The New York Times – Fernanda Eberstadt: Readers of The Long Song will find little here of the maddened grief of Toni Morrison's Beloved or the deep melancholy of Edward P. Jones's Known World. Levy's novelistic defense against evil and injustice is her humane sense of comedy. In The Long Song, she has painted a vivid and persuasive portrait of Jamaican slave society, a society that succeeded with bravery, style and strategic patience both to outsmart its oppressors and to plant the seeds of what is today a culture celebrated worldwide.