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 4th July 2025 the TLS includes:

  • Politics, Book Review:   Broken Britain and America: The centre left has joined the populist right in despairing of good government by Sam Freedman
  • Film,  Arts Review:  Jane Austen in Paris: British romantic comedy seen from a French perspective by Muriel Zagha
  • Linguistics, Book Review:  From the steppes of central Asia: ;The global reach of the Indo-European mother tongue by James Clackson
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Not exactly charasmatic: An ordinary man is forced to grapple with extraordinary times by Alex Clark
  • Literary Criticsm, Book Review:  Blurred lines: What makes a novel of ideas? by Benjamin Markovits
  • Original Poems:  Artificial Intelligence by Micheal Hofmann
  • British Politics, Book Review:  I'll be there for you: The limits of political friendship by Nicola Shulman  
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: Insatiable desires: First memories of tea and cake by Oonagh Devitt Tremblay
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Constellations of detail:  First love in a foreign language by Katie Tobin
  • Natural History, Book Review:  The world in miniature: The secrets of natural history museums by Rachel Morris
  • Natural History, Book Review:  In the deep dark wood: A war veteran finds healing in Britain’s ancient forests by Chloe Dalton
  • 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 May 2025, these included...

  • An unhealthy addiction: The public’s ‘co-dependent’ relationship with Diana
  • Behind the velvet rope: The former editor of Vanity Fair looks back on an era of excess
  • Putting the blame on Spain: Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
  • Mrs Dalloway at 100: The life and afterlife of Woolf’s classic
  • King Dollar’s shaky throne and fall: Can the world’s dominant currency survive Donald Trump?
  • Life after death?: What happens when the human brain shuts down
  • ‘Literature is the antidote to numbness’: What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

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