Edited by Martin Powell, Sukayna Powell, Attila Födi, and Natascha Kenyon

Created by a UK-based team passionate about all things mycological, The Mushroom is a beautiful, critical, and informative magazine for mushroom enthusiasts and all those working with mushrooms to connect, share, and be inspired.

Bringing together essays, interviews, clinical reports, photography, illustration, research round-ups, and more, each issue is designed to be a unique object and a valuable addition to any mycophile’s library. Artists, herbalists, ecologists, and engineers alike will find much beauty and intrigue in these pages.

Issue 2 of The Mushroom includes an editorial introduction and the following features…

• A World Turned Upside Down, by Fred Gillam

• Embodied Encounters, Merlin Sheldrake interviewed by Sukayna Powell

• What’s in My Mushrooms?, by Zhang Yi

• One Log in India’s Last Lowland Rainforest, photographs by Sutirtha Lahiri

• Research Round-Up, compiled by the editors

• Song of the Mushrooms, by Connor Glinski

• Travels Through China’s Mushroom Heartland, by Martin Powell

• Sex, Drugs & Rot‘n’Mould, Giuliana Furci interviewed by Sukayna Powell

• Paws and Polypores, by Atilla Födi

• A Fortifying TCM Mushroom Broth, article and recipe by Zoey Xinyi Gong

… printed vegan-friendly in full color on appealing FSC-certified matte paper. Nearly every page is adorned with full-color artistic and scientific photographs.

The Peculiar Parish Bookshop is proud to carry this compelling new series. We have reserved 200 copies of this issue of The Mushroom, making them available via pre-order to our readers.

Cover by Élise Rigollet. Published by Mycology Press (Spring/Summer 2021). A new pamphlet in perfect condition.

72-page perfect-bound paperback, profusely illustrated throughout.