November is the perfect time for noir aka Noirvember, and that means it’s the perfect time for mystery novels. In Japan, the mystery genre i...

Ryuko is back to finish the story that began in Volume 1 , which fittingly, ends with a bang. The themes of pulp crime storytelling are ev...

People sometimes comment that this blog discusses a “niche topic”—Asian literature. If Asian literature is considered niche, then Western As...

All She Was Worth  is a 1992 noir mystery written by Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most famous genre writers, including crime fictio...