Darton’s cultural history, Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York’s World Trade Center (Basic Books) became a New York Times bestseller.  In 2011, Basic Books reissued the original text of Divided We Stand, augmented by a new introduction and afterword. Darton’s critically acclaimed first novel Free City (W.W. Norton) was subsequently published in German and Spanish translations. In recent years, Darton has independently published a five-volume cultural memoir Notes of a New York Son, 1995-2007 as well as a novel, Orogene, and Beaky Chronicles, an illustrated collection of twelve animal fables.