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 14th November 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Poetry, Book Review:  Blazing graft: Charting Seamus Heaney’s Wordsworthian journey by Roy Foster
  • Technology, Book Review:  What the public wants?  Writing novels by AI – and committee by Gordon Fraser  
  • Arts & Books roundups:   Books of the year 2025:  Our contributors choose their favourites  
  • Visual Arts, Arts Review:   Methods and materials:  Inside a writer's workshop by Boyd Tonkin
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Adventures in a foreign tongue: A happy band of travellers goes in search of a lost Japan by Becca Rothfield
  • Literary criticism:  Book Review:  Too much information: A history of English literary studies that refuses to be relevant by Daniel Karlin
  • Original poems:  Ars Poetica by D. Nurkse
  • North American politics, Book Review:  Everybody's fault but their own: Why the Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2024 by Sarah Baxter
  • Environment, Book Review:  The end of the world or the end of the month: The tension between economic and environmental policy by Emily Jones
  • The media, Essay:  Who controls the past:  The BBC is restricting access to its archives by J.E. Smyth
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  A love-hate relationship:  Revisiting a novel that marched towards modernity by Anna Aslanyan
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Dashing off short stories:  Anthony Trollope's compulsions to write and to earn money by Grace Moore
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Night calls: The toponymical clues to avian dwellings by Brian Morton
  • Travel, Book Review:  Graveyard elegies: A literary guide to cemeteries around the world by Guy Stagg  
  • 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 most affordable (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

The best value is £89.99 for the year - it's print and digital.  As well as those benefits listed above, it also includes the print edition delivered to your door fortnightly.   Monthly, it's £8.99.   

 

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!