Ben Campbell works at the LRB. Peter Campbell wrote more than three hundred pieces for the paper, and did the cover illustrations until his death in 2011.
My father, Peter Campbell, took these photographs of Anita Brookner for the LRB in 1982. The one at the bottom of the second column was used for the cover of the 20 May issue. Brookner’s new novel, Providence, was reviewed by Robert Taubman along with four other novels, but his piece wasn’t advertised on the cover. The pictures must have been taken in Brookner’s office...
In January , the editors of the London Review forwarded a request to me from Hermione Lee. She was hoping to use a photograph of Anita Brookner that had appeared on the cover of the LRB in 1982 as an illustration in her forthcoming biography of Brookner. The picture had been taken by my father, Peter Campbell, and I knew that the original, if it still existed, would be among thousands of...
The Q’s dangling tail is not a recent problem, but dates to the first page of the first substantial book printed using moveable type in Europe.
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