The Times Literary Supplement

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The Times Literary Supplement
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Editor Martin Ivens
Categories Literature, current affairs
Frequency26 per year
Publisher News UK
Founded1902;123 years ago (1902)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based in London
LanguageEnglish
Website www.the-tls.com
ISSN 0307-661X

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a fortnightly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. [1]

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History

The TLS first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times but became a separate publication in 1914. [2] Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974, when signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship of John Gross, [3] who "personally felt that reviewers ought to take responsibility for their opinions."

Martin Amis was a member of the editorial staff early in his career.

Its editorial offices are based in The News Building, London. [1] It is edited by Martin Ivens, who succeeded Stig Abell in June 2020. [4] [5] It was published weekly until August 2025, when it moved to a fortnightly schedule. [6]

Many writers have described the publication as indispensable. Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, [7] described the TLS as "the most serious, authoritative, witty, diverse and stimulating cultural publication in all the five languages I speak". [8]

Notable contributors

Many distinguished writers have contributed, including T. S. Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Philip Larkin's poem "Aubade", his final poetic work, was first published in the Christmas-week issue of the TLS in 1977. While it has long been regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent critical publications, [9] its history is not without gaffes: it missed James Joyce entirely,[ citation needed ] and commented only negatively on Lucian Freud from 1945 until 1978, when a portrait of his appeared on the cover. [10]

The TLS has included essays, reviews and poems by D. M. Thomas, [11] [12] John Ashbery, Italo Calvino, Patricia Highsmith, Milan Kundera, Philip Larkin, Mario Vargas Llosa, Joseph Brodsky, Gore Vidal, Orhan Pamuk, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney, among others. [13]

Editors

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Contact us". TLS. Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "The ultimate review of reviews". London Evening Standard. 6 November 2001. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Trewin, Ion (11 January 2011). "John Gross obituary". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Comerford, Ruth (24 June 2020). "Martin Ivens to become TLS editor as Stig Abell departs". The Bookseller . Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  5. ↑ Tobitt, Charlotte (24 June 2020). "Ex-Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens takes helm at TLS as Stig Abell focuses on radio". PressGazette. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "TLS announces changes". InPublishing. 11 August 2025.
  7. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010". The Nobel Prize. 7 October 2010. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  8. ↑ Fulford, Robert (Spring 2014). "Neither Times, nor Literary, nor Supplement". Queen's Quarterly. 121: 72–81. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "Times Literary Supplement (TLS) | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
  10. ↑ "20.07.11 London W11", The Times Literary Supplement, 29 July 2011: 3.
  11. ↑ Thomas, D. M. (1983). "Ararat". The TLS asked me to review an Anthology of Armenian Poetry, edited by Diana der Hovanessian.
  12. ↑ McCulloch, Andrew. "'Stone'". The Times Literary Supplement. In 1978, the poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas drew a useful distinction between twentieth-century English and Russian poetry in a TLS review of a collection of poems by Osip Mandelstam.
  13. ↑ "TLS writers past and present", Times Online.
  14. ↑ "The Times Literary Supplement under Alan Pryce-Jones". www.gale.com. Retrieved 6 October 2024.

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