Mark Lovewell has held various senior roles at Ryerson University. He is also one of the magazine’s contributing editors.
Articles by Mark Lovewell
- Royal Descent (March 2021)
Rideau Hall is brought down to earth - The Fire and Brimstone Next Time (January–February 2019)
We deal with the reality of evil by thinking of ways that sinners are punished - Voices from the Wilderness (April 2004)
A review of Ancient Mariner: The Amazing Adventures of Samuel Hearne, The Sailor Who Walked to the Arctic Ocean, by Ken McGoogan, and Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West, by D’Arcy Jenish. - Latin Graces (May 2016)
A review of A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story, by Judith Skelton Grant - Classical Canada (March 2015)
A review of Republicanism and Responsible Government: The Shaping of Democracy in Australia and Canada, by Benjamin T. Jones - Canada’s Yankee Railroad Czar (October 2004)
A review of From Telegrapher to Titan: The Life of William C. Van Horne, by Valerie Knowles - Allure of the Ice Floes (January–February 2005)
A review of The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant, by Peter Steele, and The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World, by Robert McGhee - Magicians and Mystics (April 2005)
A review of The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia, by Charles Montgomery - Substance over Sex Appeal (June 2005)
A review of Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991, by David E.W. Laidler and William B.P. Robson - Harder Than It Looks (July–August 2005)
A review of Royal Canadian Jihad, by Patrick Grady, Earthbaby, by Peter Such, and Water Inc., by Varda Burstyn - He Daunts Us Still (November 2013)
A review of The Truth about Trudeau, by Bob Plamondon - As Others See Us (July–August 2012)
Glimpses of Canada through other literary eyes - The Inconvenient Crown (June 2012)
Two new books defend the uneasy state of the monarchy in Canada - Made in Canada? (May 2011)
A review of Jean Monnet and Canada: Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity, by Trygve Ugland - From Wedding Cake to Music Garden (October 2010)
A review of Creating Memory: A Guide to Outdoor Public Sculpture in Toronto, by John Warkentin - Dangerous Liaisons (June 2010)
A review of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile - Another City (September 2009)
A review of Young Hunting: A Memoir, by Martin Hunter and The Great Adventure: 100 Years at the Arts and Letters Club, by Margaret McBurney - Frozen Moments (April 2009)
A review of Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers, by Dorothy Harley Eber, and Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane, by Ken McGoogan. - Tales from the Frontier (May 2008)
A review of Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid Became Tyrrell of the North, by Heather Robertson, and Dark Storm Moving West, by Barbara Belyea - Past as Prologue (April 2008)
An online review of John W. Dean’s The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers – John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Goodman, Jane Jacobs, Eric W. Kierans, Martin Luther King, Jr. - The Young Englishman (November 2007)
A review of God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery, by Douglas Hunter - Behind Brocade Curtains (January–February 2007)
A review of Private Demons: The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald, by Patricia Phenix - Another Country (January–February 2006)
A review of Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America, by Philip Marchand - The Advantages of Union (September 2002)