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Melissa Malouf
Professor of the Practice Emerita of English
English
mmalouf@duke.edu
Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0756
303H Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications
More Than You Know
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April 2014
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Review of Isabel Allende’s "Inez of My Soul"
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News & Observer
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December 2006
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Red Horse Running Through Water
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November 2003
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Nobel Talk. Review of J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.
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The News & Observer
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October 2003
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The Soul on the Brink of Extinction. Review of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.
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The News & Observer
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June 2003
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Life With a Troubled Mother. Review of Virginia Holman’s Rescuing Patty Hearst.
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The News & Observer
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March 2003
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Parisians Find Ooh-la-la in America’s Heartland. Review of Ron Hansen’s Isn’t it Romantic.
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The News & Observer
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March 2003
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He Shrugs in the Face of Evil. Review of Review of Howard Norman’s The Haunting of L.
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The News & Observer
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June 2002
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Botany and Other Blessings. Review of Review of Andrea Barrett’s Servants of the Map.
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2002
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Square Pegs in a Jagged World. Review of Nadine Gordimer’s The Pick Up.
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The News & Observer
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September 2001
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Love Among the Ruins. Review of Barry Hannah’s Yonder Stands Your Orphan.
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The News & Observer
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July 2001
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Pilgrims’ Progress. Review of Review of Peggy Payne’s Sister India.
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January 2001
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The Terrible Twentieth Century. Review of Carlos Fuentes’ The Years with Laura Diaz.
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December 2000
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A Non-violent Killing Spree. Review of Review of Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World.
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June 2000
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God’s House of Cards. Review of Review of E.L. Doctorow’s City of God.
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March 2000
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Going Buggy–Unbeknownst to Everybody. Review of Review of Jaime Gordon’s Boogeywoman.
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January 2000
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Fate and the Single Girl. Review of Review of Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune.
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November 1999
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When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling. Review of Review of Roddy Doyle’s A Star Called Henry.
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September 1999
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Men at Work. Review of Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories.
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August 1999
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Remembering Leonard Peltier
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July 1999
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The Bridget Jones Sisterhood
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June 1999
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The World Hurts. Review of Peter Matthiessen’s Bone by Bone.
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April 1999
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Refraction. Review of Review of Gail Godwin’s Evensong.
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March 1999
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The Cuban-American Princess. Review of Oscar Hijuelos’ Empress of the Splendid Season.
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February 1999
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The name game
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
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February 1, 1999
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More than You Know
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Duke University Libraries
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1999
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Rhetoric and Other Acts of Aggression. Review of Peter Dimock’s A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family.
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January 1999
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From You Know Who
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October 1998
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Colonies of the Heart. Review of Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale.
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August 1998
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Wandalinda
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Oxymoron
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July 1998
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Serb Meets Croat, American Style. Review of Josep Novakovich’s Salvation and Other Disasters.
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News & Observer
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June 1998
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It Had to be You: The Joan and Ernest Story
Book
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1997
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A Bedtime Story
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January 1997
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Bellarocca: A Love Story
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1997
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Chances Are
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1997
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Dancing in the Dark
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solicited for special Aniversary issue, Mid-American Review
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1995
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Making Love to the Devil. Review of Charlie Smith’s Lives of the Dead.
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Duke Magazine
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June 1991
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Someone to Watch Over Me
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New England Review
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1991
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No Guarantees
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1990
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Speak Low
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New England Review
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1990
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Translation and Adaptation of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
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June 1989
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In the world but not of it.
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Katallagete
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March 1, 1989
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I’ve Got You under My Skin
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Kenyon Review: an international journal of literature, culture, and the arts
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1989
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Ensemble
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Kenyon Review (Winter 1988), special mention in Best American Short Stories 1989
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1988
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Fables
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Caliban
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1988
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The Golden Robe
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Fiction International (Summer 1987), reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XIII
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1988
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It Had to Be You
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Antaeus
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1988
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Duet: one act play; premiere at Duke University, Playwrights' Festival
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1988
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Some Enchanted Evening
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Kenyon Review
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1986
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An Eye for Detail
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New Orleans Review
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1985
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Parachute
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Indiana Review
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1984
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A Love Story in One Act
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Sou’wester
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1983
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Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913-1974
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1976
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