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Date: Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 4:54 AM
Subject: This Week's Issue: The Other Family-‍Separation Crisis
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The devastating effects of locking up mothers. Plus: Gavin Newsom, the next head of the California resistance. View this email in your browser Letter from Oklahoma America's Other Family-‍Separation Crisis Sending a mother to prison can have a devastating effect on her children. Why, then, do we lock so many women up? By Sarah Stillman PAID POST ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE FROM DAVID GRANN An extraordinary true story of Henry Worsley's Antarctic odyssey, from the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon. Now in hardcover, with more than 50 black-and-white and color photographs. The Political Scene Gavin Newsom, the Next Head of the California Resistance Like many Democrats in the Trump era, Newsom aims to harness the alarm of moderates, the rage of progressives, and the widespread yearning for a new politics. By Tad Friend A Reporter at Large The Day the Great Plains Burned Alerts had been going out for weeks that conditions in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas were perfect for wildfires. On March 6, 2017, the prairie went up in flames. By Ian Frazier Annals of History A Hundred Years After the Armistice If you think the First World War began senselessly, consider how it ended. By Adam Hochschild Comment The Midterm Elections Are a Referendum on Donald Trump Explosive devices were sent to prominent critics of the President at a moment of national division—one generated by the President himself. By David Remnick Books Sylvia Plath's Last Letters A new volume of her correspondence is suffused with a sense of foreboding—portents of the looming tragedy that has come to define the poet's legacy. By Dan Chiasson Shouts & Murmurs How to Read "Infinite Jest" Take a selfie with book "accidentally" in background. Post on social media. By Claire Friedman Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We'd love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy (....) Copyright © Condé Nast 2018. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.