Ecce Mon­strum, Jeremy Biles’s study of Georges Bataille, got a nice review by Tomasz Swo­boda over at H-Ideas recently. Here’s the upshot:

All in all, among recent stud­ies on Bataille, Biles’s book is the one that per­haps approaches best Bataille’s thought while propos­ing new inter­pre­ta­tions of his work. Indeed, read­ers who are not famil­iar with Bataille’s work will be rather well intro­duced to its main aspects. At the same time, spe­cial­ized read­ers will find in Biles’s book refor­mu­la­tions and rein­ter­pre­ta­tions that will likely become piv­otal in Batail­lean studies.

The book came out with Ford­ham Uni­ver­sity Press last year and is avail­able for pur­chase (at an awfully steep $65) here.