Jamie James, a novelist and former art critic for the New Yorker, has written an intriguing new book about this wild child poet that also leaps boundaries. Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage is difficult to classify. Equal parts lit crit, biography, linguistic anthropology and social history, this non-fictional work examines the remaining mysteries about Arthur Rimbaud as a fugitive from justice and puts them into cultural context. It’s documented that Rimbaud joined up as a mercenary soldier for the Dutch Colonial Army but went AWOL in the jungles of Java.

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