Hello and welcome to Miss Translation, a semi-regular column about translation featuring reviews, previews, puzzles, and so on, written by me, Miss Translation, although you may also know me as Bela, a woman whose last name you’re scared of pronouncing. I changed it—you’re welcome. You know what we call that? Domestication. I translate from Russian and teach in the Translation Program at the University of Iowa. I have this dream job for either one more semester or one more year and then maybe never again, since Iowa is one of two undergraduate translation programs in the US and one of very few MFA translation programs. Thus, I have been forced to start a magazine column in pursuit of the real job that I want, a.k.a. the only way anyone I know actually supports themselves in this literary craft: Mrs . Translation. Or Mx.! I’m down for whatever. Please get in touch if you want to marry me or arrange any other kind of financial agreement in which I am the beneficiary.…