William Trevor reads five tales from his 2007 collection of stories, published the year before the author turned 80. Folie a Deux is about a chance meeting in Paris. Cheating at Canasta tells a story ...

This undated photo shows William Trevor, author of Cheating at Canasta, Love and Summer and other collections and novels. William Trevor has been writing for more than 50 years and has won more ...

He is invariably characterised as the master of the short story in post-Joycean times, rightly revered, esteemed, admired, awarded. Several of these last 10 stories were published in The New Yorker, ...

LAST STORIES, by William Trevor. (Penguin, 213 pp., $17.) These 10 tales from the Irish virtuoso of the short story, who died in 2016, center on ordinary people whose lives veer in surprising ...

When the celebrated Irish-born short story writer and novelist William Trevor died in November 2016, he was described in The New York Times as a writer who “evoked the struggles of ordinary life.” ...

Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide Although I have been a long-time fan of the Irish writer William Trevor, it was only in 2016 – amid the ...

I’m an editor who works on features for The Times’s print edition. Here are five things I've been watching, reading and listening to. By Ken Jaworowski Editors and writers on the Books desk — along ...