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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.   

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.  And last year, it was the Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award! 

In the week of the 5th September 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Biography, Book Review: A spitting comet:  Muriel Spark's irrespressible creative drive by Gwendoline Riley
  • Biography, Book Review:  The debt to pleasure:  Samuel Pepys's self-incriminating diaries by Ruth Scurr
  • Visual arts, Essay:  A woman's face:  Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare's patron the Earl of Southampton?  by Elizabeth Goldring, Emma Rutherford and Jonathan Bate
  • Social and Cultural Studies, Essay:  With feeling:  The long battle between emotion and irony by Frances Wilson
  • Classics, Book Review:   Civil service:   The loyalth inspired by ancient cities by Michael Kulikowski
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Another country:  The unlikely hero of an unnamed world by Justin Warshaw
  • Modern History, Book Review:  Imperial measures: How Cecil Rhodes seized on new technology by Jonathan Jackson
  • Letter from:  Essay:  Kharkiv by Lindsey Hilsum
  • Original Poems:  Conservation by George Szirtes
  • Afterthoughts, Column:   The 13,216th greatest book of all time:  Algorithms and literature by Tim Parks
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   The oological underworld:  The biography of an extinction by Clare Pettitt
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Invisible lives:  A Croatian novel explores national sore spots by Natasha Tripney
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Tracing routes:  Points of departure and arrival in African migratory fiction by Lindsay Johns
  • Letters, Essay:  Get well soon, and get lost: The rise and fall of a relationship in Muriel Spark’s letters by Dan Gunn
  • 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 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.  In July 2025, these included.. 

 

  • Blurred lines: What makes a novel of ideas?
  • Breaking The Waves: How Virginia Woolf righted ‘one chapter gone wrong’
  • Through bushes and briars: Ancient rural skills in a modern world
  • The skull beneath the skin: A strident call for the decolonization of national collections
  • Deep State vs Donald Trump: How accountable are US intelligence agencies to the president and Congress?
  • A stranger in his own land: Henry James’s return to the United States

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