Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Biography

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World (Knopf, 2016), and the coeditor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (California, 2016). He has written for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, Harper’s, the Believer, Artforum, and the Nation, among many other publications. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from UC Berkeley.

See Work

#VQRTRUESTORY / Summer 2017

Neon Havana

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro ,  Photography by Mirissa Neff
NOTES TO SELF / Winter 2017

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro & Rebecca Solnit’s Notes to Self

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Rebecca Solnit ,  Photography by Alex Welsh

Of all American cities, New York is perhaps the most visually iconic. Even its public transportation is embedded in the national imagination, with arguably more people having seen the map of its subway system than maps of their own...

Photograph by Alex Welsh