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:

Susian Nie ’26

Are Self-Compassionate People More Likely to Seek Professional Psychological Help For Mental Health Concerns?

Qinxian Bonnie Ran ’26

Canton and Cantonese in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

Qinxian Bonnie Ran ’26

On Becoming “Modern Literary Women” in George Gissing’s Novel New Grub Street

Zerui “Chris” Zhu ’28

Maps Drawn in Fear: The Black Death as a Tracer of Mediterranean Connectivity

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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."