"[14] Marlon James, Man Booker Prize winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, said that, while "many have tried … to get hold of, in its entirety, the volatile, beautiful, relentlessly shifting Caribbean … nobody has succeeded as dazzlingly.
[18] Maria Popova, on brainpickings.org, wrote that the atlas's maps “reveal the nature of all cities as functions of human intention with its always dual and often dueling capacities for good and evil, for revolution and repression, for power and prejudice, for creation and destruction.
"[19] In April 2017, the Municipal Art Society awarded Nonstop Metropolis the Brendan Gill Prize, granted annually "to the creator of a specific work—a book, essay, musical composition, play, painting, sculpture, architectural design, film or choreographic piece—that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City.
As a journalist, Jelly-Schapiro has covered topics including the changing politics of Cuba, the music of Bob Marley, the history of phonography, and the novels of Paule Marshall.
[31] He has also published interviews with cultural figures including the musicians Harry Belafonte, Lady Saw, and RZA; filmmakers John Akomfrah and Joshua Oppenheimer; the painter Peter Doig; and the writers Geoff Dyer and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
[46] Jelly-Schapiro served as co-editor of POTÒPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince (2021), a landmark survey of Haitian art published by Pioneer Works Press.