The Talk of the TownComment, the Financial Page, and more stories from The New Yorker.<img src="http://feeds.newyorker.com/rss_views/talk.gif">Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.- August 25, 2008 The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn&8217;t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any&160;.&160;.&160;.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/09/01/080901ta_talk_collins Richard Rayner: Saving the trees in Beijing.- August 18, 2008 Kari Heli&246;vaara is the head of forest entomology at the University of Helsinki and the co-author of a standard text, entitled &8220;Insects and Pollution.&8221; A Finn, he has nonetheless spent a good deal of the past decade working in China. &8220;Control strategy&8221;--how to stop insects from killing trees&160;.&160;.&160;.http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/08/25/080825ta_talk_rayner |