Milcho Manchevski has written and directed the feature films Before the Rain (nominated for an Academy Award and winner of over 30 film awards, including the Golden Lion for Best Film), Dust, Shadows, and Mothers, and over 50 short forms, including Tennessee for the TV series Arrested Development. He has also been a director on HBO's The Wire. His fiction, essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, and Pravda, among other publications. He has authored a (very small) book of fiction, The Ghost of...