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Oxford:
New York Times: "Of Parties, Prose, and Football" by Dwight Garner
Travel and Leisure: "America's Coolest College Towns"
Garden and Gun: "Destination Oxford, Mississippi; The Little Easy No More" by Lisa Neumann Howorth
Los Angeles Times: "Oxford, Miss: The Center of William Faulkner's Cosmos" by David L. Ulin
"Oxford combines a southern lifestyle with the cosmopolitan flair of a college town."
- Money Magazine
"'Sophisticated Little Oxford' is waiting for you . . . what are you waiting for?"
- National Geographic Traveler
There are few greater pleasures than walking around Oxford square on a breezy afternoon, stopping to browse and drink a cup of coffee at Square Books."
- The Commercial Appeal
A few blocks away is Oxford's handsome and busy town square, which seems to hold the residential neighborhoods in its thrall through mass and a certain architectural gravity. The buildings around the square have an updated but still antiquated charm, with complicated brick cornices and a handful of galleries to shade passersby from the sun."
- Preservation Magazine
One of Oxford's great pleasures is strolling from the courthouse square down University Avenue and ending up, unsurprisingly, at the university. Here at last, you'll find the monumental—grand centers of research and athletics, including the Vaught-Hemingway Stadium ablaze with its digital billboard. We walked through The Grove, perhaps best known as a backdrop for epic pregame picnics on football Saturdays, and up to a loop road edged with historic buildings called The Circle.
- Preservation Magazine
“A popular poster in Oxford Mississippi, proclaims, ‘The Square is the Center of the Universe.’ After a visit to this downtown’s mecca of shops and restaurants, that statement is hard to deny.”
— Excerpt from Southern Living Magazine
