TLS confused over whether it’s the literary Nuts or Zoo

 
11 April 2014

The Times Literary Supplement has been bamboozled by a report on so-called “lads’ mags”. When the closure of IPC Media’s weekly Nuts was announced, BBC News noted that the publication has a “rival weekly, Zoo — the Times Literary Supplement to Nuts’ London Review of Books”.

Cue much head-scratching at the TLS, which is used to deciphering more intellectual fare. “We were at a loss to decode the meaning behind the association,” this week’s edition reads. “Which journal is the more informative, lively and erudite, Zoo or Nuts? Which offers greater insight, boasts the more challenging subjects, the more satisfied readership? Who, in short, is being praised and damned? Or should the TLS and LRB be equally content? Perhaps sympathetic readers of Zoo and Nuts will be able to assist.”

The Londoner is equally fond of both literary mags but, if pushed, would have to say the LRB front covers are far sexier.

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