We're publishing next week's cover story early:

When Kabul fell to the Taliban, @mattaikins and his housemate, the photographer Jim Huylebroek, made the decision not to evacuate.

This is their firsthand account of how it happened and what came after.https://t.co/BW7jqOPC5i pic.twitter.com/VnIsUvrmKw

— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) December 11, 2021