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

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Dream Reading

Ann Fabian

Our Savior

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

Ominous bananas.

Bad luck gifts.

Morituri te salutamus.

Not with a hook.

Playing in high spirits.

Mostly you need ordeal.

A detestable canker.

Superstitious Manipulations.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

The canopy of the heavens.

Youths and maidens.

Dice games for women.

Total Information Awareness.

Pretty coffins.

Goddess of good fortune.

The contempt of young people.

Making it less random.

Forever in Atlantic City.

Killed by a turtle.

St. Dustan and the Devil

Misattribution.

Voices In Time

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Charts and Graphs

Sporting Chances

Strange Derivatives

Chance Discoveries

Death from Above

The Just World Scale

Number Theories

Near-Death Experiences

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

Be Careful What You Wish For

Long Shots

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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