Steven Poole writes words for books and newspapers, and music for films. You can send him an email.

Why is everyone so obsessed by food? How did we become a culture of infantile gluttons? My latest book, out now.

It's my book about political language in the era of the war on terror, that has its own website. There are a great many words over there.

It's my book about the aesthetics of videogames, and was also a column in Edge magazine, and a BBC TV documentary.

• Zugzwang
• Venus DeLillo
• Pandaemonium
• Night templar
• Rise of the machines
• Do you feel lucky?