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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 3rd April 2026, the TLS includes:

  • History, Book Review:  Cultural superpower? An argument for ‘British is best’ by Claude Rawson
  • Visual Arts, Arts Review:  Escaping chains and cages:  Birds as symbol and reality in art by Boyd Tonkin
  • Theatre, Arts Review:  Rural fantasies, The last days of the Russian bourgeoisie by Maria Margaronis
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Street of shame:  A novel of intergenerational conflict and personal angst by Christopher Shrimpton
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Only expose  A jobbing actor finds work as a prop in an experiment by Philip Womack
  • British Literature, Book Review:  What's in a name?  An orphan who may have inspired Oliver Twist by Ana Alicia Garza
  • Original poems:  Cottage Industry:  Camo by Fiona Benson
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Vodka and vapours: A crime writer turns her attention to winter by Libby Purves
  • Social & cultural studies, Book Review:  Life at the top: The rise and fall of British public housing by Robert Bevan
  • North American politics, Book Review:  All the president's men: The four contradictory groups behind Maga by Sam Freedman
  • North American politics, Book Review:  A House divided:  Why the US Congress is unfit for purpose by Sarah Baxter
  • Afterthoughts, Column:  Paper castles:  How medieval texts predict modern technologyby Irina Dumitrescu
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Warfights: Decline and fall of the British Army by Paul Winter
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Wasting your mind: A memoir of displacement from the classroom by Eric J. Iannelli
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Steepest learning curve: Mathematics at the edges by Sarah Hart
  • Natural history, Book Review:  Planting a seed: How trees shape our environment and the world by Fiona Stafford
  • 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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