Avi Steinberg

Dec 26, 2024 | truthout.org | Avi Steinberg

Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation I recently entered an Israeli consulate and submitted papers to formally renounce my citizenship. It was an unseasonably warm fall day and office workers on break were lounging by the pond in Boston Common. The night before had seen a particularly gruesome series of aerial attacks by Israel on refugee tent camps in Gaza.

Dec 21, 2023 | nplusonemag.com | Avi Steinberg

The cops seemed to have been tipped off about the November 13 action at Chicago’s Ogilvie Transportation Center: they were seen setting up barricades even before it started. But the Chicago Police Department also seemed genuinely surprised by the size and nature of the action, and unprepared by the number of arrests that they’d need to make.

Nov 28, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Avi Steinberg |Laura Hughes |Alice Hemming |Nicola Slater

Kids will want to listen to this one again and again for creative inspiration. Steinberg playfully breaks the fourth wall to address a diverse cast of children depicted in digital cartoon art. The narrator explains that this is “a story no one has ever heard before” and adds, “I am not going to be the one to tell this story.” Gazing wide-eyed, the kids balk. “Wait, what?” “You’re not?’” two children ask in speech-balloon dialogue. “You are!” replies the narrator.

Nov 6, 2023 | newyorker.com | Avi Steinberg

“You can be proud of running the marathon, and I can be proud of remembering to set back the oven clock.”

Sep 20, 2023 | newyorker.com | Avi Steinberg

“I can’t believe complain-about-bugs-and-humidity season is almost over.”Cartoon by Avi Steinberg