Faith Hahn

That is, of course, more or less the rub: if the Xerox machine is somewhat of a troubling invention, everything about our modern-day computer-rich ecosystem is a thousand times worse. My phone syncs to my tablet syncs to my laptop; the value proposition of every device on my person is that it instantaneously and unquestioningly shares copies — of... See more

We already know that by ownership independents account for nearly half of the recorded music market. The reality is that the feeding frenzy in the independent sector is a sign of the majors’ weakness rather than their strength.

Streaming has shattered the barriers to market entry the majors created in the CD age. That trend will only continue.

The... See more

The Antitrust Division will hopefully respond with “No, your search engine was awesome, but it’s increasingly ad-filled crap. You’re too powerful, you’re too lazy, and America needs some real competition.”

In some ways, book reviewers, critics, book club hosts, readers, and even the writers themselves, are engaged in a long war against the idea of fiction itself, involving the reverse-engineering and geolocation of various hurts and harms in the psychology of the writer. We are, at least in America, a nation trained in the arts of literary analysis,... See more

Earlier this year, English National Opera were subject a small Twitter storm when somebody realized that the composer biographies on their website included a number of embarrassing errors: that Benjamin Britten—still alive—had written the music to Franco Zeffirelli’s film “Romeo and Juliet,” and that “the apple didn’t fall far from the tree” with... See more