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Max Lawton

Translator

Max Lawton is a translator, novelist, and musician. He received his BA in Russian Literature and Culture from Columbia University and his MPhil from Queen’s College, Oxford, where he wrote a dissertation comparing Céline and Dostoevsky. He has translated many books by Vladimir Sorokin. Max is also the author of two novels currently awaiting publication and is writing his doctoral dissertation on phenomenology and the twentieth-century novel at Columbia University, where he also teaches Russian. He is a member of four noise-music ensembles.

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Apr 6, 2026|7:00pm
Max Lawton on Antonio Moresco’s The Beginnings

Max Lawton and Sean Thor Conroe discuss the life and work of Antonio Moresco

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