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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.  

The Times Literary Supplement considers itself to be a the world’s leading journal for literature and ideas;  it believes in the importance of ideas and 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 include Adam Begley, James Cook, Adam Mars-Jones, Krishan Kumar, Margaret Drabble, James Marcus and Henry Hitchings.

There are regular features, such as cartoons, a weekly literary crossword and quiz, a regular online column looking at the ethical issues today, a Poem of the Week, where the TLS revisits original poetry from its Archive, and Letters to the Editor.  

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In the week of the 26th July, 2024, the TLS includes contents such as:

• Teenage wasteland:  Are social media and a safety-first culture harmful to children? by  Andrew Solomon (Social and Cultural Studies, Book Review)
• Wind chimes: A new blockbuster tornado movie, nearly thirty years later by Adam Mars-Jones  (Film, Arts Review)
• The Gulag economy: More than 25 million people experienced Soviet labour camps by Miriam Dobson (Twentieth century history and later, Book Review)
• Fingerpost by Shaun O'Brien (Original poems)
• Rage against dying: Elias Canetti’s one-man war on mortality by Daniel Johnson (Autobiography, Book Review)
• Right on track: How railways enabled the liberation of northern France by  Andrew Martin (In Brief, In Brief Review)
• In his element: ‘An ode to the intermittency of British weather – while it lasts’  by Isaac Nowell  (Natural history, Book Review)
• Family histories:  A sweeping Icelandic novel about the timelessness of human qualities by Paul Binding (In Brief, In Brief Review)
• Are plants intelligent? Memory and consciousness outside the animal kingdom by Harriet Rix (Natural history, Book Review)
• Keeping cool: How a changing climate is challenging sport by Roger Domeneneghetti  (In Brief, In Brief Review)
• 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 - you can see what's included in the week of the 26th July 2024 here.  So there's a huge amount to immerse yourself in and discover and think about!

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In June 2024, some highlights from the TLS were:

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