Sadia Shepard Reads “Kim’s Game”
The author reads her story from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine.
The author reads her story from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine.
January 11, 2026
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Andreas Burgess
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What happens when a bad-tempered, distractible doofus runs an empire?
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After a London teen mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his parents discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son.
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