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. 

Huge congratulations to the TLS -
it was 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.

In the week of the 18th April 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review:  Trying too hard: The elusive pursuit of the greatest good for the greatest number by Nikhil Venkatesh
  • Politics, Book Review:  A light unto the nationalists?  How non-western countries view Israel and the Palestinians by Adam Sutcliffe
  • Politics, Essay:  Where to? The future of Greenland by Lindsey Hilsum
  • Film, Arts Review:   Calf Love: Louise Courvoisier’s portrait of rural France by Muriel Zagha
  • British Literature:  Book Review:  The playhouse is the thing: Shakespeare’s apprenticeship as actor and dramatist at the Theatre by Peter Holland
  • European Literature, Book Review:  Escape to an alternative country: How artists found community and freedom under the Soviets by Bradley A. Gorski
  • Natuarl History, Book Review:  Darwin for Everyman: How scientific debates about evolution went public by Gregory Radick
  • Original Poems:  Bright Night by Jana Prikryl
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Our private natures: A collection of contradictory desires and the rewards of solitude by Ben Wilkinson
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Mistakes of intuition: Reconsidering the categories on which we build our lives by Catrina Davies
  • 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 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 February 2025, these included:

  • Scramble through Africa: A story of imperial ‘folly and hubris’ 
  • What’s in a name: Are racial biases changing?
  • Limits of liberalism: The History Man at fifty
  • A write-off: The variety and fragility of the world’s minority scripts
  • Traditional fayre: How nutritional science replaced the health regimen
  • Hiroshima baby: A memoir that combines literary history, eco-elegy and polemic
  • We are the news: Poems, stories, essays and artwork from Gaza

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!