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Mr. Kline’s timing is sublime, whether he’s immersed in Richard’s narcissism or enchanting a crowd of locals with an excerpt from, again, “Hamlet.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Once, to be sure that I got a story right, I shared an excerpt of my book manuscript with Greenspan.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

The excerpt shares how Davis’ mother came west from Louisiana during the Great Migration, a Black Creole who arrived in Los Angeles in 1945.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

The reading list has been shuffled, and Anne Frank’s diary now gets just one excerpt.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2025

The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker