She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. How Do You Live? begins with fifteen-year-old Copper, who has recently suffered the ...

Japan’s best-selling book of 2018 was a manga version of Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (How Do You Live?) created by Haga Shōichi. Its success brought fresh attention to the original 1937 children ...

He had stood in the temples mentioned in the book and had lived on one of the streets it describes.” Yoshino wrote How Do You Live? under a repressive militarist regime that tightened the screws ...

Originally published in 1937, “How Do You Live?” (“Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ... that director Hayao Miyazaki, who cited the book as one of his childhood favorites, was adapting the story ...

Miyazaki Hayao’s new film The Boy and the Heron takes its Japanese title from the timeless classic Kimitachi wa dō ikiru ka (translated by Bruno Navasky as How Do You Live?). The philosophical ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Adam Gopnik HOW DO YOU LIVE? By Genzaburo Yoshino Translated by Bruno Navasky Foreword by ...

we do know that Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? will be based on the title of his (favorite!) book of the same name by Yoshino Genzaburō. How Do You Live? follows Junichi Honda, a popular 15-year ...