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| Editor | Martin Ivens |
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| Categories | Literature,current affairs |
| Frequency | 26 per year |
| Publisher | News UK |
| Founded | 1902; 123 years ago (1902) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0307-661X |
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a fortnightlyliterary review published inLondon byNews UK, a subsidiary ofNews Corp.[1]
TheTLS first appeared in 1902 as a supplement toThe Times but became a separate publication in 1914.[2] Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974, when signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship ofJohn 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 inThe News Building, London.[1] It is edited byMartin Ivens, who succeededStig 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 theNobel Prize in Literature,[7] described theTLS as "the most serious, authoritative, witty, diverse and stimulating cultural publication in all the five languages I speak".[8]
Many distinguished writers have contributed, includingT. S. Eliot,Henry James andVirginia Woolf.Philip Larkin's poem "Aubade", his final poetic work, was first published in theChristmas-week issue of theTLS 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 missedJames Joyce entirely,[citation needed] and commented only negatively onLucian Freud from 1945 until 1978, when a portrait of his appeared on the cover.[10]
TheTLS has included essays, reviews and poems byD. 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 andSeamus Heaney, among others.[13]
The TLS asked me to review an Anthology of Armenian Poetry, edited by Diana der Hovanessian.
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.
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