Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox reimagines the legend of Jack Sheppard, the famous eighteenth-century thief who escaped from prison multiple times. Rosenberg's Jack is a transgender man, and his lover Bess, a Black woman, runs a bordello that doubles as a safe house for London's underclass. The novel is presented as a recently discovered manuscript, annotated by a contemporary academic, Dr. Voth, whose footnotes gradually reveal his own story of gender transition and institutional precarity. Rosenberg, a scholar of eighteenth-century literature, draws on queer and trans history while creating a rollicking adventure narrative. The dual structure allows exploration of how history is written and who gets to tell it, as Voth's notes critique and supplement the manuscript. Confessions of the Fox is explicit about sex and violence, celebrating bodies and pleasures that dominant culture has pathologized. The novel argues for an insurgent tradition of gender and sexual dissidence stretching back centuries. Rosenberg writes with scholarly precision and novelistic verve; the eighteenth-century sections capture the period's language and texture. Confessions of the Fox is a heist novel, a love story, a work of historical recovery, and a meditation on archives and their gaps. Essential reading for anyone interested in trans literature or radical historical fiction.