I Quit the Presidential Campaign

ImageCredit…Photo Illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Marianne Williamson joined the presidential campaign in January 2019. One year later she left it. Jan. 20, 2020 There’s a difference between form and content. Forms change, but content doesn’t. As long as you’re focused on content then you’re more emotionally and psychologically able to let form…

I Quit New York

ImageCredit…Photo Illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Cameron Carling, 38, left to pursue a dream life in Costa Rica. Then he ditched that, too. Interview by Alex Williams Jan. 20, 2020 I moved to New York in 2007 from Los Angeles, where I had been living after college at U.C.L.A. You show up in…

What Happened to Choupette?

PARIS — After the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld died last February at age 85, a rumor began to circulate: He had left his fortune, and a large part of his worldly goods, to his Birman cat, Choupette. The estate hasn’t been settled yet, and Mr. Lagerfeld’s team remains mum on the subject. But the public’s…

A Bollywood Star Takes on a Global Stigma

Deepika Padukone, one of the highest-paid and best-known actresses in Bollywood, can afford to choose her roles carefully and with purpose. With her newest film — the first she has produced — she chose to make a statement about acid attacks in India. “Chhapaak,” which was released on Jan. 10 in India and select cities…

Michael Imperioli’s Home Away From Home

It would be tough to argue that “Michael Imperioli: Hunt for the Perfect Apartment” packs the same punch as “Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.” The latter is a new NBC crime series with Mr. Imperioli playing a no-nonsense old-school detective, a role that necessitated relocating to New York from his home in Santa…

I Quit My On-Demand Laundry Service

ImageCredit…Photo illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times In my study of time, I realized that these so-called conveniences were not actually saving me any. Jan. 20, 2020 Three months ago, on Oct. 18, I ended a five-year relationship with my provider of on-demand clean underwear. I did this first by deleting the app and…

They Quit This Assignment

ImageCredit…Photo Illustration by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times An editor gets ghosted. By Anya Strzemien Jan. 20, 2020 In the course of putting together this series of essays about quitting, even the project itself wasn’t quit-proof, as my ultimately one-way correspondence with a writer who accepted the assignment — then disappeared — proved. I Quit!…