Swimming in the Dark Condition:Like New and a critic of our

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Ben Gallagher

In these compellingly candid essays

state-owned oil firms—particularly in the Middle East—are having to balance the political demands of their governments with the need to be commercially competitive

quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education

Swimming in the Dark Condition:Like New and a critic of ourSet in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political dividea stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst. When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree