Writer's Block Magazine

Writer’s Block Happenings: March

March 20, 2015

Exam week is coming up, so we thought you all could use some good advice on what to do in those delightful free days after. Or perhaps you could use a little outing this weekend to cool your nerves a bit? Regardless, you know the drill: here’s another edition of all the grooviest happenings in…

Passionately Curious – An Interstaller Investigation

March 19, 2015

by Film, Passionately Curious, Paul Hofma, Reviews

As you may well know by now, I’m a huge fan of the natural sciences. Usually, I use the space allotted to me here to try and explain some interesting bit of science in more simple terms, so that those of us who aren’t as big on the giant formulas and heavy textbooks can…

In Defense of Young Adult

March 16, 2015

by Books, Essay, Judith Kroon, Literature

Next to my time as a student of English literature and final editor at Writer’s Block, I spend a lot of my time running a book review blog – or more specifically, running a book review blog that is mainly focused on young adult fiction. Usually, when I mention this to people, they give me…

Hitchens and Titus – Gravitas and Levity

March 12, 2015

by Jules Schlicher, WB Column

I once read that stand-up comedians nowadays fulfil a similar job as journalists, as a result of journalism becoming more concerned with commentary and opinion than with reporting. Both crafts, in any case, serve a public goal. Two of my favourite public servants in those crafts are Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Titus. I can read…

A Smokey Haze: A Review of Inherent Vice

March 8, 2015

by Film, Isabel Harlaar, Reviews

In 1970, Doc Sportello, a private investigator with a soft spot for pot smoking, receives a visit from his former girlfriend Shasta Fay Hepworth. As it turns out she wants him to help her out with a plot to kidnap her current boyfriend, real estate magnate Mickey Wolfmann, which Wolfmann’s wife and her boyfriend have…