Suture

A Humanities & Social Sciences Journal

"When the cooling coagulant finally freezes Godzilla, suspending his monstrous body in rearing horror, the victorious military do not celebrate his annihilation. Instead, they solemnly proclaim that Godzilla 'has been completely silenced' (Shin Godzilla 1:48:44). This rendering to silence presupposes that Godzilla had been speaking prior to this moment, that his wake of colossal destruction represents a decipherable language. If so, what is Godzilla's language?"

Morgan Hodorowski '26, "The Language of Godzilla," Issue XII

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Featuring:

Katherine Adee '27

Santiago de Compostela: The Inner Path of an External Pilgrimage

James Luce ’26

A Rooted Relic of Racism: Charleston’s Monument to John C. Calhoun

Sami Flaherty ’27

Plato, Social Media, and the Vicious Cycle of Eikasia and Belief

Alexandra Kropaneva ’25

Power and Performance: The Intricacies of Joan of Arc’s Gendered Identity

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About Us

Suture is a student-run, peer-edited academic journal associated with Hamilton College. We're grounded in the belief that access to incisive, original criticism is essential to anyone’s development as a reader, scholar, and appreciator of the creative arts and humanities.

Suture is published twice a year, at the end of the fall and spring semesters.

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Our History

Suture was founded in the spring of 2018 after the termination of FORTY-THREE NORTH, a journal affiliated with Hamilton's now-dissolved Department of Comparative Literature. As our founders wrote in our first issue, "That publication––an interdisciplinary journal made to 'showcase the best critical writing of Hamilton students in the Humanities and the Arts'––is the spiritual and material predecessor to SUTURE, which we hope might fill the clever, very neat vacuum that its dissolution left behind."