Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Rarely can one immerse oneself into an academic work with informative and sensuous pictures and figures that set a pace and allow the reader to explore the senses of smelling, grabbing, searching and walking. Beginning with an account of the matsutake mushroom, Tsing follows the threads of this organism to tease out an astonishing number of insights about life in the Anthropocene., Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers, 'The publisher can really be congratulated.

Her engrossing account of intersecting cultures and nature's resilience offers a fresh perspective on modernity and progress., Provocative. is a wonderful meditation on how humans shape and distort the natural landscape, and in return, are shaped and distorted by a wildness of their own making.' -Casey Sanchez, Santa Fe New Mexican, Tsing weaves an adventurous tale. Tsing's well-researched and thought-provoking book is a testament to that.' -Jenny Jarlsdotter Wikström, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, ' writes clearheaded prose with an ear for lyrical phrases.

The mushroom poses difficult questions about responsibility. The methodological carefulness and precision, even on a sensuous level, is impressive. Without ever lecturing at the reader or hammering on some academic conviction, the book instead reveals a range of things that are variously urgent and pleasant, keeping ecological disaster in sight while allowing plenty of time for curiosity, diversity and surprise.' -Hjorleifur Jonsson, Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 'Through careful study of matsutake, discovers connections to other objects that create dynamic and moving webs across time and space. That is where anthropology is ideally located but achieving this is rather rare.

A remarkable and elegantly conceived book that well rewards close attention.' -John Miller, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 'The book will be of considerable interest at the complex intersection of social science, natural science and humanities. This is a book, perhaps above all, about the experience of living in precarious times and about life at the edges or in the cracks of the world system of capitalism. As such, The Mushroom at the End of the World is about much more than mushrooms. 'Tsing's extraordinary book provides an intimate account of the ecology of the matsutake and the work of the pickers, entrepreneurs and gourmets who bring it into the global economy.

Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps by Kelly Sue DeConnick