Margaret Burnham

Feb 14, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Doug Banks |Margaret Burnham

Good morning, Boston. Happy Valentine’s Day. It’s also Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Christian Lent season. Here are the five things you need to know in Boston business news to start your workday. Biogen CEO Christopher Viehbacher said revenue dropped last year due to competition from generic drugs, but said a "complete redesign of Biogen" is underway, Hannah Green reports. David Cancel–founded unicorn Drift.com Inc.

Jul 26, 2023 | bostonreview.net | Margaret Burnham |Jeanne Theoharis

Margaret Burnham, professor of law and founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, has spent years documenting the regular and mundane violence that was fundamental to the operation and maintenance of the Jim Crow South.

Jul 11, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Margaret Burnham

Jon Klassen renders a misremembered folktale unforgettable in ‘The Skull.’ On this week’s Fully Booked podcast, Jon Klassen discusses The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale (Candlewick, July 11), the story of a fast friendship between a girl on the run and a hospitable skull, from the highly decorated Canadian-born author-illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat, and We Found a Hat.

Apr 22, 2023 | heysocal.com | Margaret Burnham

The winners of the 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes have been announced and include a re-examination of the life of longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and a debut novel set in a red-light district in Pakistan. The awards were handed out during a ceremony Friday at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium. The Book Prizes are a prologue to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which is being held Saturday and Sunday on the USC campus.

Apr 22, 2023 | newspub.live | Margaret Burnham

An enigmatic story of artwork and life in Communist Bucharest, a debut novel set in a red-light district in Pakistan, a searing YA story set in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia — in addition to reexaminations of J. Edgar Hoover, the Jim Crow period and extra — are among the many winners of the forty third annual Los Angeles Instances Guide Prizes, awarded Friday night throughout a ceremony on the College of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium.