Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.