Featuring 333 Industry-First Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Children'sand YA books KIRKUSVOL. LXXXIX, NO. 5 | 1 MARCH 2021 REVIEWS Talia Hibbert How to write an inclusive romance with heart, soul, and humor p. 14 Also in the issue: Jo Koy, Safia Elhillo, and a guide to the Bridgerton novels FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK | Tom Beer Running the World and Writing About it Chairman HERBERT SIMON President & Publisher MARC WINKELMAN John Paraskevas # Girls may “run the world,” as Beyoncé so memorably put it, but all too Chief Executive Officer often they do so behind the scenes; women’s accomplishments still don’t get MEG LABORDE KUEHN the attention they deserve in the book world or any other quarter of the media.
[email protected] Editor-in-Chief Women’s History Month was established in 1987 to draw more attention to TOM BEER the subject. (It was preceded, from 1982 to 1986, by Women’s History Week—
[email protected] Vice President of Marketing enough said.) It’s a worthwhile prod for schools and libraries—and magazines SARAH KALINA like this one—to devote more time to women in history, but the idea that the
[email protected] subject deserves just one month of the year is, frankly, inadequate. Managing/Nonfiction Editor ERIC LIEBETRAU Fortunately, 2021 is already brimming with excellent books about women’s
[email protected] lives, work, and influence. Here are four especially noteworthy titles: Fiction Editor LAURIE MUCHNICK Janice P. Nimura’s The Doctors Blackwell: How
[email protected] Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Young Readers’ Editor VICKY SMITH Women to Medicine (Norton, Jan.