BIRTH CANAL, by Dias Novita Wuri (Scribe, $30)
Should some fiction come with a trigger warning? I’m hesitant about this, possibly because I felt too much was made of the trigger warning that prefaced Brannavan Gnanalingam’s , an Ockham Book Awards-shortlisted novel about sexual violence in rugby culture, but there’s also atrauma, and it can serve as a useful heads-up for anyone likely to become dismayed by authors who choose to express the dark side of humanity.