The Literary Review of Canada (or LRC) is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 that publishes ten times a year. The magazine publishes essays and reviews of books on political, cultural and social topics, as well as Canadian poetry. In January 2008 the LRC started publishing reviews and essays online in its "Online Originals" feature.

History

The LRC was founded in 1991 in Toronto by Patrice Dutil. In 1996, he sold the magazine to Carleton University Press. In 1998, the magazine was sold to partners David Berlin, Denis Deneau and later partner and managing editor Helen Walsh. Berlin left in 2001, the same year Mark Lovewell joined as partner and eventually co-publisher. Deneau left in early 2003. Current editor Bronwyn Drainie

Bronwyn Drainie

Bronwyn Drainie is a Canadian arts journalist. Currently editor of the Literary Review of Canada, she has also been a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail, and was formerly a host of programming on CBC Radio including the flagship program Sunday Morning...

 was hired in 2003.

The magazine began publishing poetry early on in its history, through the original efforts of Wayne Ray

Wayne Ray

Wayne Scott Ray is a Canadian poet and photographer.Ray is the founder of HMS Press publishing, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association and co-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets: Associates for 1985/1986...

 and the Canadian Poetry Association

Canadian Poetry Association

The Canadian Poetry Association began as a grass-roots organization dedicated to promoting the reading, writing, publishing and preservation of poetry in Canada through the individual efforts of members; promoting communication among poets, publishers and the general public; encouraging leadership...

.

The magazine unveiled its list of the 100 most important Canadian books ever published in the January/February 2006 and March 2006 issues. The list ran in chronological order, starting with Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big...

's Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI, published in 1545, and ending with Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States...

' Dark Age Ahead

Dark Age Ahead

Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in the U.S. and Canada. She argues that this decay threatens to create a dark age unless the trends are reversed. Jacobs characterizes a dark age as a "mass amnesia" where even the memory of...

, published in 2004.

In September 2008, the LRC published the winning selection of its New Voices call for essays, "Progressivism's End" by David Eaves and Taylor Owen. Essays by Andrew Ng and John Robson were also published online. It continues to publish "Online Original" essays on its website.

Staff

The magazine's current editor is Bronwyn Drainie

Bronwyn Drainie

Bronwyn Drainie is a Canadian arts journalist. Currently editor of the Literary Review of Canada, she has also been a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail, and was formerly a host of programming on CBC Radio including the flagship program Sunday Morning...

 and the co-publishers are Helen Walsh and Mark Lovewell. Past editors include founder Patrice Dutil, David Berlin, Anthony Westell and Lewis DeSoto.

The current poetry editors are Molly Peacock

Molly Peacock

Molly Peacock is an American-Canadian poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer. She is an alumna of Binghamton University.-Career:...

 and Moira MacDougall. Past poetry editors include Fred Wah

Fred Wah

Frederick James Wah is a Canadian poet, novelist, and scholar.Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but grew up in the interior of British Columbia. His Canadian-born father was raised in China, the son of a Chinese father and a Scots-Irish mother. Fred Wah's mother was a Swedish-born...

, Matt Williams and George Murray

George Murray

George Murray may refer to:*George Mosley Murray , Bishop*Lord George Murray , Jacobite general*George Murray , Royal Navy officer and MP for Perth Burghs...

.

Articles are illustrated by original artwork by illustrators such as Barbara Klunder, Tom Pokinko, Silvia Nickerson, Aino Anto, Kevin Sylvester

Kevin Sylvester

Kevin Sylvester is a Canadian writer, cartoonist and news broadcaster.Based in Toronto, Ontario, his first children’s book Sports Hall of Weird was named a Silver Birch Honour Book in 2006 and a Rocky Mountain Honour Book in 2007. His second book, Gold Medal for Weird was released in 2007 and was...

, Clarke MacDonald and Aimee Van Drimmelin.

Advisory council members are Michael Adams, Ron Atkey, Alan Broadbent, Chris Ellis, James Gillies

James Gillies

James McPhail Gillies, CM was a Progressive Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons. He is an economist and educator by career....

, Carol Hansell

Carol Hansell

Carol Hansell sits on the Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada. She studied at the University of Western Ontario , then did an MA in International Relations at the University of Toronto in 1982 and then rose to success after taking the MBA/LLB degree at the prestigious Osgoode Hall Law School...

, John Honderich

John Honderich

John Allen Honderich, is a Canadian businessman who was the publisher of the Toronto Star from 1994 to 2004.Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Beland Honderich, Honderich graduated from Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland, the University of Toronto and London School of Economics.His...

, Sandy Houston, Donald Macdonald

Donald Stovel Macdonald

Donald Stovel Macdonald, PC, CC is a former Canadian Liberal politician and Cabinet minister.Macdonald graduated from the University of Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1952. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 election as the Liberal Member of...

, Trina McQueen, Susan Reisler, Grant Reuber

Grant Reuber

Grant Louis Reuber, OC, FRSC is a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant, and businessman.Grant Louis Reuber, the son of Daniel and Gertrude Reuber, was born in Mildmay, Ontario. He was educated at Walkerton High School. He received an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the...

, Don Rickerd, Rana Sarkar, Mark Sarner, Bernard Schiff, Reed Scowen

Reed Scowen

Reed Scowen is a Canadian business executive, author and politician born and living in the province of Quebec....

 and Anthony Westell.

Writers who have been published in the magazine include Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

, Jack Granatstein

Jack Granatstein

Jack Lawrence Granatstein, OC, FRSC is a Canadian historian who specializes in political and military history.-Education:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Le College militaire royal de Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in...

, Joan Givner

Joan Givner

Joan Givner is an essayist, biographer, and novelist from Manchester, England, known for her biographies of women, short stories, and the Ellen Fremendon series of novels for younger readers that was finalist for the Silver Birch Awards, the 2006 Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award for...

, Rex Murphy

Rex Murphy

Rex Murphy is a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters.Murphy was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, 105 kilometres west of St. John's and is the second of five children of Harry and Marie Murphy...

, Barbara McDougall

Barbara McDougall

Barbara Jean McDougall, PC, OC, is a former Canadian politician. McDougall received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in political science and economics, in 1963.In 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada....

, Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places , A History of Reading , The Library at Night and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography ; and novels such as News...

, Kent Roach

Kent Roach

Kent Roach is a professor of law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is well known for his expertise and writings on criminal law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and more recently anti-terrorism law...

, David Macfarlane

David Macfarlane

David Macfarlane is a Canadian journalist, playwright and novelist.He published a family memoir, The Danger Tree, in 1991...

, Peter Russell

Peter Russell

Peter Russell M.A., D.C.S. is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and has remained a popular public...

, John Bemrose

John Bemrose

John Bemrose is a Canadian arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright.His arts reviews have appeared in Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, the National Post and on CBC Radio....

, Sylvia Ostry

Sylvia Ostry

Sylvia Ostry, is a Canadian economist and public servant.Born Sylvia Knelman in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 3, 1927, she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from McGill University in 1948, a Master of Arts from McGill in 1950, and a Ph.D...

, William Watson

William Watson

William Watson may refer to:*W. Marvin Watson , U.S. Postmaster General*William E. Watson, military historian*William H. Watson , Mexican-American War soldier from Maryland*William J. Watson...

, Lloyd Axworthy

Lloyd Axworthy

Lloyd Norman Axworthy, PC, OC, OM is a prominent Canadian politician, statesman and University President from Manitoba. He is best known for having served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien...

, Drew Hayden Taylor

Drew Hayden Taylor

Drew Hayden Taylor is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist.Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwa and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Because I am half Ojibway half Caucasian, we will be called the occasions...

, Alanna Mitchell, Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches the University of Toronto.-Life and career:Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario....

, Preston Manning

Preston Manning

Ernest Preston Manning, CC is a Canadian politician. He was the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance...

, Ken Greenberg, Janice Stein

Janice Stein

Janice Gross Stein, O.Ont, CM, FRSC is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert.-Career:Stein holds degrees from McGill University , and Yale University...

, David M. Malone

David M. Malone

David M. Malone, born in 1954, is a Canadian author on international security and development, as well as a career diplomat. He is a former president of the International Peace Institute, and a frequently quoted expert on international affairs, especially relations between the United States and the...

, Richard Gwyn

Richard Gwyn

Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, is a Canadian civil servant, journalist and author.-Early life:Richard Gwyn was born on May 26, 1934, in Bury St. Edmunds, England, and was the second son to his parents Brigadier Philip Eustace Congreve Jermy-Gwyn, an Indian Army officer, and Elizabeth Edith...

, Noah Richler

Noah Richler

Noah Richler is a Canadian journalist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada and London, England. He is the son of Florence Isabel Wood and famous Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler...

, Alidad Mafinezam, Peter Hadekel, Laura Robinson, Desmond Morton, Paul Knox

Paul Knox

Paul Patrick Knox is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played in one National Hockey League game for the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 1954–55 NHL season....

, Brad Fraser

Brad Fraser

Brad Fraser is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. Fraser's plays typically feature a harsh yet comical view of contemporary life in Canada, including frank depictions of...

, Jennifer Welsh

Jennifer Welsh

Dr. Jennifer Welsh is currently a professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the , part of the James Martin 21st Century School...

, Marcus Gee

Marcus Gee

Marcus Gee is an international affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national daily newspaper, which he joined in 1991....

, Ezra Levant

Ezra Levant

Ezra Isaac Levant is a Canadian lawyer, conservative political activist and media figure. He is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, hosts The Source daily on Sun News Network, and has written several books on politics....

, Charles Foran

Charles Foran

Charles Foran is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer living in Peterborough, Ontario.-Biography:Foran was born in August 1960 in Toronto to a Franco-Ontarian mother and a father from an Ottawa Irish family. He attended Catholic elementary school and Brebeuf College School, a Jesuit high...

, Philip Marchand, Michael Valpy

Michael Valpy

Michael Granville Valpy is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author. He writes for the Globe and Mail newspaper where he made his reputation on both political and human interest stories...

, Jovanni Sy, Michael Geist

Michael Geist

Michael Allen Geist is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. Geist was educated at the University of Western Ontario where he received his Bachelors of Laws before going on to get his Masters of Laws at both Osgoode Hall Law...

, Gilles Paquet

Gilles Paquet

Gilles Paquet, OC, FRSC is a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the School of Management and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa.He was professor of economics, and Dean of...

, Sandra Martin, Wade Rowland

Wade Rowland

-Biography:Rowland was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1944. He was married in 1978 to Christine Collie, with whom he has two children, Hilary and Simon....

, Peter Calamai, John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul, CC is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN.As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the...

, Conrad Black

Conrad Black

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...

and T. Edward Chamberlin.