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

Our Savior

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

Dream Reading

Ann Fabian

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

Pretty coffins.

Total Information Awareness.

The canopy of the heavens.

Killed by a turtle.

Ominous bananas.

A detestable canker.

The contempt of young people.

Playing in high spirits.

Morituri te salutamus.

Forever in Atlantic City.

Misattribution.

St. Dustan and the Devil

Making it less random.

Mostly you need ordeal.

Not with a hook.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

Youths and maidens.

Superstitious Manipulations.

Dice games for women.

Goddess of good fortune.

Bad luck gifts.

Voices In Time

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Charts and Graphs

Near-Death Experiences

The Just World Scale

Be Careful What You Wish For

Sporting Chances

Death from Above

Long Shots

Strange Derivatives

Chance Discoveries

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

Number Theories

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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