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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 18th July 2025 the TLS includes:

  • North American politics:  Deep State vs Donald Trump: How accountable are US intelligence agencies to the president and Congress?  by Richard Norton-Taylor
  • Literature, Book Review:  A stranger in his own land:  Henry James's return to the United States by Alicia Rix
  • Contemporary Philosophy, Book Review:   A good life is shared:  Commitment beats detachment by Michael Hauskeller
  • Natural History, Book Review:  A tree in time: The evolution of the mighty oak by Harriet Rix
  • Modern History, Book Review:  An offshore balance of power: How Britain addressed security policy after Waterloo by Andrew Roberts
  • Fiction, Book Review:  Neither, nor, both and..A young woman in 1960s Sweden wants to ‘have everything’ by Sheena Joughin
  • European Literature, Book Review:  Prison without a door: A radical Norwegian novelist addresses women’s unhappy lot by Dinah Birch
  • In Brief, In Brief Review:  Remaking the ableiest world: The political edge of self-help by Ros Taylor
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: A good pair of goggles: Infectious enthusiasm for cold-water immersion by David Horspool
  • In Brief, In Brief Review: 'Buzz-saw' jaws: The half-billion-year evolutionary saga of sharks by Amorina Kingdon
  • NB Column: Memoirs’ trustworthiness, Georgette Heyer vs Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson’s narrow fellow, Michael McMillan’s absurdities, Literary anniversaries
  • 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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