Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation.

The TLS in literature

The central place - for better or worse - of the TLS in modern Anglophone literary culture has led to it itself appearing in works of fiction. One of the most backhanded such mentions appears in the English translation of Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy (1953), in which Molloy relates that:

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Samuel Beckett - Molloy

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:...in winter, under my greatcoat, I wrapped myself in swathes of newspaper, and did not shed them until the earth awoke, for good, in April. The Times Literary Supplement was admirably adapted to this purpose, of a neverfailing toughness and impermeability. Even farts made no impression on it.

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