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Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka 0000000446460520 Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prolific 20th-century African American writer, poet, and Obie-winning playwright. Known for works such as “Blues People” a...
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader Amiri Baraka 9781560252382 Poetry Basic Books Perseus Books Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-...
Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Amiri Baraka 9781568860138 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers The poems selected here span from Baraka’s first collection,...
Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka
Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka MULTIPLE Amiri and Amina Baraka are renowned authors known for their profound contributions to literature and activism, using their work to inspire social change. Amiri ...
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781933354675 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bo...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet
Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet Poetry & Spoken Word AALBC.com mourns the loss of Amiri Baraka (https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Amiri+Baraka) Nov 9, 2014). More on the...
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
S O S: Poems 1961-2013 Amiri Baraka 9780802123350 Poetry Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceFusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka"who...
Razor
Razor Amiri Baraka 9780883783009 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Intended to cut clean through the oppression imposed upon the mainstream by society’s ""intellectual superstructure,"" this ...
The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones
The Autobiography Of Leroi Jones Amiri Baraka 9780881910223 Nonfiction Lawrence Hill Books Lawrence Hill Books The complete autobiography of a literary legend. Poet, dramatist, nov...
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America Amiri Baraka 9780688184742 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "The path the slave took to ’citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analo...
Tales
Tales Amiri Baraka 9781617753954 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka’s thoughts during that turbulent period.“Baraka’s sto...
Black Music
Black Music Amiri Baraka 9781933354934 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The long-awaited reissue (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, Blues Pe...
Tales of the Out & Gone
Tales of the Out & Gone Amiri Baraka 9781933354125 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection will shock and awe.
Confirmation: Anthology of African American Women
Confirmation: Anthology of African American Women Amiri Baraka 9780688015824 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Book by Baraka, Imamu Amiri
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781617753961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lo...
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka
Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka MULTIPLE Explore the life and works of Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka, influential figures in the 1967 Newark literary scene. Learn more about Larry Neal Learn more about Ami...
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems
Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems Amiri Baraka 9780913441619 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of poems.
The Essence of Reparations
The Essence of Reparations Amiri Baraka 9780913441602 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers A new collection of Essays on American history; Black studies; progressive political ...
Eulogies
Eulogies Amiri Baraka 9781568860077 Poetry Marsilio Publishers Marsilio Publishers eulogies for James Baldwin, Miles Davis, many more
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979
Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 Amiri Baraka 9780688034320 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays Amiri Baraka 9780688210847 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking pl...
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed
Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed MULTIPLE Prominent authors Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., an...
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King 9780883783559 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Brilliant ...
Amiri Baraka Tribute at the HBF Newark
Amiri Baraka Tribute at the HBF Newark Author Interviews Amiri Baraka https://bit.ly/amiribaraka is honored by Talaam Acey, Kasim Allah, Mo Beasley, Earl Majette, Rain Maker, and others at the Harlem ...
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X MULTIPLE
VIDEO: Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet
VIDEO: Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet Troy Johnson Article Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary PoetExhibit at Zambezi Bazaar in conjunction with the Leimert Park Book Fair.Ami...
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka Jean-Philippe Marcoux 9780814257845 Nonfiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press This collection of original essays bri...
Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015)
Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory (2015) Michael Simanga 9780230112155 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This important look at Congress of African P...
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka 9780688015800 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing Larry Neal and Amiri Baraka 9781574780390 Fiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing was origin...
Ras Baraka
Ras Baraka NONE "Ras Baraka, son of famed poets and father of three, is a published author. His latest work, 'Black Girls Learn Love Hard', is a tribute to his late sister, Shani Baraka.” Ras Baraka ...
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed 9780792269823 Nonfiction National Geographic Nation...
Black Voices
Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...
A Black Fire!
A Black Fire! Ras Baraka 9781574781182 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A Black Fire! was written and delivered by Ras Baraka at the home going celebration for his father, Amiri Bara...
Videos from the BEA 2008
Videos from the BEA 2008 Videos from the BEA 2008 Videos from the Book Expo America 2008 - African American Pavilion The Amiri Baraka Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet hosted ...
“Furious Flower” Conference Celebrates African American Poetry
“Furious Flower” Conference Celebrates African American Poetry Jamie Walker Article Harrisonburg, Virginia: Over sixty distinguished poets and scholars gathered to help set the agenda for African A...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Digging
Digging Robert Fleming Book Review The literary legacy of award-winning writer and poet Amiri Baraka continues to thrive as he releases another new book, Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of ...
What I’d Say: On Writing “Frankie Five Hundred”
What I’d Say: On Writing “Frankie Five Hundred” Michael A. Gonzales Article Recently my short story “Frankie Five Hundred” was published on the literary website Evergreen Review. Founded ...
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism Kimberly W. Benston 9780415009485 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of Black cultur...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Kwasi Ramsey
Kwasi Ramsey NONE Baltimore-born author Kwasi Ramsey, winner of the CLA Margaret Walker and Red Sparrow Poetry Awards, is inspired by poets like Amiri Baraka and musicians such as Tupac Shakur. Kwasi...
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Jean-Philippe Marcoux 0000000108385791 Jean-Philippe Marcoux is a Professor of American Literature at Laval University, specializing in African American literature, postmodernist fiction, poetry, and...
jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore 0000000043767122 jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winn...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene 000000008095850X Dr. Brenda M. Greene is a respected professor, writer, and scholar, leading the Center for Black Literature and the National Black Writers Conference. She has contri...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Robert Fleming Book Review Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. Howeve...
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico Ishmael Reed 9781771861854 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confede...
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman
Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman Gerald L. Early 9781603293549 Nonfiction The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association of America First performed in 1964, Amiri B...
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition
Continuum: New And Selected Poems, Revised Edition Mari Evans 9781933491165 Poetry Sankofa Books Just Us Books, Inc. Evans paints an intimate portrait of the Black experience in the more than 10...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays Sonia Sanchez 9780822347781 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Sonia Sanchez remains one of the ...
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446525831 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and ...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander 9780739415856 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in H...
On-line Writers Workshop
On-line Writers Workshop Troy Johnson Article WANTED: Black Writers with balls and ovaries of teflon and steel who can put up with heat waves, flashbacks, old lovers and word processors who c...
The Image and the Fire: The Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century
The Image and the Fire: The Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century Whit Frazier 9781625349507 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press Racial identity and ...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100 Roberto Carlos Garcia mosaic44 Nonfiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his...
Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America Mark Whitaker 9781668033296 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Published to coincide with the hundredth anni...
Every Where Alien
Every Where Alien Brad Walrond 9780063377998 Poetry Moore Black Press/Amistad HarperCollins “Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding… . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic bo...
There Was a Party for Langston
There Was a Party for Langston Jason Reynolds 9781534439443 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snap...
Black Fire This Time
Black Fire This Time Kim McMillon 9781737987673 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press An anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement. Edited by Dr. Kim McMillon and Kofi Antwi. Forew...
Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers Howard Rambsy II 9780813944135 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press How have African American writers drawn on bad Bl...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566895125 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Henry Dumas:"[Henry Dumas] had completed work, the quality and ...
Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews
Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews Nathaniel Mackey 9781609385835 Nonfiction University of Iowa Press University of Iowa Press Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interre...
Mother to Son: Poems
Mother to Son: Poems Latorial Faison 9781543025118 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC American Hip Hop artist, Nas, penned the lyrics, “If I ruled the world, I’d free all my sons.” Poet and a...
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883781968 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A contextual historical examination of the civil rights move...
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems Fred Lee Hord 9780883783498 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr. Hord’s space am...
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas Jeffrey B. Leak 9780820328706 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most ...
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power To Barack Obama
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power To Barack Obama Peniel E. Joseph 9780465033133 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s is now remembered...
Rhyme Scheme
Rhyme Scheme Tracie Morris 9788487467493 Poetry Zasterle Press University of Pennsylvania Press Poetry. Book + CD. African American Studies. Rhyme Scheme calls out to Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie John...
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances Vershawn Ashanti Young 9780814334683 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black M...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics Cedric Johnson 9780816644780 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The Black P...
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz Stanley Crouch 9780465015122 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Stanley Crouch-MacArthur Genius” Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, ...
Deans and Truants
Deans and Truants Gene Andrew Jarrett 9780812239737 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need t...
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa Kadija Sesay 9781905233014 Poetry Flipped Eye Publishing Flipped Eye Publishing The anthology, Dance the Guns to Silence celebrates the life, str...
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold 9780195125634 Poetry Oxford University Press Oxford University Press For over two centuries, black poets have create...
Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook
Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook Haki Madhubuti 9780883782651 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Run Toward Fear offers readers a mixture of poems that challenge and cause both...
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity E. Patrick Johnson 9780822331544 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Performance artist and scholar E....
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition Fred Moten 9780816641000 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press In his controversial essay on white jazz mus...
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (Revised)
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (Revised) Wesley Brown and Amy Ling 9780892552771 Fiction Persea Books Persea Books The acclaimed multicultural fiction anthology, updated to include ...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
African American Literary Theory: A Reader
African American Literary Theory: A Reader Winston Napier 9780814758106 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to...
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience
Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience Manning Marable 9780231114769 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press What constitutes bl...
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez 9780820442617 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Defining Ourselves offers perspectives on b...
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385404 Fiction Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Read Why Fertile Ground is Such an Important Work Fertile Ground...
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems Willie Perdomo 9780393313833 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A first book of poems by one of the best new voices to emerge from the Nuyori...
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) John Henrik Clarke 9780374523541 Fiction Hill and Wang Macmillan Publishers The success of John Henrik Clarke’s American Negro Short Stories, fir...
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews D. H. Melhem 9780813108070 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky D.H. Melhem’s clear introductions and frank in...
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition In African American Literature
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition In African American Literature Gayl Jones 9780674530249 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press The powerful novelist here turns penetrating crit...
Nathan C. Heard
Nathan C. Heard NONE Nathan C. Heard (1936-2004) was a celebrated author, teacher, and actor. Known as a pioneer of “street literature,” he gained fame with his book Howard Street, written during his...
Kim McMillon
Kim McMillon NONE Kim McMillon, Ph.D., is an acclaimed author contributing to anthologies and encyclopedias on Black Arts and Power Movements. She produced a notable Black Arts Movement Conference an...
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor Kam Williams Book Review ‘Hokum is my chance to recognize and thank the black upper-, middle-, low-, and no-class clown for being more than comic...
Run Toward Fear
Run Toward Fear Rondall Brasher Book Review This book is actually done in two parts. The first is a collection of personal poems. The second part is forty pieces of advice for poets who wanted to k...
Duende
Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...
African American Review
African American Review Loading AAR African American Review - http://aar.slu.edu Office of Editorial Assistant Joe Weixlmann EditorHouston A. Baker Associate Editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Associate Ed...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Loading Selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best magazines of 1996 Vol. 3 No. 1 Fall 2000 Manthia Diawara Editor-in-Chief Barbara Lewis Managing Editor B...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Loading Black Renaissance Noire African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" AALBC.com Home � Back&...