MTV’s long-running reality show The Real World tosses a group of contrasting strangers together, and then steps back to watch what happens. Natsuo Kirino’s novel Real World throws a killer into the ...

Natsuo Kirino's murders are incidental. They are the pivot upon which her three novels that have been translated into English (she's written 16 total) turn, but the investigating detectives hardly ...

Natsuo Kirino has been upending preconceived notions of Japanese literature with a series of much-praised thrillers that pioneer what is now being called "feminist Japanese noir." Kirino first burst ...