Author interviews on contemporary hot topics

Literary media interviewed two authors whose work touches on much-discussed topics in today's politics.

The New York Times put its focus on Ailton Krenak, an Indigenous author from Brazil whose Ancestral Future and Ideas to Postpone the End of the World are bestsellers in his native country and also available in English.

Krenak's message has been to encourage humanity to look to the past for solutions to our environmental crises, versus expecting technological advances to save us.

NPR continued its "summer of love" theme, meanwhile, with Jonathan Rauch, author of several works including Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America.

Rauch takes us back well over a decade before the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide to how heterosexual and homosexual couples alike came to decide this right was worth fighting for.