Writer's Block Magazine

Books to Read To Help You Deal with Death, A Little Bit

June 1, 2015

by Books, Tessel Rijneveldshoek, WB Column

When I was a kid, I was terrified of death, which was slightly peculiar, as the topic of death was not an unfamiliar one in my family. My mother is a pastor and besides church services and weddings, she often leads funeral services, about which she shares stories often enough. On the other hand, that…

Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?

May 28, 2015

by Passionately Curious, Paul Hofma

What do you mean, “not that kind of evolution”? I am a scientist, and a fairly broadly educated one at that, and so I can have a tendency to forget that a lot of things I take for granted are, in reality, quite complicated for most of us. Like, you know, quantum mechanics. Or much…

A Letter to Barlaeus and Vossius

May 25, 2015

by Ilona Roesli, WB Column

28 April, 2015 Dear Casparus and Gerardus, I wish I could have been there with you, seventeenth-century’s chillings. Cursing every fucking Newtonian number with theological twaddle. Who would have thought your legacy to be the death of the polymath? In this sped-up system we call ideology, covered with a thick layer of dust, anti-heroes…

Bike Eulogy

May 21, 2015

by Phoebe Eccles, WB Column

To those of you who were born and bred in the land of Nether, I imagine that the bicycle appears as everyday an object as your kettle or thumb: a precious tool, but not one that inspires the poetry of the muses. However, to a humble Londoner like myself, (whose experiences of bikes before arriving…

Writer’s Block #25

May 19, 2015

by Digital Editions, News

With great pride (and a tinge of sadness) we bring to you our final Writer’s Block issue for this academic year: Writer’s Block #25. And of course, being an anniversary issue, it features a lot of cake. So go ahead, dive on in! Free cake guaranteed!* Click here for the online version of WB #25.…