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 S�bastien Lifshitz and Tomoko Sawada, introduced by Andrew McMillan and Sayaka Murata