Dennis Duncan is the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge, where he is writing a history of the book index from the middle ages to the era of the Kindle. His publications include Tom McCarthy: Critical Essays (2016) and Theory of The Great Game (2015), a selection of translations from the Surrealist magazine, Le Grand Jeu. He writes regularly for the TLS and is a member of the London Institute of 'Pataphysics.
His first book, INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE, published by Penguin Press in the UK and by W. W. Norton in the US, was a New York Times bestseller.