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

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Dream Reading

Ann Fabian

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

Our Savior

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

St. Dustan and the Devil

The canopy of the heavens.

Not with a hook.

Youths and maidens.

The contempt of young people.

Superstitious Manipulations.

Pretty coffins.

Total Information Awareness.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

Misattribution.

Mostly you need ordeal.

Forever in Atlantic City.

Making it less random.

Dice games for women.

Ominous bananas.

Bad luck gifts.

Goddess of good fortune.

Playing in high spirits.

A detestable canker.

Killed by a turtle.

Morituri te salutamus.

Voices In Time

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Charts and Graphs

Be Careful What You Wish For

Death from Above

Chance Discoveries

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

The Just World Scale

Strange Derivatives

Number Theories

Near-Death Experiences

Sporting Chances

Long Shots

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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