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An issue on gender and powerDevorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women wantStella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debateFernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New YorkDebra Gwartney breaks her silenceOttessa Moshfegh gets what she wantsTaraShea Nesbit revisits her lost childhoodBrittany Newell deconstructs Paris Hilton's sex tapeLisa Wells on the process of revisiting traumaAlso: new fiction from: Tara Isabella Burton, Paul Dalla Rosa, Tommi Parrish, Sally Rooney, Miriam Toews, Zoe Whittall and Leni ZumasPlus: poetry by Momtaza Mehri and Fiona Benson And photoessays by Sébastien Lifshitz and Tomoko Sawada, introduced by Andrew McMillan and Sayaka Murata