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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.<\/p>\n

On your Sunday, explore stories about the one book everyone should read, what McKinsey did to the middle class, and more.<\/p>\n

Teens Are Forgoing a Classic Rite of Passage<\/p>\n

Fewer young people are getting into relationships.<\/p>\n

By Faith Hill<\/p>\n

The One Book Everyone Should Read<\/p>\n

The Atlantic\u2019s staffers on the books they share\u2014again and again<\/p>\n

By The Atlantic Culture Desk<\/p>\n

Why South Park Did an About-Face on Mocking Trump<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s creators once said they had nothing more to say about the president. What changed their minds?<\/p>\n

By Paula Mej\u00eda<\/p>\n

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths<\/p>\n

If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.<\/p>\n

By Arthur C. Brooks<\/p>\n

10 \u201cScary\u201d Movies for People Who Don\u2019t Like Horror<\/p>\n

You can handle these, we promise. (From 2022)<\/p>\n

By David Sims<\/p>\n

How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class<\/p>\n

Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities. (From 2020)<\/p>\n

By Daniel Markovits<\/p>\n

Homes Still Aren\u2019t Designed for a Body Like Mine<\/p>\n

Why is it so hard for disabled people to find safe, accessible places to live?<\/p>\n

By Jessica Slice<\/p>\n

The Week Ahead<\/p>\n

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  1. Greetings From Your Hometown, a new album by the Jonas Brothers (out Friday)<\/li>\n
  2. People Like Us, by the National Book Award winner Jason Mott, a novel about two Black writers trying to live a world filled with gun violence (out Tuesday)<\/li>\n
  3. Ted Bundy: Dialogue With the Devil, a new Ted Bundy docuseries that features newly uncovered interviews and recordings (out Thursday on Hulu)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Essay<\/p>\n

    Illustration by Joshua Nazario<\/p>\n

    Memoir of a Mailman<\/p>\n

    By Tyler Austin Harper<\/p>\n

    \u201cDelivering the mail is a \u2018Halloween job,\u2019\u200a\u201d Stephen Starring Grant observes in Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. \u201cAn occupation with a uniform, immediately recognizable, even by children.\u201d What to call Grant\u2019s book is harder to say. It is an unusual amalgam: a pandemic memoir, a love letter to the Blue Ridge Mountains, a participant observer\u2019s ethnography of a rural post office, an indictment of government austerity, and a witness statement attesting to the remarkable and at times ruthless efficiency of one of our oldest federal bureaucracies. Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal\u2014for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem. Or should be, anyway.<\/p>\n

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