The old me, having such strong-indeed, passionate-feelings about a book, might have regarded the act of corraling them verbally with exhaustion, thinking that there could never be enough time or ink or articulacy to Get It All Down and, moreover, get it all down right, and that therefore, not making the attempt was preferable to doing so and failing. The old me would not have written a review of Confessions of the Fox, or possibly even tried. The Great Reread, #5: I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith.April 2023: superlatives for the rest of it.“An ambitious work of metafiction, a sexy queer love story. a bold first novel.” - Entertainment Weekly one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.” - The New York Times Book Review a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges.
Read it.” -Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist for Her Body and Other Parties It should be in the personal canon of every queer and non-cis person. I want to run through the streets screaming about it. Reading it was like an out-of-body experience. “ Confessions of the Fox is so goddamned good. an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes an academic comedy spliced with period erotica an intimate meditation on belonging.” -Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined-and only a miracle will save them all. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript-a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Yet no one knows the true story their confessions have never been found. Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”- Time.Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
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