This issue sits squarely in Granta’s late-90s moment; internationalist, politically alert, and uneasy with the consolations provided to them by society.

Anchored by Richard Lloyd Parry’s reporting from Indonesia, What Young Men Do traces violence, masculinity, and power as lived fact. The writing is attentive to context, aftermath, and the limits of explanation on such complex concepts, lives, issues.

Surrounding pieces by Simon Armitage, Tim Parks, Todd McEwen, and Richard Ford broaden the register, moving across being serious without being portentous and curious about the world without pretending to be neutral.