Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “
The Golden Boy” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” which was published in 2009 and won both the Story Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His first novel, “
This is Where the Serpent Lives,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in January.