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? New book, coming later this year…

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?