The intense drama may not be among Parks' most immediately satisfying works, but it is so evocative, so layered, so ...

Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain," in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.

Caroline Weaver set out on a mission: catalog every retail space in New York City on foot. Now, almost four years and over 14,000 stores later, she’s nearly finished. The result? The Locavore Guide: a ...