Steve Mentz writes about the ocean, literary culture, the blue humanities, and the history of narrative forms. He teaches Shakespeare, the environmental humanities, and eco-theory at St. John’s University in New York City. His most recent books are Ocean (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and Break Up the Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
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Swimming in the Anthropocene
Human bodies in deep water feel nature’s power and our own relative weakness. As seas rise, we should heed the swimmers.
