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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 19th September 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Autobiography, Book Review:  After Mao:  the sequel to Wild Swans by Nick Holdstock
  • Autobiography, Book Review:  Sand in the gears:  A writer looks back at his life in puzzlement and gratitude by Norma Clarke
  • Theatre, Book Review:   Early modern autofiction?  Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe by Emma Smith 
  • History of philosophy, Book Review:  Fighting for the future:  When revolutions become civil wars by Jack Jacobs 
  • Greek, Book Review:  A mentor's odyssey:  The epic of homecoming in a new translation by A.E. Stallings
  • Fiction, Book Review: This selfish life:  Kiran Desai's long-awaited, 'oceanic' second novel by Dinah Birch
  • Fiction, Asian Literature:  Book Review:  Wartime romance:  One of China’s greatest love stories and an entertaining miscellany by Frances Wood
  • Economics, Book Review:  Paying Nature's price:  To save hte planet, do we have to destroy it?  by Brett Christophers
  • Poetry, Essay:   The swarming King of nothing:  Four previously unpublished poems by John Berryman by Shane McCrae
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Unacknowledged longing:  A lifetime of memories in a single day by Julia Dallaway
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Sympathy for the troll:  A new look at the unappealing figures of Nordic folklore by Paul Binding
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Stag beetle circus: National creatures from the fox to the flea by Brian Morton
  • Natural history, Book Review:  For peat's sake: Trekking through a waterlogged landscape by Kate Simpson
  • 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 July 2025, these included.. 

 

  • Blurred lines: What makes a novel of ideas?
  • Breaking The Waves: How Virginia Woolf righted ‘one chapter gone wrong’
  • Through bushes and briars: Ancient rural skills in a modern world
  • The skull beneath the skin: A strident call for the decolonization of national collections
  • Deep State vs Donald Trump: How accountable are US intelligence agencies to the president and Congress?
  • A stranger in his own land: Henry James’s return to the United States

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