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.

In the week of the 28th March 2025 the TLS includes:

  • British politics:  The rise of the geru: Why the prime minister is no longer the most important person in politics by Sam Freedman
  • Original Poems:  Parochial by Jack Warren
  • Natural History:  (Book Review): Name that tuna: The significance of sounds beneath the sea by Helen Scales
  • Food & Drink (Book Review:   Baking Bad: Natural and industrial bread by Clarissa Hyman
  • Medicine: (Book Review):  Trials and error: Searching for a cure for Alzheimer’s by Kathleen Taylor
  • Fiction:  (Book Review):  All this family business:  A humble retainer in Tanzania is accused of stealing by Andrew Motion
  • Fiction:  (Book Review):  Spores and dust: A London rental flat is demonically possessed by Lily Herd
  • Natural History:  (Book Review):  Hercules unchained: What legal rights has a chimpanzee? by Simone Gubler
  • Greek:  (Book Review):  The Greek experience;  How a complex civilization changed our mental landscape by Edith Hall
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: Canned laughter: Grappling with the ‘peculiarity and awkwardness of everyday life’ by Francesca Tiana
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Seven years of bitter quarrel: For what, exactly, did Thomas Becket lay down his life? by Lucy Beckett
  • 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 weekly literary crossword and quiz, a regular online column looking at the ethical issues today, 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

 

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