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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.  

Subscribe to the TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, here


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 edition of the 20th March 2026, the TLS includes:

  • Letters, Book Review:  Darkness visible:  The struggle between good and evil in William Golding’s fiction by Alan Jenkins
  • Biography, Book Review:  Clock stopper:  The many lives of W.H. Auden by Ian Sansom
  • Contemporary philosophy, Book Review:  The feeling of being alive:  Why do we experience consciousness?  by Tim Crane
  • Film, Book Review:  Wild typography:  The relationship betwen film and the written word by Zoe Guttenplan
  • Twentieth-century history & later, Book Review:  Luck of the devil:  Chance and ruthlessness in the rise of Communist China by Isabel Hilton
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Like a child:  Coming of age in 1980s Dublin by Lucy Thynne
  • Fiction, Book Review:   A life of one's own:  Stories of exile and homecoming by Alison Kelly
  • European Literature, Book Review:  Mafia man:  The life of one of Italy's greatest modern writers by Philpi Cooke
  • Original poems: After loss by Dan O'Brien
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  The sun shines everywhere:  Arguments for renewable energy sources by Erica Gies
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  A landmark exchange:  The ethical questions of prisoner swaps by Howard Amos
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  A zoological undertaker:  An account of intimate engagement with the non-human world by CHarles Foster
  • Natural history, Book Review: Tree cover:  Forests in Russia's history and imagination by Darra Goldstein
  • 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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