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Looking for a gift subscription for someone who wants depth, expertise and breadth in their reading and lots of culture?  How about giving them a subscription to the Times Literary Supplement, or the TLS for short, or treating yourself to one?

Take a look at the Times Literary Supplement (TLS for short)!

The TLS covers a range of subjects such as the arts, classics, culture, history, language and linguistics, literature, lives philosophy, politics and society, religion, science and technology and the world.  It has been publishing book reviews and sometimes provocative essays since 1902, and it covers everything from The Tempest to climate change.    There's a Poem of the Week, when the TLS revisits orginal poetry, first published in the TLS, with a new introduciton;  and there's Twenty questions, which is a series of author interviews.  Footnotes to Plato looks at the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers, and there are cartoons, The Podcast and Crossword and Quiz - lots to interest! 

The Times Literary Supplement considers itself to be a the world’s leading journal for literature and ideas;  over the years its contributors have included people such as Virginia Woolf, Henry James, T S Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, Martin Amis, George Orwell, Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood.  Today, contributors often include Adam Begley, James Cook, Adam Mars-Jones, Krishan Kumar, Margaret Drabble, James Marcus and Henry Hitchings.  

In the summer of 2025, it moved from a weekly to expanded fortnightly format, and the fortnightly format is published 26 times a year (instead of 50 times) but it has 48 pages instead of just under 30.  And the TLS has relaunched its website, which updates every week and offers new articles as well as digital access to the historic archive.  

Subscribe to the TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, here

In the week of the 9th January 2026 the TLS includes:

  • Food & drink, Book Review:  Slice of life:  The evolution of pizza by Francesca Tiana
  • British literature, Essay:   'One day, they'll find me out':  How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others
  • Twentieth-century history & later, Book Review: In deep water:  The German war on Allied convoys by Evan Mawdsley
  • Visual arts, Book Review:   As unalike as ever:  Turner is one our banknotes, Constable in our hearts by Ferdinand Mount
  • Maths, Book Review:   Do the math: A practical guide to the ‘algebraic art’ by Snezana Lawrence
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Making stories happen: An authoritative, questioning, ‘final’ not-quite-novel by Dina Birch
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Tongue-tied:  A mother and son are reunited in Tokyo by James Cahill
  • Fiction, Book Review:  The way they wring their hands: A gangster’s son is lured back to his family by George Cochrane
  • Original poems:  The Future by Jesse Nathan
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Sobbing for Nixon:  A New York conservative's writing life by Gregory Woods
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Vanishing act:  Losing friends and country by Alexander Leissle
  • Afterthoughts, Column:   The notebook fallacy:  Why stylish stationery won't change your life by Ian Sansom 
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Psychic space:  Making a ‘clean break’ with a dysfunctional family by Terri Apter
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Nature's fullest powers: The relationship between jargon and birdsong by Erica McAlpine
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Courageous observations: Innovations in the field of child psychoanalysis by Miranda Gold
  • and LOTS more!

So there are lots to immerse yourself in with articles on Fiction, Arts, Original Poems, Afterthoughts, In Brief (that's articles which get straight to the point), and podcasts, too - so there's a huge amount to immerse yourself in and discover and think about!  There are also regular features, such as cartoons, a literary crossword and quiz, a regular online column looking at the ethical issues today, and Letters to the Editor.  


Different subscription options…

There are two different options:  digital - and print and digital.  You can compare them and subscribe here.  The digital is the most affordable (one month free, £6.99 a month thereafter) -  it includes unrestricted access to the TLS website, full use of the TLS Archive starting in 1902 and the TLS first-look with the weekly newsletter.   Best value is £89.99 for the year - the Print and Digital.  As well as the previous benefits listed, it also includes the print edition delivered to your door fortnightly.   

 

Give a gift subscription to the Times Literary Supplement today!
Give a gift subscription or treat yourself to the Times Literary Supplement today!

You can view TLS Highlights here to get a further idea of some of the content which the TLS has included.

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