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

Dream Reading

Ann Fabian

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

Our Savior

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

Youths and maidens.

A detestable canker.

Making it less random.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

Killed by a turtle.

Dice games for women.

Ominous bananas.

Pretty coffins.

The contempt of young people.

Superstitious Manipulations.

Total Information Awareness.

Morituri te salutamus.

Misattribution.

Mostly you need ordeal.

Goddess of good fortune.

Forever in Atlantic City.

St. Dustan and the Devil

Not with a hook.

Bad luck gifts.

The canopy of the heavens.

Playing in high spirits.

Voices In Time

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Charts and Graphs

Number Theories

Sporting Chances

Strange Derivatives

Be Careful What You Wish For

Death from Above

Near-Death Experiences

Chance Discoveries

Long Shots

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

The Just World Scale

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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