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Alice Fishburn

Opinion and Analysis Editor

Alice Fishburn is Opinion and Analysis Editor. Previously she was deputy editor of FT Weekend and editor of the prize-winning FT Weekend Magazine.

Alice has also been involved in the creation and launch of Globetrotter and of the FT Weekend Festival. She came to the FT from the Times, where she was online comment editor and campaigns reporter.

Email Alice Fishburn @AliceFishburn  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
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    Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout — a small-town story with a big heart

    Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton finally meet in the author’s perfectly rendered world of Crosby, Maine

  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
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    What moving house does to your brain

    Even if your new home is within the same city, mental and emotional maps need to be completely redrawn

    Illustration of a mother and two children walking through their neighbourhood
  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Lunch with the FT
    Novelist Jennifer Egan: ‘It’s hard to write satire in America’

    The ‘Goon Squad’ author on the ‘mass psychosis’ of her homeland and the right to write about anything in the ‘greedy grab bag’ of fiction

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
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    Love, grief and horticultural consolations

    Gardening can sustain the ill, the dying and those who are left behind

    Illustration of a woman looking at violets
  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    FT MagazineParenting and families
    The kids aren’t alright — and neither are their parents

    As Omicron burnt through the population, children proved easy tinder. The silence from politicians is deafening

  • Friday, 25 December, 2020
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Alice Fishburn’s fantasy dinner: Moses, Muppets and masterpieces

    The FT Weekend Magazine editor takes over the Frick Collection for a gossipy Christmas feast

    Alice’s guests, from left: Edith Wharton; Moses; Shonda Rhimes; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; James Baldwin
  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    Recipes for success: London restaurants’ best meal kits for lockdown and beyond

    From adding the finishing touches to haute cuisine to rolling your own sushi — bring the capital’s top fine-dining to your kitchen table

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    ‘Glimmers of good living’: the FT’s London lockdown discoveries

    From ordering epicurean adventures to swimming in the Thames — via collecting cool jumpsuits — here’s how we got through it first time around

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Food & Drink
    Q&A: Who would come to your fantasy dinner party?

    Join our FT editors for a light-hearted discussion.

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss — short stories that ask big questions

    A powerful new collection from one of America’s great writers

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Help Yourself — three new stories by Curtis Sittenfeld

    A sharp collection of stories examines how quickly we judge ourselves and others

  • Monday, 17 December, 2018
    Books
    Podcast: Best books of 2018. Plus: Sally Rooney on sex, class and the internet

    We discuss the year’s best novels and non-fiction — as well as some old favourites — with Arifa Akbar and Alice Fishburn

  • Friday, 14 December, 2018
    Life & Arts
    What I learnt from a year of reading only books by women

    Alice Fishburn set herself a challenge for 2018 to only read female authors. Here’s what she discovered

  • Friday, 17 March, 2017
    Lunch with the FT
    Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe on millennial matchmaking

    The dating app entrepreneur on sexism in Silicon Valley and the ‘techiquette’ for finding love online

  • Friday, 27 February, 2015
    The Diary
    The Diary: Alice Fishburn

    FT Weekend Magazine’s deputy editor on the discerning nature of burglars, Britain’s bureaucracy and spotting Tom Stoppard watching his own play

  • Friday, 17 October, 2014
    FT Magazine
    Marie Stopes: 100 years of sex advice

    As a birth-control pioneer, the author of 1918’s ‘Married Love’ received thousands of letters from fans, critics and those in need of advice

    Marie Stopes in 1913
  • Friday, 1 August, 2014
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Shelf improvement

    In 2013, Nielsen data show we bought 323 million books. Many of them appear to be on my bedside table

    An illustration of a woman on top of a stack of books
  • Friday, 29 June, 2012
    FT Magazine
    A layer-cake of time: Crossrail’s archaeology

    London’s Crossrail project, one of Europe’s biggest engineering projects, is also the source of a spectacular array of archaeological finds

    Excavation work at the Limmo Peninsula site in east London, where a ship fragment was found
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