In this week’s Underreported feature, African MCs TY and Oke, and Ben Herson of Nomadic Wax, tell us about a new movement of underground African hip-hop gaining ground in the US. Next, John Irving describes his new novel, the largely autobiographical Until I Find You. Then, John and Janet Pierson tell us about the year they spent screening free movies for the locals of a remote island in Fiji. And geneticist Sean Carroll explains some of the principles and findings of the new science of evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo Devo for short.
African Underground Hip-Hop
African MCs TY (UK/Nigeria) and Oke (Nigeria), and Ben Herson (the founder of the record label Nomadic Wax), discuss how African hip-hop is becoming an underground movement here in the US.
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Until I Find You
John Irving, author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, discusses his eleventh, and perhaps most personal, novel: Until I Find You.
John Irving will be reading from Until I Find You at Barnes & Noble, Union Square (Thursday, August 18 at 7PM. ...
John Irving will be reading from Until I Find You at Barnes & Noble, Union Square (Thursday, August 18 at 7PM. ...
Reel Paradise
John and Janet Pierson moved their family to a remote island in Fiji for a year in order to run a movie theater for the locals. They screened all the films for free, and discovered a new level of enthusiasm and appreciation for film from people who would otherwise never ...
Evo Devo
Sean Carroll is a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s one of the leading figures in the new science of evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo Devo. His new book Endless Forms Most Beautiful looks at how genes shape the development of biological diversity across species.
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