Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia.
He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on Jewish-American authors.
It was based on the archives at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin and interviews with Uris's family.
Nadel saw Uris's work as attacking antisemitism with a fictional heroic Jewish past, but broadening the appeal to a non-Jewish readership.
[9]:4 Nadel did note the shared impact of the concept of exodus on Jews and on Joyce, a voluntary exile from an Ireland then under the dominion of England.
It also tried to place Mamet's prolific output as an artist in a sociobiographical context, in an expanding arc from immediate family to Euro-American cultural influence.
Nadel co-edited The Victorian Muse, Gertrude Stein, The Making of Literature and a collection of previously unpublished Ezra Pound letters.
[14] He is concerned that the briefer modes of communication encouraged by social networking media such as Twitter may change how we capture and narrate others' lives.