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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.  

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.  

Subscribe to the TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, here

In the week of the 26th December 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review:  Cultivating our gardern:  How to lvie a good life by Miranda France
  • British literature, Book Review:   Murder, they wrote:  The ingredients of a classic crime novel by Nicola Upson
  • Theatre, Arts Review:  Marionettes and machinations:  Puppets and disrupters abound in this season’s family shows by Toby Lichtig
  • Visual arts, Book Review:   The final piece of the puzzle: The secret meaning of Vermeer’s art by Timothy Brook
  • Ancient History, Book Review:  Antique land:  The origins of Europe by Jas Elsner
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Behind the Baltic barricades: An epic of Estonian resistance to tsarist rule by Ian Thomson
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Between the pages: Stories of negative space and roads not taken by Anna Aslanyan
  • Original poems:  Two poems by Alan Jenkins
  • Bibliography, Book Review:  Cracking the code:  Early cryptography and the individuals behind it by Sebastian Dows-Miller
  • British politics, Book Review:  Mid-term madness: By-elections and the state of the nation by Ian Cawood
  • Afterthoughts, Book Review: Cultural work: The Italian writer who could never say no by Tim Parks
  • Letter from:  Essay:  Paris, 100 years of art deco by Christopher Mooney
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Worker numbers: The facts and figures of wartime industry by Lily Ford
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Marked men: Tales of joining the other side by Michael Holzman
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Quite Sundays:  Life in the 'in-between times' by Douglas Field
  • 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.  In August 2025, these included..

  • Life beyond literature: A year without reading
  • What lies ahead for fiction?: AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling
  • Croissants and coq au vin: Eating your way through the arrondissements
  • Anti-modernist crusader: King Charles’s interventions in public debates about architecture
  • Inadmissable evidence: A woman’s fight for justice in a strict Jewish sect
  • More, now, again: To what extent are addicts responsible for their actions?

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!