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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 edition of the 17th April 2026, the TLS includes:

  • Twentieth-century history & later, Book Review: History lessons?  China, America and the danger of war by Philip Zelikow
  • Visual Arts, Arts Review:  'Turn heads into naked people:  Distance and connectionin Lucian Freud's work by James Cahill
  • Autobiography, Arts Review:  Go deeper:  Blake Morrison's guide to life writing by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Out of sheer intention:  Writing about others as a means to write about yourself by Catherine Taylor
  • Fiction, Book Review:  This shaken globe:  A group of affluent friends flirts with disaster by Heather Cass White
  • Audio, Arts Review:  Trumpeting, roars and grumbles:  How elephants communicate, and why we should listen by Barnaby Phillips
  • Food, Book Review:  Lovely grub:  A peripatetic tour of the British food scene by Pen Vogler
  • British literature, Book Review:  The tune of our catch:  Transporting an Elizabethan poet to the twentieth century by Michael Caines
  • Original poems:  Two Poems by David Harsent
  • Biography, Book Review:  Being Jan Morris:  The travel writer, historian and pioneering trans woman by Julian Evans
  • Social & cultural studies, Book Review:  Birth strike:  Japan's demographic crisis by David Warren
  • Afterthoughts:  Poring over the pot:  The pleasure of reading authors who restlessly return to old themes by Tim Parks
  • Natural History, Book Review:  That sinking feeling:  The diversity of Britain's wetlands and the blight of pollution by Vanessa Taylor
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Discreet exile:  Playing with espionage history by Justin Warshaw
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  High speed:  Exploring international train lines by Andrew Martin
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Don't sweat the big stuff:  Writing while the cakes rise by Miranda France
  • 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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