The Precision of Luck, by Joel Rea, 2015. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 48 inches. © Joel Rea, courtesy the artist and Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York City.

Luck

Volume IX, Number 3 | summer 2016

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Dame Fortune

Lewis H. Lapham

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

Our Savior

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Dream Reading

Ann Fabian

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

Youths and maidens.

St. Dustan and the Devil

Forever in Atlantic City.

Misattribution.

Total Information Awareness.

Pretty coffins.

Mostly you need ordeal.

Killed by a turtle.

Ominous bananas.

The contempt of young people.

The canopy of the heavens.

Bad luck gifts.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

Superstitious Manipulations.

Morituri te salutamus.

Making it less random.

Playing in high spirits.

Goddess of good fortune.

Not with a hook.

A detestable canker.

Dice games for women.

Voices In Time

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Charts and Graphs

Strange Derivatives

Be Careful What You Wish For

Long Shots

Near-Death Experiences

The Just World Scale

Number Theories

Chance Discoveries

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

Death from Above

Sporting Chances

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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