Looking for a fun historical?

I got to read and review Jordy Rosenberg’s wild new Confessions of the Fox for the Boston Globe. (And, yes, the Waters and Faber books are set 150 years later. I’d noted this, but then cut the note for space – and then “Victorian” was added back in, for accuracy I’m guessing, which makes the comparison seem a little odd.)

‘‘Confessions of the Fox’’ is that rare find, a challenging philosophical work that’s also just great fun. On one level this debut novel is a swashbuckling adventure about a notorious outlaw and his forbidden love in 18th century London — the kind of off-kilter picaresque destined to become a film starring Johnny Depp … read more here.