Looking Glass
To have or to have not
A March issue of the "London Review of Books" contains [...]
“Efficiency” at the end of the line
Sometime in the mid 1980s I was working for an [...]
The cat, Charles Dickens, and Chairman Mao
We have a dear, sweet cat that we love with [...]
Solidarity from up close
Every beginning is difficult... • Ancient Jewish proverb I joined [...]
Call him June
I knew him from the 1970s, the days in which [...]
End of days
A few months ago, I was in the Sudtirol region [...]
(E)scaping it
A few decades ago, I decided to grow a ponytail. [...]
Finding Bob
Columnist Joe Scott's memories of his father were few and harsh, until a box of letters brought pieces of a dark past into better focus.
Coming of age: a 1960s story
A trip down memory lane with columnist Joe Scott includes taking stock of "planetaty gents" and much ado about "Paris Match" and pistons.
Doomed from within
Not many people now remember how roundly loathed the Twin [...]
The anthem sprinters
American author Ray Bradbury's “The Anthem Sprinters” is a short [...]
The resistance of Maxim Andreevich
A few years after I moved into the building at [...]
“Looking Glass” Author
Joe Scott
Born in 1947 as Joseph Scott Fuller, Joe Scott has played the roles of “red-diaper baby,” college dropout, radical leftist, tire warehouseman, World Trade Center carpenter, printing press operator, computer programmer, and husband and father. He now lives in Oakland, California with his partner of 14 years.