This Month's New Arrivals

Hollywood has always been a land of make-believe, but no one believed in its gossip—or traded in its secrets—quite like Hedda Hopper. With her plumed hats and razor-sharp tongue, Hedda built an empire on whispers and scandals, the kind of “confidences” that could launch or end a career. In The Whole Truth and Nothing But, she spills it all—boiling, biting, and straight from the source.

From Elizabeth Taylor’s violet-eyed ascent and notorious romances to Marilyn Monroe’s tragic glow and champagne-fueled heartbreak, Hedda was there. She recalls Grace Kelly’s transformation into Monaco royalty, Montgomery Clift’s near-fatal crash outside Liz Taylor’s house, and the feuds, affairs, and tears that kept Hollywood shimmering.

The book brims with appearances by Hollywood’s boldest names—Richard Burton, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Dinah Shore, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Simmons, Noël Coward, and more. Hopper doesn’t just list names; she dishes with the authority of someone who got the midnight phone calls, the weepy confessions, and the outraged denials.

Campy, catty, and unapologetically self-promoting, this memoir is a wild ride through Hollywood’s golden age as told by its most infamous gossip queen. Part exposé, part love letter, part score-settling, The Whole Truth and Nothing But proves that in Hollywood, nothing is ever as it seems—except that scandal is always waiting just around the corner.

In this fascinating blend of philosophy, self-discipline, and body worship, 19th-century strongman Eugen Sandow offers more than just fitness advice—he preaches a gospel of transformation. With his sculpted physique and unapologetic flair, Sandow became a queer icon before the term existed. His advocacy of physical culture for everyone—including women and children—combined with his reverence for beauty, symmetry, and personal power, reads like a love letter to the body.

Originally published in 1897 and featuring anatomical charts and photographs, this book remains an essential historical document for queer readers interested in the aesthetics of strength, early wellness culture, and the homoerotic undertones of classical bodybuilding. Whether you're into fitness, vintage muscle worship, or reclaiming queer-coded icons from history, Sandow’s work is an irresistible flex.

When Alice Duer Miller published Are Women People? in 1915, she wasn’t just fighting for women’s right to vote—she was rewriting the language of power itself. With biting wit, satirical verse, and a sharp eye for hypocrisy, Miller skewered the politicians, clergymen, and editorial boards who claimed that women were too delicate, too irrational, or too charming to be full citizens.

Her work, first appearing in the pages of the New York Tribune, became a cultural weapon in the suffrage movement, transforming laughter into resistance. More than a century later, these verses still resonate—not only as feminist classics but as part of a longer queer lineage of using humor, parody, and camp to puncture systems of oppression.

In an era when LGBTQ+ communities continue to fight for recognition, safety, and equality, Are Women People? reminds us that every struggle for liberation is bound together. Miller’s sly, subversive rhymes stand as proof that art and satire have always been tools of revolution—and that the question “Are women people?” echoes today in every demand that queer lives, loves, and identities be seen as fully human.