Looking for a holiday read? As in all our print editions, the latest issue of Elephant features a round-up of excellent new publications for your perusal. Included is To Die Alive by photographer Matthew Leifheit, spotlighting his series of intimate images taken on Fire Island—that “famed gay gathering spot among the dunes of New York’s Long Island” to quote essayist Jeremy Atherton Lin. The result is a “mad opera culminating in the area’s cruising woodland known as the Meat Rack”, Lin continues, where “men of different ages (Leifheit’s friends and lovers, or strangers cast on apps) tentatively anticipate debauchery”. See the full review, and our other must-read recommendations, in Elephant 47, available from Elephant Kiosk.
