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Deepika Padukone never set out to take India to the world. She wanted the world to come to India. As the most popular actress in the world’s most populous country, she’s often asked if she’s going to move to Hollywood.

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. It’s March in Florida, and I’m walking around Hogsmeade village in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.

After 34 seasons, 750 episodes, and a decades-long funk, the show innovated its way back to popularity and relevance.

The star escaped from her abuser, but the conditions that created him remain

The legacy of the pandemic hand sanitizer boom, an ingenious idea for solving the housing crisis, and more.

I've lived in New York City for 18 years and have been writing about its food scene for 14 of them. So when friends visit from out of town, I'm their go-to source for restaurant recommendations.

The bestselling horror books of all time are an elite group of frightening tales that have become pop culture staples. Unsurprisingly, Stephen King reigns supreme on bestseller lists and practically has his own section in this post.

1. Have Assisted Dying Laws Gone Too Far? What does it say about a country where it’s easier to request medically assisted death than it is to get support for a disability? Tarra Carlson lives with autism and ADHD. Her provincial disability benefits ceased because her husband earns too much money.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

I’ve lived in Berlin for nine months now and I have stopped thinking of myself as “learning German”. Instead I hunt daily for German I still don’t know. I enter new words into a flashcard app on my phone and slowly the proportion of German-yet-unknown-to-me diminishes.