Richard Bonoccorso published two pieces on Trevor in 19 respectively.
Thomas (1999), whose essay “Worlds of Their Own: A Host of Trevor’s Obsessives” appeared in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, my own essays (19 respectively), “Reading Trevor, Reading Turgenev” in The CUHK Journal of the Humanities and “The Outsider in the Novels of William Trevor” in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and Ian Sansom (1999) “New Fiction: Reading Trevor” in Salmagundi. Newspaper reviewers and literary prize committees praise his work and, more recently, he has been recognized by academic critics. He does not burden the reader with philosophizing speculation or arguments for a particular political point of view. Trevor tells stories, offering fictional “realities” in a clear, matter-of-fact style. Trevor’s fiction, in fact, explores some of the same territory as popular novels do, though its landmarks are the ruined lives of tragedy. 1This essay -assuming a Shakespearean allusion- could have been called “Domestic Malice” or taking its cue respectively from soap opera or pulp fiction, “The Mischievous and the Malign” or “The Malign and the Malicious”.
