A. J. Loftin

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A. J. Loftin on Wallace Stegner, whose fiction is "as wide open as a western sky."

Landscape Artist

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A. J. Loftin reviews a history of witch-hunting, concluding that "If witches existed, John Demos would have found them."

Broomsticks and Politics

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If history repeats itself, the serious, intelligent books reviewed weekly by The New York Times will not be read by students of literature fifty years from now. 