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

Voltaire’s Luck

Roger Pearson

Oil in the Can

Eric Banks

The Gorgon’s Head

William Kentridge

Dream Reading

Ann Fabian

La Soledad

Robert Coover

Map

Snakes & Ladders

Miscellany

Morituri te salutamus.

Total Information Awareness.

A detestable canker.

St. Dustan and the Devil

Ominous bananas.

Making it less random.

Goddess of good fortune.

Mostly you need ordeal.

The contempt of young people.

Misattribution.

Killed by a turtle.

Superstitious Manipulations.

Bad luck gifts.

The canopy of the heavens.

Dice games for women.

Forever in Atlantic City.

Youths and maidens.

Not with a hook.

Playing in high spirits.

Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit.

Pretty coffins.

Voices In Time

Known Unknown

1878 | Cambridge, MA

Predestination

1536 | Basel

Heads or Tails

1761 | Coxwold

Fortune’s Expensive Smile

1875 | Amherst, MA

Venture Capital

1826 | Monticello

Development Bank

1793 | Philadelphia

Fortune’s Child

1660 | Port-Royal des Champs

Skill Is Not a Crime

1983 | Ottawa, IL

Hazards of Misfortune

1814 | Arcueil

Trading Places

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Calculated Exuberance

1936 | Cambridge

Sea Changes

1851 | Frankfurt

Natural Causes

c. 85 | Shangyu

Stumbling Upward

c. 1846 | London

Pay to Play

1732 | London

Render Unto Caesar

c. 100 | Rome

Chasing the Pot

1852 | Indian Bar, CA

Charts and Graphs

Near-Death Experiences

Strange Derivatives

The Just World Scale

Chance Discoveries

Be Careful What You Wish For

How to Assemble an Athenian Jury

Sporting Chances

Long Shots

Number Theories

Death from Above

Contributors

Conversations

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

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