The Reservoir

A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate.

“A lonely ex-financier stuck in his apartment during the Covid-19 pandemic becomes obsessed with the Central Park Reservoir and slowly goes mad.” —New York Times Book Review

“[Duchovny’s] novella The Reservoir, set in New York City, probes how pandemic isolation has changed us.” —Boston Globe

The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. W...