Writer's Block Magazine

Join the Writer’s Block Board

May 21, 2024

Writer’s Block Magazine is looking for fresh, enthusiastic and creative editorial board members! Do you like writing and editing? Do you have any journalistic aspirations? Then join the Writer’s Block editorial board! What/who is Writer’s Block?Writer’s Block Magazine is a student-run magazine at University of Amsterdam. We have an international readership and contributors from across…

Writer’s Block #50

November 17, 2023

by Digital Editions

Writer’s block is excited to finally publish the long awaited for fiftieth issue! Consider this a throwback to summertime as we approach winter. Also we would like to thank all the writers that contributed to this publication. We hope you have just as much joy reading this issue as we did creating it. If you…

Life is Grey

May 28, 2023

by Amy Larsen

Despite the ambiguities that my English Literature degree has encouraged me to seek out in poetry and novels: read between the lines, behind the sentence or even at a stretch, beyond the syllable, I have tended to look at life through a black and white lens. I have been known to favour arguments that clearly…

The Last of Us – Love and Humanity in a Post-Apocalyptic World

May 23, 2023

by Uncategorized

(Source: HBO) Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the events of The Last of Us. The HBO show The Last of Us has been taking the internet by storm, and I admit I’m definitely one of the enjoyers. After being hesitant to watch it because of my inability to enjoy horror and general distaste…

John Wick, Our 21st Century Sisyphus

May 11, 2023

by Arthur Mulder

Lego toy, by Nik (Includes spoilers for the John Wick-franchise) “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus The rule of action-movies is that immediate incentive trumps general motivation. When action star number 63 flails towards his goal in…