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.  

Give a gift subscription to the Times Literary Supplement today!
Give a gift subscription to the Times Literary Supplement today!

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 15th November 2024 the TLS includes:

  • Books of the year 2024 - Arts and books roundups Contributors choose their favourites
  • Capital in the closet:The slow retreat of homophobia, told through London lives by James Cahill (Social and Cultural Studies, Book Review)
  • Old school cynacism: Two interpretations of an ancien régime comedy of manners by Harrison Stetler  (Theatre, Arts Review)
  • Water world: The Navy’s vital role in Britain’s past and future by Andrew Lambert (Modern History, Book Review)
  • Give me your answer: Two siblings fend for themselves in a totalitarian state by Nat Segnit (Fiction, Book Review)
  • The taste for plain sailing: A history of travel and maps that record where people have gone by Christina Thompson (Maps, Book Review)
  • It's all in your head: The culture of brain surgery within the history of medicine by Agnes Arnold-Foster (Medicine, Book Review) 
  • Writing chops: Recipes to spark joy by Keith Miller (In Brief, In Brief Review)
  • Swimning lessons: Tragedy and joy in the former GDR by Lucy Popescu (In Brief, In Brief Review)
  • In the fray: How to teach contemporary literature by Tim Parks (Afterthoughts, Column)
  • 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!

Subscribe to the TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, here

 

In October 2024, some highlights from the TLS were:

  • Voyage around his father: A memoir of modern Brazil from the testimony of a truck driver
  • It’s all a bit rich: The British elite’s quest to be viewed as ‘ordinary’
  • A hunger for truth: Why the Nobel laureate Han Kang makes uncomfortable reading for the Korean authorities
  • Still a rich boys’ club: Women’s long struggle to break into the Wall Street network
  • British values: What makes a national literature?
  • Picnics in the sun: How W. H. Auden was shaped by the idea of England
  • Hitting racism for six: West Indian cricket as a symbol of post-imperial pride

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!