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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.    There's a Poem of the Week, when the TLS revisits orginal poetry, first published in the TLS, with a new introduciton;  and there's Twenty questions, which is a series of author interviews.  Footnotes to Plato looks at the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers, and there are cartoons, The Podcast and Crossword and Quiz - lots to interest! 

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.  

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In the summer of 2025, it moved from a weekly to expanded fortnightly format, and the fortnightly format is published 26 times a year (instead of 50 times) but it has 48 pages instead of just under 30.  And the TLS has relaunched its website, which updates every week and offers new articles as well as digital access to the historic archive.  

In the week of the 6th February 2026 the TLS includes:

  • Twentieth-century history & later, Book Review:  Tainted legacies: How Franco and Juan Carlos have tried to cheat history by Paul Preston
  • Medieval history, Book Review:  Lunar exploration: The Moon’s influence on literature and scientific inquiry by Mary Hitchman
  • Music Book Review:  Bigging up 'the Boss': Bruce Springsteen’s breakthrough album by John McMillianyn
  • Sport, Book Review:  Money ball: The journey of football’s biggest competition over a century by Mike Jakeman
  • Early modern history, Book Review:  Succession acts: Did the Stuart dynasty begin honestly?by Lucy Wooding
  • Literature, Book Review:   Grand tour: Travelogue and social commentary from Charles Charles Dickens’s year in Italy by Grace Moore
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Acts of resurrection: A love story between the present and the past by Clemmie Read
  • Original poems: Moscow by C.K. Stead
  • Letters, Essay: Treasure hunting in old letters: The fate of personal archives by Trevor Pateman
  • South American politics, Book Review:  Checking out: Why Peru’s people are disillusioned with elites by Michael Reid
  • Letter from, Essay: Letter from Land of the Leopard: Big cats in ‘one of the remaining wild places on Earth' by Juhea Kim 
  • Afterthoughts, Column:   The unwanted child: Horror movies and medieval literature by Irina Dumitrescu
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Golden landscape: Following the seasons from a run-down farmhouse in Tuscany by Caroline Moorehead
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Subtle and submarine: Migration and imagination across the Indian Ocean by Frankin Nelson
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Green revolution: Engaging with India's environmental development by Andrew Robinson
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Whalespeak: Articulating human connectedness with nature by Helen Bynum
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: Pre- and post-caballine: A tale of of horse evolution and domestication by Natalie Lawrence
  • In Brief, In Brief Reveiw:  Them and us:  Translating warnings, questions, songs and sign language from animals by Sy Montgomery
  • 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 literary crossword and quiz, a regular online column looking at the ethical issues today, 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 most affordable (one month free, £6.99 a month thereafter) -  it includes unrestricted access to the TLS website, full use of the TLS Archive starting in 1902 and the TLS first-look with the weekly newsletter.   Best value is £89.99 for the year - the Print and Digital.  As well as the previous benefits listed, it also includes the print edition delivered to your door fortnightly.   

 

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.

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