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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. 

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.  

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


This week's TLS includes a book review: Death becomes them: A philosophical inquiry into how animals perceive mortality
This week's TLS includes a book review: 
Death becomes them:  A philosophical inquiry into how animals perceive mortality
by Ian Ground (Contemporary Philosophy)

In the week of the 20th December 2024 the TLS includes:

  • Festive rights and wrongs: A famous philosopher decries Christmas eating habits by Barbara J. King (Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review)
  • The national living room:  On pubs and public culture by Declan Ryan (Food and Drink, Book Review) 
  • Arts & Books Roundups:  Books of the Year 2024.  The TLS contributors choose their favourites  
  •  Sex, lies, sabbats: France’s deadliest witch-hunt revisited by Laura Kounine (Early Modern History, Book Review)
  •  Humility by Carl Dennis (Original poems) and Ragged Claws by A.E. Stallings
  • It's a dog's life?  Sad human lives meausred against those of happy canines by Simone Gubler (Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review)
  • Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood:  Growing up in the shadow of Christopher Robin by Ada Coghen (In Brief, In Brief Review)
  •  The TLS Christmas Quiz 2024  by Tony Lurcock (Crosswords and Quiz)
  • Christmas before Ozempic:  festive eating by Ian Sansom (Afterthoughts, Column) 
  •  A solitary Yule feast:  Festive fragments and wintry sotries by Pablo Scheffer (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!
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.

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