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

• Post-Industrial Mushrooms: A Fragile Resilience, by Morgan Owen

• From Cordyceps to Creating a Counter-Culture, William Padilla-Brown interviewed by Sukayna Powell

• Mushrooms and Gluten, by Fred Gillam

• A Luminous Pursuit, by Joseph Pallante

• Research Round-Up, compiled by the editors

• A World Through Hue, by Julie Beeler

• Rotting Hearts Are Beautiful, Professor Lynne Boddy interviewed by Sukayna Powell

• Fungus in Focus: Tremella Fuciformis, by Zhang Yi

• Lacto-Fermented Mushroom “Scallops”, article and recipe by Pascal Baudar

…printed vegan-friendly in full color on appealing 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 Sharlene Durfey. Published by Mycology Press (Spring/Summer 2022). A new pamphlet in perfect condition.

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