![]() (Voth intersperses critical commentary with tales of his own present-day loves and losses.) Jack has just slipped free of the cruel carpenter keeping him as an indentured servant. Or so Jordy Rosenberg would have it in “ Confessions of the Fox,” a début novel that weaves together the “found” memoirs of London’s eighteenth-century arch-renegade with the annotations of a rogue professor, Dr. ![]() Photograph by Beowulf Sheehanīefore he became the pickpocket and prison escapee immortalized as Mack the Knife in Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera,” Jack Sheppard was a nervous kid trying to talk to a sex worker at a pub. ![]() “Confessions of the Fox,” Jordy Rosenberg’s début novel, reimagines the infamous British thief Jack Sheppard as a transgender man. ![]()
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