The Times Literary Supplement

The TLS first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to The Times but became a separate publication in 1914.{{cite news |date=6 November 2001 |title=The ultimate review of reviews |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/the-ultimate-review-of-reviews-6352818.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430120156/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/the-ultimate-review-of-reviews-6352818.html |archive-date=30 April 2013 |access-date=20 July 2012 |newspaper=London Evening Standard}} Many distinguished writers have contributed, including T. S. Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Reviews were normally anonymous until 1974, when signed reviews were gradually introduced during the editorship of John 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 Amis was a member of the editorial staff early in his career. 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,{{Cite web |title=Times Literary Supplement (TLS) {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Times-Literary-Supplement |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} its history is not without gaffes: it missed James Joyce entirely,{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} and commented only negatively on Lucian Freud from 1945 until 1978, when a portrait of his appeared on the cover."20.07.11 London W11", The Times Literary Supplement, 29 July 2011: 3.

Its editorial offices are based in The News Building, London. It is edited by Martin Ivens, who succeeded Stig Abell in June 2020.{{Cite magazine |url= https://www.thebookseller.com/news/martin-ivens-named-new-editor-tls-1207920# |title=Martin Ivens to become TLS editor as Stig Abell departs |last=Comerford |first=Ruth |date=24 June 2020 |magazine=The Bookseller |access-date=1 July 2020}}{{Cite news |url= https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ex-sunday-times-editor-martin-ivens-takes-helm-at-tls-as-stig-abell-focuses-on-radio/ |title=Ex-Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens takes helm at TLS as Stig Abell focuses on radio |last=Tobitt |first=Charlotte |date=24 June 2020 |newspaper=PressGazette |access-date=1 July 2020}}

The TLS has included essays, reviews and poems by D. M. Thomas,{{cite web|url=https://www.dmthomasonline.net/articles_123042.html|title=Ararat|date=1983|first=D. M.|last=Thomas|quote=The TLS asked me to review an Anthology of Armenian Poetry, edited by Diana der Hovanessian.}}{{cite news|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/stone-poem-of-the-week/|title='Stone'|work=The Times Literary Supplement|first=Andrew|last=McCulloch|quote=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.}} 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090517064552/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article2392714.ece "TLS writers past and present"], Times Online.

Many writers have described the publication as indispensable. Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist and the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2010/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010|date=October 7, 2010|website=The Nobel Prize|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008224103/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2010/summary/|archive-date=October 8, 2019|access-date=December 17, 2019}} described the TLS as "the most serious, authoritative, witty, diverse and stimulating cultural publication in all the five languages I speak".{{Cite journal|last=Fulford|first=Robert|date=Spring 2014|title=Neither Times, nor Literary, nor Supplement|url=http://www.robertfulford.com/tls-2014.html|journal=Queen's Quarterly|volume=121|pages=72–81|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406030225/http://robertfulford.com/tls-2014.html|url-status=dead}}

• 1902: James Thursfield
• 1902: Bruce Richmond
• 1938: D. L. Murray (David Leslie Murray)
• 1945: Stanley Morison
• 1948: Alan Payan Pryce-Jones{{Cite web |title=The Times Literary Supplement under Alan Pryce-Jones |url=https://www.gale.com/intl/essays/mcvea-treglown-times-literary-supplement-under-alan-pryce-jones |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=www.gale.com |language=en}}
• 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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• May, Derwent (2001). [https://archive.org/details/criticaltimeshis0000mayd Critical Times: The History of the Times Literary Supplement]. HarperCollins. {{ISBN|0-00-711449-4}}.

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