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An issue on gender and power Devorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women want Stella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debate Fernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New York Debra Gwartney breaks her silence Ottessa Moshfegh gets what she wants TaraShea Nesbit revisits her lost childhood Brittany Newell deconstructs Paris Hilton's sex tape Lisa Wells on the process of revisiting trauma Also: new fiction from: Tara Isabella Burton, Paul Dalla Rosa, Tommi Parrish, Sally Rooney, Miriam Toews, Zoe Whittall and Leni Zumas Plus: poetry by Momtaza Mehri and Fiona Benson And photoessays by Sbastien Lifshitz and Tomoko Sawada, introduced by Andrew McMillan and Sayaka Murata