Earlier this week when Google Plus announced changes to its name policy, I was quick to point out that what was being reported as the ability to create and use pseudonyms on the service was not what ...

Word is out that J.K. Rowling is coming out with a new book, the sequel to last year's The Cuckoo's Calling. Except, technically, it isn't her book at all. It was written by a man named Robert ...

Revealed after only three months, Rowling wanted to keep the pseudonym under wraps Following this week’s revelation that J.K. Rowling penned a crime thriller under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the ...

We were recently having one of our interminable discussions on the Identity Gang mailing list (this was the privacy vs. anonymity discussion which dates back, oh, dozens of years) when Oracle’s ...

Moviemakers dodged attention by using a pseudonym to throw audiences off their scent. The stealthy technique is used by blacklisted workers, embarrassed filmmakers who disown their motion pictures, or ...

I’ve long been suspicious of pseudonyms. Why, if writing is an art of communication, publish under another name? But John Wray’s recent piece on the New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog has made me think ...