Books, Arts & Manners: Strange? Just Us

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson (Houghton Mifflin, 406 pp., $24.95)

THIS BOOK was billed as the Book of Revelation about the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill imbroglio. Strange Justice is based, the authors claim, on “hundreds of interviews and scores of never-before-seen documents.” As if brought to us by Indiana Jones, the project has survived “a family death, a marriage, a birth, two cross-country moves, an earthquake, a fire, and a flood.”