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 25th April 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Twentieth Century History & Later, Book Review:  A dictator in pyjamas: Uncovering the dark histories behind General Pinochet’s arrest in London by Grace Livingstone
  • Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review:  To know or not to know: Uncomfortable truths about ourselves are the hardest to accept by Costica Bradatan
  • Architecture, Book Review:  Serious houses: A craftsman’s guide to churches by Jonathan Buckley
  • Fiction, Book Review:   Coming up for air: A father and husband finds freedom in the roads by Philip Womack
  • British Literature:  Book Review:  Small town minds: Rediscovering a ‘classic’ novel of claustrophobic Scottish life by Richard Price
  • Essays, Book Review:  Underbaked: ‘Lazy’ essays by the author of Empire Falls by Megan Marz
  • Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review:  Preservation orders: The philosophy of conservation by Jane O'Grady
  • Religious Culture, Book Review:  Parting of the ways: The ambiguity of Christian attitudes to Judaism by John Tolan
  • Technology, Book Review:  The new arms race: AI and the West: a call for unity or a path to technological nationalism? by Daniel Susskind 
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  We tell ourselves stories: When to surrender to fiction by Phillipa Conlon
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Writing history: An alternative vision of the past and the future by Tom Sperlinger
  • 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!