"Bungakukai" June 2026 Issue Released May 7! Featuring Yasutaka Tsutsui's First Hard-boiled Mystery "The Hitman Comes from Detroit"!

Bungeishunju Ltd. (Representative Director: Naruyuki Iikubo) released its literary magazine "Bungakukai" June 2026 issue today, May 7. In addition to Yasutaka Tsutsui's first hard-boiled mystery "The Hitman Comes from Detroit," new novellas by Suzumi Suzuki, Sayoko Okuno, and Takashi Fukumi are featured. Starting from this issue, a new serialization of correspondence between Kaori Ekuni and Hitomi Kanehara, and an essay series "Drunken Craft" by Misato Konari, focusing on "sake × craft," will begin. The special feature "The Past and Future of Book Design" is also noteworthy.

"Bungakukai" June 2026 Issue (Cover art by Yuichiro Moriyama)

◆"Bungakukai" June 2026 Issue

**[Creative Works]**

Yasutaka Tsutsui "The Hitman Comes from Detroit" People are killed wherever detective Inumaru goes. The author's first hard-boiled mystery, filled with wit and aesthetics!

Suzumi Suzuki "Bad Blood" I want to leave this life, which is neither happiness nor unhappiness, untouched. To reclaim my blood, I begin to walk—

Sayoko Okuno "Defeat" "I" returned to the snowy north after being defeated in Tokyo, and my mother complains that "strange people" have increased. A new "Hokkaido Literature."

Takashi Fukumi "A Certain Emulsification and its Soft Structure" I love Sohei, but I've never wanted to be family. Surely, not from now on either...

Erica Kobayashi "There's something I wish I had done a little bit"

**[Excellent Works from Doujinshi Magazines in the First Half of 2026]**

Hitoka Sugimori "1-25 Bottom"

**[New Serializations]**

Correspondence: Kaori Ekuni × Hitomi Kanehara Menus and letters have infinite possibilities. The beginning of a unique dialogue, from the details of daily life to hidden murderous intent.

Misato Konari "Drunken Craft" I love doing arts and crafts while drinking late at night. A new sensation mariage of sake × craft!

**[Special Feature] The Past and Future of Book Design**

Dialogue: Akiko Okubo × Jun Kawana "Report Meeting 28 Years Later" Two individuals, senior and junior from Tama Art University, discuss the behind-the-scenes of the work of book design.

Interview: "Hiroshi Onuma & Asuka Wakida: New Generation Book Designers" Interviewer/Text by Fumihisa Miyata

**[Book Review]** Kohei Aoki "With Some Blame, I Embrace Ferdinand — Céline's 'London' for Young Readers"

**[20th Anniversary Debut Special Essay]**

Kumi Kimura "When I was working part-time at Village Vanguard Shimokitazawa"

**[Manga]** Tanau Hiuchi "Life"

**[From the Window]** Taichi Takahara "Full of Self-Admonition"

**[This Month's Essays]** Taichi Kasuga "Hashimoto and Takada" / Hisashi Kujirai "A Friend Named K"

**[Poetry]** Madoka Hozaki "carry the fire"

**[Bungakukai Library]** Kaori Ekuni "Tell Me About the Outside World" (Rika Chaen)

**[Powerful Serializers]** Chihiro Hamano / Ai Miyoshi / Gakuhiro Ueda / Ono-ya / Ryohei Machiya / Suzumi Suzuki / Kaori Fujino / Toshiki Matsuura / Kamiko Inuyama / Tomohiro Takenaga / Kayo Takeuchi

Cover art = Yuichiro Moriyama "Old India Madras IV" / 2025, Oil on canvas, 91 × 72.7cm ©︎Yuichiro Moriyama

Poetry/Table of Contents Photography = Miki Fukano Poetry/Table of Contents Design = Kumiko Sano Art Direction = Shingo Nakagawa

◆Bibliographic Information Title: "Bungakukai" June 2026 Issue Release Date: May 7, 2026 (Thursday) Format: A5 Price: 1200 yen (tax included) Magazine Information: https://books.bunshun.jp/ud/book/num/49120770706632026