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

Our Savior

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

Playing in high spirits.

Total Information Awareness.

The canopy of the heavens.

Dice games for women.

Making it less random.

Forever in Atlantic City.

Bad luck gifts.

Superstitious Manipulations.

The contempt of young people.

Not with a hook.

Pretty coffins.

St. Dustan and the Devil

Youths and maidens.

Morituri te salutamus.

Ominous bananas.

Killed by a turtle.

Misattribution.

A detestable canker.

Mostly you need ordeal.

Goddess of good fortune.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

Voices In Time

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Charts and Graphs

Sporting Chances

Strange Derivatives

The Just World Scale

Be Careful What You Wish For

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

Number Theories

Near-Death Experiences

Chance Discoveries

Long Shots

Death from Above

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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