地详细描述。
Benedikt swings gracefully between humor and searing candor in this account of her growing ambivalence toward the religious, political and cultural institutions she’d grown up taking for granted.
贝内迪克特在幽默和极度坦率之间优雅地摇摆，讲述了她对她从小就认为理所当然的宗教、政治和文化机构日益增长的矛盾心理。
It’s a high-wire act of great elegance and sensitivity that will stay with me for a long time to come.
这是一种极其优雅和敏感的走钢丝行为，将在未来很长一段时间内伴随着我。
In “The Fire This Time” (Los Angeles Review of Books) Reza Aslan likewise makes a compelling case in opposition to conventional wisdom.
在《这一次的火灾》（《洛杉矶书评》）中，礼萨·阿斯兰同样提出了一个反传统观点的令人信服的案例。
I thought it by far the best of the 9/11 pieces that came out on the 10th anniversary of the catastrophe.
我认为这是迄今为止在 9/11 灾难十周年之际推出的最好的作品。
“American Marvel” (GQ), Edith Zimmerman’s profile of Chris Evans, the star of Captain America, upends everything one is accustomed to think about “movie stars” and celebrity, plus she blasts many assumptions about popular writing—and about reporters describing the world we inhabit—to absolute smithereens.
伊迪丝·齐默尔曼 (Edith Zimmerman) 在《美国漫威》(GQ) 中对《美国队长》的主演克里斯·埃文斯 (Chris Evans) 进行了介绍，颠覆了人们对“电影明星”和名人的一切惯常看法，此外，她还对流行写作以及记者描述我们所居住的世界的许多假设进行了彻底的粉碎。
Flesh-and-blood people suddenly appear on the screen where one had been expecting a cartoon.
本来以为是动画片的屏幕上突然出现了有血有肉的人。
Steven Mikulan’s “Dr. Drew Feels Your Pain” (Los Angeles Magazine), by contrast, conjures a nuanced portrait out of the media fun-house mirror the old-fashioned way, via the painstaking layering up of detail through long and patient, keen observation.
相比之下，史蒂文·米库兰（Steven Mikulan）的《德鲁医生感受到你的痛苦》（《洛杉矶杂志》）则以老式的方式，通过长期、耐心、敏锐的观察，煞费苦心地将细节分层，从媒体游乐场的镜子中召唤出一幅细致入微的肖像。
It has a similar payoff to the Zimmerman piece, in that you’re seeing a real world spring by magic out of the Potemkin one.
它与齐默尔曼的作品有类似的回报，因为你会看到一个现实世界通过魔法从波将金号中涌现出来。
Spencer Soper’s Morning Call exposé of the sweatshop conditions at Amazon’s Allentown, Pa., warehouse came just as the Occupy movement was beginning to take hold.
斯宾塞·索珀 (Spencer Soper) 的《晨讯》(Morning Call) 揭露了亚马逊位于宾夕法尼亚州阿伦敦的仓库的血汗工厂状况，此时正值“占领”运动开始占据主导地位。
The disparity between the friendly face that Amazon crafts for public view and the abject brutality with which they treated their employees in Allentown demonstrated perfectly and at just the right time the terrible cost of profit-obsessed corporatism (and bargain-obsessed consumerism).
亚马逊为公众打造的友好面孔与他们对待阿伦敦员工的卑鄙残忍之间的差异，在适当的时候完美地展示了痴迷于利润的法团主义（以及痴迷于讨价还价的消费主义）的可怕成本。
At Inside Higher Education, Steve Kolowich interviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick, a professor of media studies at Pomona College, regarding the coming digital revolution in academic research and publishing.
在高等教育内部，史蒂夫·科洛维奇采访了波莫纳学院媒体研究教授凯瑟琳·菲茨帕特里克，探讨了学术研究和出版领域即将到来的数字革命。
Sounds a little dry, maybe, but check it out.
也许听起来有点干，但请检查一下。
Fitzpatrick and her forward-thinking colleagues have identified, and are carefully nurturing, the phoenix egg from which a new and improved academy is already beginning to hatch.
菲茨帕特里克和她富有远见的同事们已经找到并正在精心培育凤凰蛋，一个新的、改进的学院已经开始从其中孵化。
Bonus:
奖金：
Fiction: George Saunders, Tenth of December (The New Yorker): best fiction of any length I read all year.
小说：乔治·桑德斯，《十二月十日》（《纽约客》）：我全年读过的所有长度的最佳小说。
Humor: David Roth, Brief Interviews with Hideous Football Players (The Awl), a comic tour de force that fans of David Foster Wallace will particularly enjoy.
幽默：大卫·罗斯，《丑陋足球运动员的简短访谈》（锥子），大卫·福斯特·华莱士的粉丝们会特别喜欢的漫画杰作。
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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。