Kawaki no Machi is a novel by Kenzo Kitakata. With a dry prose style and urban tension, it portrays people who have stepped outside ordinary paths.

In a parched city, loneliness and pride collide.

Kabe: Tabishibai Satsujin Jiken is a mystery novel by Hiroko Minagawa. Set around a traveling theater troupe, it layers past and present crimes as hidden ties come to light.

In the darkness of a theater, an old incident and a present death overlap.

Kinzoku Batto Satsujin Jiken is a work of reportage by Minoru Sase. It follows a family murder case in Kawasaki and examines distortions in family, education, and society.

The book asks what had accumulated inside a family that appeared secure.

Rampo to Tokyo: 1920 Toshi no Kao is a critical work by Gan Matsuyama. It reads Edogawa Rampo's detective fiction through the urban culture and changing landscape of Tokyo in the 1920s.

A rereading of Rampo's detective fiction through the emergence of modern Tokyo.