By Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022)
Novelist and poet Joshua Hren’s latest work, Infinite Regress, pits the existentialist’s nihilism against the believer’s grip on redemption and salvation.
Infinite Regress follows Blake Yourrick, who is rebuilding his life after accumulating a staggering educational debt. The name Yourrick plays on the “poor Yorick” character in Hamlet, but while Shakespeare’s Yorick is remembered as a man of “infinite…