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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.   

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 22nd August 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Biography, Book Review:  Across the open sea:  A writer is consoled by nature afte rthe loss of her husband by Alison Kelly
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Messy, grieving, joyful:  Growing up in 1980s Brooklyn by Douglas Field
  • Food & Drink, Book Review:  'Celestial walnuts':  The pleasures and challenges of making - and describing - great wines by George Berridge
  • Contemperary philosophy, Book Review:   More, now, again:  To waht extent are addicts responsiblity for their actions?  by Crispin Sartwell
  • Medieval history, Book Review:  The things they come out with:  Talking infants in medieval French literature by Betinna Bildhauer
  • Essays, Book Review:  Two voices:  On writing fiction and journalism, and how they intertwine by Ann Kennedy Smith
  • Theatre, Arts Review:  Let's face the music and dance:  Three summer shows featuring Broadway greats by Lucy Dallas
  • Medieval history, Book Review:  Follow the money:  Banishment as a response to medieval usury by John Tolan
  • Original Poems: Desire by Sean O'Brien
  • Afterthoughts, Book Review:    Harsh lessons:  What makes a good teacher?  by Irina Dumitrescu
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:   Intellectual opposition:  A reconstruction of daily life through newspapers by Alexander Kazamias
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  King of limbs:  A new convention of belonging by Brian Morton
  • 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 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 June 2025, these included.. 

  • ‘A dear little genius’: Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution
  • Young and damned: Three teen-centric novels arrive at a time of national soul-searching
  • Beyond the longest day: How the US snatched the glory in Normandy
  • Already slipping away: A love triangle in a France where nothing comes easy
  • Our young people: Una Marson’s magazine
  • Facebook in the firing line: A whistleblower on the company’s relationship with morality
  • Summer books 2025: Twenty-four TLS writers share their summer reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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!