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’s debut novel Progress is coming out with Verso in 2027. 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.