America Now: Short Essays on Current Issues

About this book

America Now makes it easy for you to bring brief thought-provoking essays on contemporary topics into your classroom with reliable pedagogy and an expert readers knowledge of what works for students. As series editor for The Best American Essays Robert Atwan constantly scours a wide range of publications bringing to America Now an unrivaled focus on todays best writing. Instructors tell us that their students want to respond to the essays in the book and they praise the high-quality reading and writing instruction critical thinking and reading questions and model student essays that help them do so. Over half of the readings in America Now are new to this edition and published since 2018 making it truly a book for todays composition course.