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Having celebrated his 1995 novel Independence Day (which won a Pulitzer), critics are now wondering whether Ford can write about anything other than the subject of that book--that is, self-centered men.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
The group is commended for its ability to tap spirituality without degenerating into self-centered men's-movement histrionics.
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.
The Dalai Lama's pop Buddhism is appealingly self-centered: Happiness trumps everything.