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The great critic and historian Paul Fussell died yesterday. Real Clear Books<\/a> linked to three Fussell-related items today and our competition, Arts & Letters Daily<\/a>, linked to an obituary. What has the New Republic<\/em> done? Certainly nothing that I can find. Nothing so far on the front page. TNR<\/em>\u2018s books page<\/a>, which often republishes old essays, is silent. How about its new literary aggregation page? Crickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is extra odd because TNR<\/em> published what is probably Fussell\u2019s most famous essay, in 1981, about the morality of going nuclear on Japan. Originally published with the humdrum title \u201cHiroshima: A Soldier\u2019s View,\u201d it served as the hook for Fussell\u2019s famous collection Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays<\/em>. I went to TNR<\/em>\u2018s website to try to reread the original essay and especially the awesome back-and-forth between Fussell and his critics. Couldn\u2019t find it. I finally found a copy<\/a> and am going through it now. This round goes, deservedly, to Google.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"