Writer's Block Magazine

Das Mag vs. Bol.com

April 9, 2016

The Love-Hate Relationship between Publishers and Online Book Sales On March 31st, the Dutch book world was shocked when online sales giant Bol.com removed all of publishing house Das Mag’s books from its website. The reason, according to Das Mag, is that the publisher refused Bol.com’s new “collaboration contract”, which states that the popular webshop…

Passionately Curious: Let There Be Light! And He Saw That It Was Weird.

April 5, 2016

by Passionately Curious, Paul Hofma, WB Column

Wait, what’s this? This strange science-y series that was going on last year is back? Well… not quite, just a one-shot for now! Still, there’s so much awesome stuff left to talk about! Take, for example, the weirdness that is light. Now, I’ve already gone into far too much detail on some of the…

City Living – Shout-out to Boredom

April 2, 2016

by David Kleinsteuber, WB Column

How can we appreciate the gift horse? If you are somewhat like me, large empty slots in your schedule often make you feel restless and guilty. The argument is as follows. This is Amsterdam, and there are opportunities left and right. There are extra courses to take, debate clubs to join, sports to thrive…

The Success of The Bridge

March 25, 2016

by Judith Kroon, Reviews, WB Column

The first time I wrote an article for Writer’s Block I talked about my love for Scandinavian television. There is something about Swedish and Danish crime shows, especially, that makes them much more thrilling than any of their American or British counterparts – at least as far as I have seen so far. After…

Experiencing That Dragon, Cancer

March 22, 2016

by Jules Schlicher, Reviews, WB Column

I put off writing this for a long time, which is unusual for a text about a video game. Then again, I put off playing that videogame for an even longer time, because I was afraid of playing it. Now I’m putting off actually introducing it… I’m writing to you today about That Dragon, Cancer,…