Readers recommendMusicThe time has come round again for this week's RR playlistAnother week, another Readers Recommend theme, regular as clockwork. Last week's call for songs about circles solicited some profoundly heady adventures into the subconscious and expressions of the natural patterns of our very existence. Andalucian composer Manuel de Falla's beautiful El Círculo Mágico (The Magic Circle) forms part of his 1915 ballet El Amor Brujo, when Gypsies dance in a circle round a campfire to banish ghosts.

New YorkWith six bookstores for less than 500 residents, the Catskills town of Hobart hopes to turn itself into the US analog of Hay-on-Wye in Wales Recently the writer and literary critic Ruth Franklin, author of the forthcoming biography of the writer Shirley Jackson, wanted to take her nine-year-old daughter out of the city for a while. She chose the unassuming Catskills town of Hobart, New York, as her destination.

Albert Einstein This article is more than 9 years oldAlbert Einstein archive reveals the genius, doubts and loves of scientistThis article is more than 9 years oldEarly note shows delight at birth of his daughter while later letters show fame was beginning to be a trialThe letter from the 22-year-old Albert Einstein revealed his delight at fathering a daughter, Lieserl, with his sweetheart, former classmate and future wife, Mileva Marić. How the new mother took the missive is less than clear.

David Williams's wines of the weekWineReviewThe difference between white and red is little more than skin deep - as these three delicious bottles proveTrivento Reserve White Malbec, Mendoza, Argentina 2020, £8.25, The Co-op Malbec is absurdly popular at the moment. According to the Co-op, sales were up by almost a third in the past year, meaning it’s even more fashionable in the UK than sauvignon blanc. Indeed the only thing standing between this all-conquering grape variety and total world domination, it seems, is habitual white-wine drinkers, who can’t get past the fact that malbec isn’t a white-wine grape.

TV reviewTelevisionReviewOne corpse, multiple suspects and countless chic accessories: this gloriously gloomy whodunnit tries one last – surely the last? – variation on odd-couple detectives Without wishing to get too Taggart about this, there’s been a murder. The body of energy company executive Clellan Coburn has been found in the woods outside Aberdeen, and he had just announced a business merger that would have meant his oil company switching to green energy.