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

Miscellany

It’s considered bad luck in parts of Mississippi for mourners to call a coffin pretty.

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899