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. 

Huge congratulations to the TLS -
it was the Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award 
(scroll down the page when you click through)!

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 week of the 9th May 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Visual Arts, Art Review:  Night visions: Fantastic gloomth: Victor Hugo the artist by James Hall
  • Culture, Sport, Book Review:  Blood, bruises and loss: Boxing’s decline from glory days and its continuing fascination by Diana Leca
  • History, Book Review:   Finding the secret sauce: Manhattan’s peaceful transition from Dutch to English rule by Rebecca Fraser
  • Social & Cultural Studies, Book Review:    Making monsters: Primeval fears still fire the human imagination by Jan Machielsen
  • Theology:  Book Review:  Philosopher of belonging:A medieval thinker for modern times by Angela Knobel
  • Afterthoughts: Column: Women and men: Elena Ferrante and identity by Tim Parks
  • Fiction, Book Review:   Family tree: What it means to be a survivor by Nicki Hitchcott
  • Lives, Diaries, Book Review;  Sketching a landscape: Eight years in the evolution of an Australian artist by Fiona Gruber
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Underwater portraits: The elusiveness of professional mermaids by James Cook
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Witch-burning; A memoir of a free woman shadowed by others’ views by Terri Apter
  • 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!