Animals insist on their otherness, their secretiveness, their sovereignty. For this withdrawal we trap and cage them, wrap their hides round our bodies, wear their feathers on our heads. If the animals withdraw from us, we keep trying to withdraw into them. At Hilobrow, I’ve been editing a series about animals, which has gathered a terrific assembly of contributors, including Lucy Sante, Vanessa Barry, Tom Nealon, Annie Nocenti, Charlie Mitchell, Chris Spurgeon, and Hilobrow’s own editor and guiding spirit, Joshua Glenn.