SelfMadeHero

Josephine Baker (1906–1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer...

Three unemployed slackers find themselves embroiled in an unusual dispute with their new neighbors: Carole and her weeping mother. When the shabby ...

“He leads the field by a very long furlong, out on his own, making his own weather. He is Klimowski, unafraid.”—Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-winning ...

An intoxicating illustrated portrait of boxer Emile Griffith, an Afro-Caribbean-American bisexual athlete and one of the world’s greatest fighters ...

A vivid portrayal of the life of Yayoi Kusama—Queen of Polka Dots, creator of infinity—from her unusual childhood to international artistic acclaim...

Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. For its inhabitants, the village is more than t...

The cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft is given terrifyingly beautiful form.This omnibus collects four of I.N.J. Culbard’s acclaimed graphic novel ada...

In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five...

David Bowie’s legendary time in West Berlin as he searches for inspiration and records his 1977 album LowLOW traces the aftermath of David Bowie’s ...

The true story of how a famous movie star and her ex-husband director were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il and forced to revitalize North Korea’s film ind...

After two years of unemployment, Maggy Garrisson lands a secretarial job. Too bad her new boss is the shady, chaotic Anthony Wight: private detecti...

Paris in the 1950s: the reign of Sartre and existentialism. Daniel Brodin—bibliophile, book thief, self-proclaimed poet—enters the heated atmospher...