What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make

This explores the fascinating story of the prized matsutake mushroom. They are remaking human communities in China and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds. Despite efforts to cultivate it in urban labs, the mushroom still grows only in the wild. This reveals the complex, symbiotic ways that mushrooms, plants, humans, and other animals interact, and how the world looks to the mushrooms and the people who have grown rich harvesting them.