The William Trevor Reader: “A Husband’s Return”
It might be fair to say that the most salient attribute of the modern short story (1990 to present) is reticence—reticent characters, reticence of narration, reticence of style, and most of all, a reticence on the part of authors toward dramatic action. The modern story is, above all else, . Pick a newish story at random from The New Yorker, and chances are that there is some kind of danger,
