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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.  

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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.  

In the edition of the 10th July 2026, the TLS includes:

  • History, Book Review:   Best of enemies:  The Iranian regime's long confrontation with America by Azadeh Moaveni
  • Medieval History, Book Review:  Southern Exposure:  Two rival accounts of a French expedition to conquer the Canaries by Sebastian Dows-Miller
  • Medieval History, Book Review:  A plague on all houses:  The medieval pandemic by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
  • Poetry, Book Review:  Allen Ginsberg at 100:  Poet, counterculture critic and self-promoter by Douglas Field
  • Contemporary philosophy, Book Review:  Getting real:  Do objects exist independently of human experience?  by Emily Herring
  • British literature, Book Review:  Breaking away:  Three rebellious women novelists by Alice Hill-Woods
  • Social & cultural studies, Book Review:  Last resorts:  An era of medical travel by Marie Allitt
  • Fiction, Book Review:  What does the fox think?  Profound, quirky tales of mothers and daughters, parties and pets by Hirsh Sawhney
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Writing to be noticed:  THe belated UK arrival of a Great American Talent by Jude Cook
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Days of puzzlement:  A psychotherapist investigates the murder of her former lover by Sheena Joughin 
  • Essay, Book Review:  So there he was in Guatemala..The essayist as a stand-up comic by Norma Clarke
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Whale calls:  Essays from an age of unprecedented crises by Rebecca Foster
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Uppercuts heart all around town:  Life in a children's home in Equatorial Guinea by Miranda France
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Maps of the mind:  Reviewing the state of the mental health provision by Rachel Kelly
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   The garbage run:  Reportage on 'the never-ending flow of refuse' by Nick Bartlett
  • Commentary, Essay:  Rebel playwright:  What a painting reveals about Shakespeare's political allegiances by Chris Laoutaris and Yasmin Arshad  
  • 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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