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"It's very exciting as a scientist to find something unexpected like this that we weren't looking for," said Daniel Katz, CU Boulder chemistry PhD student and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

The author won widespread acclaim with novels such as Under The Net, The Black Prince and The Sea, the Sea, as well as philosophical essays exploring morality.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

“I can’t,” the author replied in all seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

But the director, who wrote his adaptation in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo, also isn’t content with mere novelistic faithfulness to an author whose traces of colonial allegory in “The Stranger” have often been found problematic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Even in the dim, purple-tinged light, Boaz could see the back cover photo of an aging man in an ill-fitting suit, who he presumed to be the author.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny