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?
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's 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.
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 13th December 2024 the TLS includes:
- Mission control: The clandestine network of a Catholic order by Peter Geoghegan
- She made Einstein add up: The self-effacing woman behind the theory of relativity by Matthew Stanley (Sciences, Book Review)
- Good natured: How terrestrial life and the environment evolve together by Louise Fabiani Environment, Arts Review)
- Invasion of the dark fantasies: A group of friends shoot a movie about aliens, to uncanny effect by Lucy Scholes (Fiction, Book Review)
- The myth of Marie Antoinette: An average woman forced to rise to exceptional circumstances by Catriona Seth (Biography, Book Review)
- Informal empire: The wider impact of India from the Red Sea to the Pacific by Daud Ali (Ancient History, Book Review)
- Kindling self-regard: What readers like most in a book by Tim Parks (Afterthoughts, Book Review)
- An empire dissolved: The realities of living through a revolution by Anna Parker (In Brief, In Brief Review)
- Domestic espionage: A 'barometer' of the nation's wartime mood by Paul Winter (In Brief, In Brief Review)
- The respiration of peaches: Witnessing life thorugh poetry by Heather Cass White (In Brief, In Brief Review)
- 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!
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!