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Christopher Hitchens is sorely missed, And Yet... (Simon & Schuster) a bounty of his famous scalps, his thunderblasted targets, and a few love letters brings the spirit of the iconoclastic late V.F. contributing editor and provocateur in chief roaring to life with such a vengeance it’s almost as if he were here.

Flashback: Blair Jackson and David Gans's 50-year oral history of the Grateful Dead, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed (Flatiron), is an epic jam. Famously shy songstress Carly Simon comes of

age in her lyrical memoir, Boys in the Trees (Flatiron). Rick Moody deftly remakes the novel in his four-star Hotels of North America (Little, Brown). Christopher Buckley frolics through the 16th century with The Relic Master (Simon & Schuster). Amos Kamil and Sean Elder expose the decades-long pattern of sexual abuse at Horace Mann School in Great Is the Truth (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Joel Lobenthal spot-

lights the Kirov’s rebel prima ballerina, Alla Osipenko (Oxford). Fergus Fleming cracks Ian Fleming’s Bond letters in The Man with the Golden Typewriter (Bloomsbury). Justin Cartwright wrestles with South Africa in Up Against the Night (Bloomsbury). Alistair Horne ruminates on the tragedy of war in Hubris (Harper). James Harkin targets the violent rise of the Islamic State in Hunting

Season (Hachette). A. David Moody's third volume of Ezra

Pound: Poet (Oxford) plots the anti-Semitic writer’s downfall. Football takes a hit in Jeanne Marie Laskas'sConcussion (Random House). Kate Williams'sYoung Elizabeth (Pegasus) paints the Queen as a pre-teen princess. Michael Cunningham and Yuko Shimizu'sA Wild Swan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is an enchantment. Writers famous and not-so boil down The Best Advice in Six Words (St. Martin’s Griffin), edited by Larry Smith. Dazzling dance photographer Lois Greenfield and William A. Ewing frame Lois Greenfield: Moving Still (Chronicle). Rising star Ryan Britt blasts off with Luke Skynvcilker Can’t Read (Plume). Mary-Louise Parker debuts with the deeply funny and entirely original Dear Mr. You (Scribner). Finally, it’s the ab-so-lute-ly spiffy portable paperback of Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair (Penguin), edited by the best of us, Graydon Carter and David Friend. Ain’t that ducky? —ELISSA SCHAPPELL