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Our latest book reviews:

• How to Host a Dinner Party, by Corey Mintz, review by Jessica Allen

• La Historia del Español: The Story of Spanish, by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, review by Brian Bethune

• Pepper: A History of the World’s Most Influential Spice, by Marjorie Shaffer, review by Peter Shawn Taylor

• Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic, byJennifer Keishin Armstrong, review by Jaime J. Weinman

• Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M., by Suzanne Corkin, review by Ken MacQueen

• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, by Annalee Newitz, review by Brian Bethune