Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama is the vacation spot you didn’t know you needed, perched atop a majestic plateau ...

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.

All through the summer of 1788, the great poet-philosopher-playwright Friedrich Schiller used to stride around this bend, ...