Family
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Books
Want to Hear Michael Oher’s Version? Read His Books.
The former N.F.L. player and inspiration for “The Blind Side” just launched a legal battle with the family he once…
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News
The Blind Side of Sports Storytelling
“The Blind Side” played on sports fans’ penchant for too-tidy narratives, our columnist writes. A legal battle between the N.F.L.…
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Health
Addiction Treatment Eludes More Than Half of Americans in Need
About 30 percent of Americans have been addicted to opioids or have a relative who has been, researchers also reported.
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Style
The Frothy Saga of the Jacuzzi Family
Candido Jacuzzi didn’t set out to turn his last name into a global brand. Nor did he intend to power…
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World
Soldier Who Called Out Torture in Iraq Is Laid to Rest at Arlington
Ian Fishback, who left the Army with the rank of major, was a dissident-in-uniform who died at the age of…
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News
In Gilgo Beach Slayings, a Wife Nearby but Apparently Unknowing
Asa Ellerup, married to Rex Heuermann, who has been charged with murder, cut a glum figure. She was away when…
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World
In Australia, He Was a ‘Great Father.’ Secretly, He Was an Escaped Convict.
New DNA evidence helped confirm that a man who went by John Damon and died in Australia in 2010 was…
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Arts
Review: Arson, Snowmen, Avian Attacks in ‘Regretfully, So the Birds Are’
A family of adoptees reckon with Asian American identity in this surreal play from Playwrights Horizons and WP Theater.
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Books
22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring
Watch for reality-bending explorations of time and space, a Western horror novel from Victor LaValle and new fiction from Han…
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Magazine
Can I Use My Adopted Child’s DNA to Find His Biological Parents?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on protecting a child’s medical privacy while helping them learn about their past.