As if the landscape of modern dating isn’t depressing enough, a collection of love letters exchanged by journalist, playwright and philosopher Albert Camus and actress Maria Casarès from 1944 to 1959, published for the first time in English, offers a stark reminder of how far society has declined in matters of seduction and romance.

In 2026 daters can expect little more than “u up?”, where once upon a time it was “ … my heart ishellip;

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