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.   

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 11th July 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Social & Cultural Studies, Book Review:   Behind closed doors?  The private sphere is under threat by Cordelia Fine 
  • Modern History, Book Review:  The illusion of freedom:  Slavery and race in Revolutionary France by Christopher L. Miller
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Crossed destinies:  A novel of twenty-first century friendship - and business by Jude Cook
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Speech and silence:  A city couple move to the country by Pablo Scheffer
  • Poetry, In Brief Review:   Orchestrating the past:  A painful past relationship charted through poetry by Phoebe Walker 
  • Britisih Literature, Book Review:  Byron among the women:  The poet's exasperation with his provincial upbringing by Seamus Perry
  • Biography, Book Review:  Finding comfort on Misery Mountain:  A rescue cat saves her human by Noreen Masud
  • Biography, Book Review:  24 hours to 1984:  George Orwell's life in one imaginery day by Jeff Wasserstrom
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: A conveyor belt to the cooker:  The troubling treatment of animals at festivals by Barbara J.King
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: Molecules on strike:  Travelling through time and climbing the corporate ladder by Colm McKenna
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Resistance and reckonings:  Norwegian sources for wartime occupation by Johanne Elster Hanson
  • 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 May 2025, these included...

  • An unhealthy addiction: The public’s ‘co-dependent’ relationship with Diana
  • Behind the velvet rope: The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
  • Putting the blame on Spain: Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
  • Mrs Dalloway at 100: The life and afterlife of Woolf’s classic
  • King Dollar’s shaky throne and fall: Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
  • Life after death?: What happens when the human brain shuts down
  • ‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’: What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

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!