“The Mushroom at the End of the World” by Anna Tsing was plugged in the Sunday newspapers recently by Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon.
As she puts it: “It’s the story of a matsutake mushroom, one of the most valuable mushrooms in the world - it grows in the destruction and ruins of human disturbance. It’s an anthropological and environmental study, but it's almost written like a novel. It explores questions about how humans are going to survive in capitalist destruction, through collaborative survival and multi-species landscapes.”
