Here and Now: Current Readings for Writers

Now you can provide your freshman students with a collection of recently published essays from well-known publications on topics they are sure to find compelling. HERE AND NOW features 55 essays organized thematically around such provocative topics as reconsituted families, generational differences, career options, ethnic and gender identity, political correctness, entertainment, and other issues that define today’s campus life, American culture, and global society. What’s more, all these articles were published in respected publications like Time, Esquire, Working Woman, Harper’s Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, and Essence—none earlier than 1993! If, like most freshman, your students are curious and opinioned, eager to deal critically with social realities, then this is the collection for your class.