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The Times Literary Supplement
EditorMartin Ivens
CategoriesLiterature,current affairs
Frequency50 per year
PublisherNews UK
Founded1902;122 years ago(1902)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.the-tls.co.uk
ISSN0307-661X

TheTimes Literary Supplement(TLS) is a weeklyliterary reviewpublished inLondonbyNews UK,a subsidiary ofNews Corp.[1]

History

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TheTLSfirst appeared in 1902 as a supplement toThe Timesbut became a separate publication in 1914.[2]Many distinguished writers have contributed, includingT. S. Eliot,Henry JamesandVirginia Woolf.Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974, when signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship ofJohn Gross.This aroused great controversy. "Anonymity had once been appropriate when it was a general rule at other publications, but it had ceased to be so", Gross said. "In addition I personally felt that reviewers ought to take responsibility for their opinions."

Martin Amiswas a member of the editorial staff early in his career.Philip Larkin's poem "Aubade", his final poetic work, was first published in theChristmas-week issue of theTLSin 1977. While it has long been regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent critical publications,[citation needed]its history is not without gaffes: it missedJames Joyceentirely,[citation needed]and commented only negatively onLucian Freudfrom 1945 until 1978, when a portrait of his appeared on the cover.[3]

Its editorial offices are based inThe News Building,London.[1]It is edited byMartin Ivens,who succeededStig Abellin June 2020.[4][5]

TheTLShas included essays, reviews and poems byD. M. Thomas,[6][7]John Ashbery,Italo Calvino,Patricia Highsmith,Milan Kundera,Philip Larkin,Mario Vargas Llosa,Joseph Brodsky,Gore Vidal,Orhan Pamuk,Geoffrey HillandSeamus Heaney,among others.[8]

Many writers have described the publication as indispensable;Mario Vargas Llosa,novelist and the 2010 winner of theNobel Prize in Literature,[9]had once described theTLSas "the most serious, authoritative, witty, diverse and stimulating cultural publication in all the five languages I speak".[10]

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"Contact us".TLS.Archivedfrom the original on 24 June 2022.Retrieved26 June2022.
  2. ^"The ultimate review of reviews".London Evening Standard.6 November 2001.Archivedfrom the original on 30 April 2013.Retrieved20 July2012.
  3. ^"20.07.11 London W11",The Times Literary Supplement,29 July 2011: 3.
  4. ^Comerford, Ruth (24 June 2020)."Martin Ivens to become TLS editor as Stig Abell departs".The Bookseller.Retrieved1 July2020.
  5. ^Tobitt, Charlotte (24 June 2020)."Ex-Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens takes helm at TLS as Stig Abell focuses on radio".PressGazette.Retrieved1 July2020.
  6. ^Thomas, D. M. (1983)."Ararat".The TLS asked me to review an Anthology of Armenian Poetry, edited by Diana der Hovanessian.
  7. ^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.
  8. ^"TLS writers past and present",Times Online.
  9. ^"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010".The Nobel Prize.7 October 2010.Archivedfrom the original on 8 October 2019.Retrieved17 December2019.
  10. ^Fulford, Robert (Spring 2014)."Neither Times, nor Literary, nor Supplement".Queen's Quarterly.121:72–81. Archived fromthe originalon 6 April 2017.Retrieved17 December2019.

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