The magazine features essays and reviews of books on political, cultural, social, and literary topics, as well as original Canadian poetry.

[3] In September 2008, the magazine published the winning selection of its New Voices[4] call for essays, "Progressivism's End" by David Eaves and Taylor Owen.

Past editors include founder Patrice Dutil, David Berlin, Lewis DeSoto, Anthony Westell, Bronwyn Drainie, and Sarmishta Subramanian.

[citation needed] Board members are Julien Russell Brunet, Scott Griffin, Neena Gupta, John Edward Macfarlane, Anna Porter, Richard Rooney, and David Staines.

In addition to serving as editor-in-chief of the magazine, Kyle Wyatt is executive director of the Literary Review of Canada Charitable Foundation.

[12] Writers who have been published in the magazine include Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Axworthy, John Bemrose, Conrad Black, Lynn Crosbie, Charles Foran, Brad Fraser, Marcus Gee, Michael Geist, Joan Givner, Jack Granatstein, Richard Gwyn, Ezra Levant, David M. Malone, Alberto Manguel, Barbara McDougall, David Macfarlane, Preston Manning, Pankaj Mishra, Rex Murphy, Sylvia Ostry, Gilles Paquet, Bob Rae, Noah Richler, Kent Roach, Wade Rowland, John Ralston Saul, Janice Stein, Moez Surani, Drew Hayden Taylor, Michael Valpy, Jennifer Welsh and Zoe Whittall.