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Francis Gooding: Mushrooms, 6 October 2016

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins 
by Anna LowenhauptTsing.
Princeton, 322 pp., £22.95, September 2015, 978 0 691 16275 1Show More
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“... up, it also produced ideal conditions for future fires. In The Mushroom at the End of the World Anna LowenhauptTsing writes that the policy was ‘the most famous Forest Service mistake in the interior forests of the American West’. The central subject of her book – the growth of large quantities of the ...”

Something Is Surviving

Jenny Turner: Olga Tokarczuk’s Mycophilia, 26 June 2025

The Empusium 
by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
Fitzcarraldo, 326 pp., £14.99, September 2024, 978 1 80427 108 7Show More
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“... hope that fungi may ‘save the world’, or at least live on ‘in capitalist ruins’, as Anna LowenhauptTsing wrote ten years ago in The Mushroom at the End of the World. They make an appearance in Star Trek: Discovery, crossing space and time and the life-death barrier; they are nature’s own revolutionary ...”

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