BooksAn Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok StarJacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.By Katy WaldmanAugust 3, 2026Most of Harpman’s work that has been translated into English circles feelings of entrapment, disorientation, and exile.Photograph by Sophie Bassouls / GettySave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyGo to any brick-and-mortar bookstore and you’ll probably see at least one table dedicated to titles that “pop on BookTok.” Since around 2020, the literary precinct of the social-media platform TikTok seems to have usurped older marketing and...
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