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Reviews July/August 2024
03/07/2024 | ReformMuslim limbo
ShaydaDirected by Noora NiasariCertificate 15, 117 minutesReleased 19 July
An Iranian woman, Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Holy Spider), is staying with her young daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) in a woman’s refuge house in Brisbane run by Joyce … Read More
Editorial: Politics
03/07/2024 | ReformI remember as a child in the 1970s, sitting unstrapped in the back seat of the car, with the radio playing the Today programme, asking my mum what the government was. She said it was a man who runs a … Read More
Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We were sitting in our garden when the sound of guitar-led hymns wafted over the fence’
03/07/2024 | ReformPaul Kerensa is living the outdoor life
The sun is high and the weather is… well, it’s British summertime, so I wouldn’t be so bold as to guess. But perhaps this time of year, the outside world beckons a little … Read More
On the pilgrim way: ‘A nightingale, its beak wide open, sang its long, complicated and beautiful song’
03/07/2024 | ReformSheila Maxey shares holiday photographs
This summer season seems the time for travellers’ tales and photos, and the internet means I am included. A granddaughter and her boyfriend, aged 19, are in southeast Asia for two months. They seem to … Read More
In search of Island Chapels
03/06/2024 | ReformDavid Gleed explores the spiritual draw of remote islands
Out there, on the horizon, islands beckon, they always do, even on seemingly uninviting, wet, murky days. There’s something mysterious and enchanting about an island, something to be discovered… And getting … Read More
Art in Focus: June 2024
03/06/2024 | ReformCaravaggioThe Seven Works of Mercy, 1606Oil on canvasNaples, Pio Monte della Misericordia
In an early episode of the Netflix series Ripley, Tom Ripley gazes enigmatically at Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy. The painting was commissioned as an altarpiece by an … Read More
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