Patrick Langley

At Goldsmiths CCA, the group’s darkly comic grotesqueries reflect an unsettling age  

A show at London’s Cabinet Gallery gives insight into the great writer’s most troubled period

‘It would be easy to cry to this tune, but difficult to dance to it’

A newly-published collection of the artist’s journals allows silenced voices to speak

Human playthings and disfigured dolls in the work of Jean-Marie Appriou, Veit Laurent Kurz, Kris Lemsalu and Athena Papadopoulos

The importance of satire in an era of Trump

Could online communication provide a new model for contemporary writing? Patrick Langley on two debut novels from George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin

The final instalment of Patrick Langley's digest of recent monster books: Patrick Ness’s, A Monster Calls

‘Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters’ – Paul Kingsnorth's Beast (2016)

Three beastly new novels. Part one: Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent

During his residency at Chisenhale Gallery, the artist focuses on the eerie blurring of traditional boundaries between labour and social interaction

A number of young artists such as Patrick Goddard, Marie Jacotey and Stuart Middleton are exploring the possibilites of the graphic novel