Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad reviews

       The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two of Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's travel-inspired works from the 1960s:

• His hajj-account, Lost in the Crowd (a Three Continents Press volume that you'll be hard-pressed to find nowadays but got a full-length review in The New York Times Book Review, back in a very different day (1986))
  
  
• The Israeli Republic -- one of the first releases from new publisher Restless Books, who are certainly doing some interesting things

       Somehow, I've now managed to review four of Āl-e Ahmad's works without getting (back) to his most famous one, the seminal غرب زدگی (which is available in English in several translations). But I suspect that even among the well-read visitors to the complete review -- at least outside Iran -- he's at best known as Simin Daneshvar's husband.
       (Worth noting, also: aside from his own writing, he translated quite a bit, including Camus' L'Étranger, Sartre's Dirty Hands, and short works by Albert Cossery, Ernst Jünger, and Dostoevsky.)