The Times Literary Supplement

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]

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]

• 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

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