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 21st February 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Theatre, (Arts Review):  Fictional history:  Thomases More and Cromwell on stage again by Jim Keaveney
  • Modern history, (Book Review):  The fall of the Second Reich:  How imperial Germany struggled with modernity by Jonathan Sperber
  • Fiction (Book Review):  Bored with luxury hotels?   A celebrated corporate architect falls from grace by Randy Boyagoda
  • Original poems:   Two poems by Jean Follain, Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic 
  • Biography (Book Review):   Solving the big puzzles:  The unrelenting creativity of Roger Penrose by Jenann T. Ismael
  • Autobiography (Book Review):  Golden Gates: The making of the Microsoft man by John Arlidge
  • Social & cultural studies (Essay):  The lost world of childhood:  Teaching an old-fashioned view of England by Ken Worpole
  • Politics (Book Review):  'Leviathan' is back big time:  The end of the distinction between state and market by Crispin Sartwell 
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Big Chocolate:  The journey from 'bean to bar' by Oliver Balch
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Class acts:  Sonic shifts in Black British music by Aida Amoako
  • Travel, (Book Review):  Scramble through Africa:  A story of imperial 'holly and hubris' by Barnaby Phillips
  • 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!

In December 2024, some highlights from the TLS were:

  • The myth of Marie Antoinette: An average woman forced to rise to exceptional circumstances
  • Informal empire: The wider impact of India from the Red Sea to the Pacific
  • All human life is here: The ‘dangerous’ eighteenth arrondissement of Paris
  • It’s a dog’s life?: Sad human lives measured against those of happy canines
  • Death becomes them: A philosophical inquiry into how animals perceive mortality
  • The name’s Smiley: An affectionate return to le Carré’s best-loved character
  • Kindling self-regard: What readers like most in a book

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!