About
WORK EXPERIENCE
Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to publish all of his untranslated works in English. Apart from what has already been published, three more books are forthcoming from NYRB Classics and four more are forthcoming from Dalkey Archive. Max is also currently working on translations of works by Michael Lentz, Antonio Moresco, Stefano D’Arrigo, Alberto Laiseca, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eduard Limonov, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Max is the author of two novels, The Abode and Progress, as well as a collection of short stories, The World. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, Harper’s, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Joyland. He lives in Los Angeles, where, when he isn’t writing, he plays heavy metal and noise music.
Max’s original fiction is represented by James Willis of Watson Little.
PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
- Beyond the Zero with Michael Lentz – May 2025
- Beyond the Zero with Matthias Friedrich – November 2024
- Minor Lits interview – May 2024
- Prospect Magazine profile – April 2024
- Joy Williams on Sorokin 2 – April 2024
- Financial Times – March 2024
- Unburied Books – March 2024
- Beyond the Zero 3 – March 2024
- New York Times Review of Blue Lard – February 2024
- Biblioklept 2 – February 2024
- The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast – October 2023
- Harshaneeyam Podcast – October 2023
- Interview with Turkish press about Oğuz Atay controversy – August 2023
- Our Struggle Podcast – April 2023
- Beyond the Zero 2 – April 2023
- Sorokin in America with Evgenia and Yasha Levine – February 2023
- Max on the Sorokin Book Tour – November 2022
- Thus Spake Daniel Kalder Podcast – November 2022
- The New Republic on Sorokin – November 2022
- Blake Butler on Telluria – September 2022
- Joy Williams on Sorokin 1 – September 2022
- The Nation on Sorokin – September 2022
- TLS on Telluria – August 2022
- Words Without Borders on Sorokin – August 2022
- Will Self on Sorokin – June 2022
- New York Times with Sorokin – June 2022
- Harper’s on Sorokin – May 2022
- The Untranslated – March 2022
- The Guardian – Translation of Vladimir Sorokin – February 2022
- Biblioklept 1 – February 2022
- Beyond the Zero 1 – December 2021
PUBLISHED FICTION
- “Albion is kinda bait tho…”
- “Tess 2”
- “British Broadcasting”
- “u wanna be an angel?”
- “North Caldwell”
- “Keto and Kenosis”
- Russian translation of “u wanna be an angel?”
- Russian translation of “Keto and Kenosis”
- German translation of “The Man Who Signed too Much”, Part 1 and Part 2