Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

About The Author

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Island People (2016), Names of New York (2021), Nonstop Metropolis (2016), and, most recently, Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made (2026). His work appears regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among many other publications. Jelly-Schapiro teaches journalism at New York University and is Director of Publishing at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.

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Books by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter

By Frank Walter, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Hilton Als, Barbara Paca and Charlie Porter

Explore Frank Walter’s relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place.

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Chris Ofili: Paradise Lost

By Chris Ofili

Contributions by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

In 2017, Chris Ofili photographed chain-link fences throughout the island of Trinidad in order to explore notions of beauty, community, liberation, and constraint. This series of arresting images—“pocket photography,” as described by the artist—is the first body of photography ever published b...

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