The Times Literary Supplement
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The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a fortnightly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
History
The TLS first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times but became a separate publication in 1914.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974, when signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship of John Gross,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> It is edited by Martin Ivens, who succeeded Stig Abell in June 2020.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was published weekly until August 2025, when it moved to a fortnightly schedule.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Many writers have described the publication as indispensable. Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> described the TLS as "the most serious, authoritative, witty, diverse and stimulating cultural publication in all the five languages I speak".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> its history is not without gaffes: it missed James Joyce entirely,Template:Citation needed and commented only negatively on Lucian Freud from 1945 until 1978, when a portrait of his appeared on the cover.<ref>"20.07.11 London W11", The Times Literary Supplement, 29 July 2011: 3.</ref>
The TLS has included essays, reviews and poems by D. M. Thomas,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>"TLS writers past and present", Times Online. </ref>
Editors
- 1902: James Thursfield
- 1902: Bruce Richmond
- 1938: D. L. Murray (David Leslie Murray)
- 1945: Stanley Morison
- 1948: Alan Payan Pryce-Jones<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1959: Arthur Crook
- 1974: John Gross
- 1981: Jeremy Treglown
- 1991: Ferdinand Mount
- 2003: Peter Stothard
- 2016: Stig Abell
- 2020: Martin Ivens
See also
References
Further reading
- May, Derwent (2001). Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement. HarperCollins. Template:ISBN.
External links
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