is a weekly review of books and arts published from London in newspaper form since 1902. As its name suggests, it was originally (1902-14) a free supplement, provided with the Friday issue of the daily newspaper
The Times.Since March 1914 it has been on sale as a separate paper. In its early decades it was commonly referred to as the
Times Lit. Supp., but from the 1950s the simpler abbreviation
TLSbecame habitual, and that has been the paper’s masthead since 1969. A famous feature of
TLSarticles until 1974 was that they were, with some exceptions, anonymous. The exceptions included a few cases in which the paper was keen to advertise a reviewer’s special eminence – as in the byline given to Henry James for his review-article “The Younger…
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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Times Literary Supplement". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 April 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19627, accessed 21 November 2024.]