The Times

==In popular culture==
In the [[dystopia]]n future world of [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', ''The Times'' has been transformed into an organ of the totalitarian ruling party.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction|last=Shippey|first=Tom|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=2016|isbn=9781781384398|series=Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies|pages=233|chapter=Variations on Newspeak: The Open Question of Nineteen Eighty-Four|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0DjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131607/https://books.google.com/books?id=y0DjDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA233|url-status=live}}</ref> The book's lead character [[Winston Smith (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Winston Smith]] is employed in the task of rewriting past issues of the newspaper for the [[Ministry of truth|Ministry of Truth]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=maBtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|title=The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian|date=4 June 2019|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-54406-1|pages=78 <!-- pg=PT78 -->|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131609/https://books.google.com/books?id=maBtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Rex Stout]]'s fictional detective [[Nero Wolfe]] is described as fond of solving the London ''Times''{{'}} [[crossword puzzle]] at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTytJzXMEEgC&pg=PR6|title=Murder by the Book|last=Stout|first=Rex|date=12 May 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-75606-0|pages=vi|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131610/https://books.google.com/books?id=zTytJzXMEEgC&pg=PR6#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOKCQ297WX0C&pg=PA119|title=Triple Jeopardy|last=Stout|first=Rex|date=28 April 2010|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-75630-5|pages=119|language=en|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=21 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321131720/https://books.google.com/books?id=mOKCQ297WX0C&pg=PA119#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the [[James Bond|James Bond series]] by [[Ian Fleming]], [[James Bond (character)|James Bond]] reads ''The Times''. As described by Fleming in ''[[From Russia, with Love (novel)|From Russia, with Love]]'': ''The Times'' was "the only paper that Bond ever read."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|title=Licence to sell|access-date=20 July 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 December 2002|first=John|last=Mullan|location=London|archive-date=26 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326213538/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview6|url-status=live}}</ref>