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.[1]
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,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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
- 1902: James Thursfield
- 1902: Bruce Richmond
- 1938: D. L. Murray (David Leslie Murray)
- 1945: Stanley Morison
- 1948: Alan Payan Pryce-Jones[14]
- 1959: Arthur Crook
- 1974: John Gross
- 1981: Jeremy Treglown
- 1991: Ferdinand Mount
- 2003: Peter Stothard
- 2016: Stig Abell
- 2020: Martin Ivens
See also
References
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- ↑ "20.07.11 London W11", The Times Literary Supplement, 29 July 2011: 3.
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- ↑ "TLS writers past and present", Times Online.
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Further reading
- May, Derwent (2001). Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement. HarperCollins. Template:ISBN.
External links
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