Christopher R. Beha's review of "A Pimp's Notes" (Oct . 28, by Giorgio Faletti, was useful for its excerpts from the novel.
The government had ordered the Times to cease publication of its excerpts from the papers on national-security grounds.
"The Tree of Life," with its excerpts from Darwin's journals and finely detailed drawings that fill pages to overflowing, is more an interpretative, personal response to Darwin's life than an explanation of natural selection.
In its appeal to the United States Supreme Court, Indiana v. Edwards, No. 07-208, the state included in its brief excerpts some motions Mr. Edwards filed with the trial court that led the judge to conclude that he should not be permitted to represent himself.
Following are eight recollections of the Judson Dance Theater and its beginnings, excerpted from interviews.
Here, the tale of its birth, excerpted from "Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America," by Sam Roberts, the urban affairs correspondent for The New York Times, to be published later this month by Grand Central Publishing.
That's one of the questions floating around now that "This American Life" has retracted its episode excerpting Mike Daisey's monologue "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," citing widespread fabrications in Daisey's account of his trip to China.
The N.F.L. felt compelled to release a statement in which it included excerpts from its rulebook.
In 1985 the court ruled, 6 to 3, against The Nation, stating that its 300-word excerpt from the memoir violated fair use as intended in copyright law, despite Ford's status as a public figure and the public interest in his pardon of President Richard M. Nixon, the subject of The Nation's article.
The task was to match each excerpt with its era, its composer and the solo instrument for which the source composition had been written.
