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.   

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.  And last year, it was the Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award! 

In the week of the 30th May 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Economics, Book Review:  King Dollar's shaky throne and fall:  Can the world's dominiant currency survive Donald Trump?  by Edward Chancellor
  • Literature:  'Literature is the antedote to numbness'.   What questions should today's writers and artists be asking?  Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS
  • Medieval History, Essay:  Charter accounting:  How an original Magna Carta was uncovered in Harvard by David Carpender and Nicholas Vincent
  • Literary criticism:  Book Review:  Word and image: How 'The Pickwick Papers' revolutionized Victorian publishing by Jacqueline Banerjee
  • Afterthoughts, Column:  Signs of greatness: Childhood precocity and the saints by CHildhood precocity and the saints
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  'That'll be the handlebars:  Reflections on the two-wheeled life' by David Horspool
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Planet-saving kelpt:  Environmental collapse and the through lines of history by Lily Sheehy
  • Natural history, Book Review:  Darwin's strangest idea: The part played by beauty in sexual selection by Marlene Zuk
  • Sciences, Book Review:  Life after death? What happens when the human brain shuts down by Raymond Tallis
  • Sciences, Book Review:  The final frontier:  Two contrasting visions of humanitiy's future in space by Richard Dunn
  • 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!