Give a subscription to the TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

 

 

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. 

Huge congratulations to the TLS -
it was the Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award 
(scroll down the page when you click through)!

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.

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.  

Subscribe to the TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, here

Different subscription options…

There are two different options:  digital - and print and digital.  You can compare them and subscribe here.  The digital is the best value (one month free, £6.99 a month thereafter) - it includes:

  • Unrestricted access to the TLS website and appunstres
  • Full use of the TLS Archive starting in 1902
  • TLS first-look with the weekly newsletter

In the week of the 17th January 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Mission to Mars:  Does God have a place in space by Adam Roberts (Theology,  Book Review)
  • What about the workers?  A new English translation of Marx's magnum opus by Jonathan Rée  (Economics, Book Review)
  • Spiritual material:  The influence of Islamic art on the Arts and Crafts pioneer by Diane Dark (Visual Arts, Book Review)
  • Risky business:  Pregnancy, birth and death in Roman times by Helen King (Roman, Book Review)
  • Middle class to militant:  The making of a revolutionary poet by Miranda France  (Poetry, Book Review)
  • How to live with a calculating cat:  The territorial and psychological imperatives of felines by Barbara J. King (Natural History, Book Review)
  • Women and the state:  Mothering as a political and public act by Sarah Knott (Social and Cultural Studies, Book Review) 
  • The permanent way:  The benefits of taking the train by Conrad Landin (In Brief, In Brief Review)
  • A powerful life force:  Revising the canon of songwriters by Cat Woods  (In Brief, In Brief Review)
  • Great stuff:  A creative writing workshop with Ursula K. Le Guin (In Brief, In Brief Review)
  • Hornets by Tim Parks (Afterthoughts, Column)
  • 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!

 

Give a gift subscription to the Times Literary Supplement today!
Give a gift subscription to the Times Literary Supplement today!

In November 2024, some highlights from the TLS were:

  • What we want from her books: Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration
  • Dreamless sleeps: Pursuing a life without friction, fear or contradiction
  • Barmier about Narnia: A social geography and gazetteer of C. S. Lewis’s city
  • Capital in the closet: The slow retreat of homophobia, told through London lives
  • Books of the Year 2024: Our contributors choose their favourites
  • Culture deficit: An investigation into the deeper causes of inequality

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

To purchase a (gift) subscription

Just choose your subscription here and then create a username on the following page.  After that, you can purchase the TLS subscription on behalf of someone else by simply ticking the relevant boxes!  Go to the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) here!