Your story “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai” is a kind of companion piece to another story, “On the Night of the Khatam,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 2024. Can you explain how the two pieces fit together, and what made you want to return to that fictional…

We were two hours late (but on time), and our husbands had been pacing since six, in the kitchen and in the living room and out on the porch, and, even as they drove, quietly fuming, past rivers or fields or stoplights, we noticed them pacing inside their…

For the June 8, 2026, Fiction Issue cover, the artists Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral collaborated on a shared vision of a life filled with books, enjoyed by a whole community. The two work in close partnership: he draws, she applies the colors, and…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” from the June 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the…

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Night rarely falls on the harsh, sun-bleached world of Aleshea Harris’s film “Is God Is,” a revenge parable about the breaking, or the burning, of the Black family. A glare backgrounds the protagonists, twins with matching cornflower box braids, named Racine…

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Every day, order a set of items based on a hidden theme.

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