Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “
A Life of Adventure and Delight,” and two novels, “
An Obedient Father,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “
Family Life,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016.