Spending the summer as a tour guide on a glacier.

A trip to the Iditarod.

Following the Yukon Quest, the Iditarod’s thousand-mile rival.

Behind the scenes at the Yukon Quest.

On Alaska’s mushing dynasties.

A profile of the Michael Jordan of mushing.

From Muncie to NBC.

A pre-Late Night profile.

Recounting an appearance on Letterman.

Memories of working on the show in the ’90s.

The sex scandal.

An exit interview.

After losing his sight at age 3, Michael May went on to become the first blind CIA agent, set a world record for downhill skiing and start a successful Silicon Valley company. Then he got the chance to see again.

One killer’s creepy obsession.

Daniel Kish had his eyes removed at age 1 because he was born with retinoblastoma, a cancer that attacks the retinas. But many people would never guess that he is blind.

The perspective-bending art of identical twins Trevor and Ryan Oakes.

Captain Iván Castro lost his vision in Iraq, but that didn’t stop him from running marathons.

The allure of invisibility.

How 3-D images affect the eye, plus proof that viewers have hated the technology since at least 1953.

How animals see.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth. Also, the greatest April Fools’ Day prank in the history of journalism.

Over six days in 1835, the New York Sun reported a stunning development—life had been found on the moon.

One of the most famous fabrications in journalism history, Janet Cooke’s Pulitzer-winning invention of an 8-year-old boy with a heroin habit.

See also: Bill Green’s 14,000-word post-mortem on “Jimmy’s World.”

Nearly 20 years after its publication, Cohn revealed that his story, which was the basis for Saturday Night Fever, was a fake—a fact that still isn’t noted on New York’s website.

The definitive profile of Stephen Glass, 25-year-old wunderkind reporter and serial fabricator.

See also: Sixteen years later, a former colleague confronts Glass.

The paper of record comes clean about Jayson Blair.

There is an island in the Florida Keys, the author said, where men fish for monkeys.

There was no island, no men, and no monkeys.

The Spanish police believed he was a missing American teen. So did the Texas family who had lost him three years prior. But he was an adult Frenchman. And he had done it before.

He joined the right clubs, married the right woman, worked the right jobs, bought the right art. But the life Clark Rockefeller created wasn’t his. Neither was his name.

For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer JT LeRoy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as JT LeRoy in public.

The hidden, humble beginnings of a New York City blueblood.

For years, Alan Young has made a living off what he says is his only skill: pretending to be a member of The Temptations.

The story of a young man who got to be a high school basketball star. Twice.

One man’s dream to turn America into a post-prohibition wine utopia.

Who would poison the vines of the tiny, centuries-old vineyard that produces what most agree is Burgundy’s finest, rarest, and most expensive wine?

Fred Franzia makes a lot of money selling really cheap wine.

The rare-wine world gets conned.

Investigating whether or not anyone can really tell them apart.

A profile of wine critic Robert Parker.

On wine’s sacred and profane history.